{"id":5956,"date":"2011-06-08T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2011-06-08T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:31:00","slug":"intellectual-mysticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5956","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Mysticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cm-n9wFZMiE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Intellectual Love or <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Amor Intellectualis <\/span>is said to be the greatest quality. This quality is called <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Vibhakthi<\/span> in Sanskrit. The mysticism which deals with <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Vibhakti<\/span> is called Intellectual Mysticism.<\/p>\n<p>We find many parallels in Walt Whitman and the poet Melpathur ( of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Narayaneeyam<\/span> fame ).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Vibhakti<\/span> is Vedantic bhakti. The poet Melpathur was a great scholar in all the twelve sciences of Wisdom and he was a made poet like Milton. He had lived laborious days in mastering the twelve positive sciences &#8211; six auxiliary and six main &#8211; and he had consecrated himself to the Divine. He was the Milton of India ! He was a philosopher,scholar, poet and astrologer. <\/p>\n<p>The Absolute Self of transcendental philosophy is the actual Godhead and the philosopher knows that Thee is Actual Me !<\/p>\n<p>Walt Whitman said<\/p>\n<p>I shrivel at the thought of Self<br \/>At Nature and Her wonders, Space, Time and Death<br \/>Then I turn to Thee, O Actual Me !<br \/>Lo Thou gently masterest the orbs<br \/>Thou matest with Time, smilest content with Death<br \/>And fillest swellest the vastnesses of Space !<\/p>\n<p>Melpathur said more or the less the same thing !<\/p>\n<p>In reality I am Thee<br \/>For me no bondage<br \/>Nor liberation eternal<br \/>As all this is illumined<br \/>In Universal Mind<br \/>Mind binds, Mind liberates<br \/>I see Universe thru Mind<br \/>The beginingless Nescience<br \/>Binds Soul to body<br \/>I the Self am unbound<br \/>I am that I am !<br \/>As to a man in waking<br \/>Dream appears unreal<br \/>So also is waking state<br \/>Unreal in Transcendence !<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/p>\n<p>Yadartha syath thvath mayaiva hi<br \/>Mama na Vibho vastavo bandha moksho<br \/>Maya Avidya Thanubhyam <br \/>Thava hi virachitho<br \/>Swapna bodho vapau Thau !<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intellectual Love or Amor Intellectualis is said to be the greatest quality. This quality is called Vibhakthi in Sanskrit. The mysticism which deals with Vibhakti is called Intellectual Mysticism. We find many parallels in Walt Whitman and the poet Melpathur ( of Narayaneeyam fame ). Vibhakti is Vedantic bhakti. The poet Melpathur was a great &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intellectual Mysticism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}