By Rumi
Began in 1262 advert, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is believed to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. because the non secular masterpiece of the Persian Sufi culture, it teaches find out how to growth to the final word objective of the Sufi course - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was once a poet and a mystic, yet he was once first a instructor; in those verses he attracts the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the trail to divine love throughout the removal of self-regard and worldly wishes. Drawing on assorted resources from bawdy stories and fables to tales of the prophet Mohammed, those verses are short in expression but copious in that means.
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It is like requiring, for example, that before we accept a prediction about economic possibilities we want to know that the arithmetical calculations used in developing the prediction have been carried out correctly. In the ideal case, then, the scientist observes a certain group of phenomena that interests him and then comes up with a new concept which links all of these observations together, explains them in a simplified way. Some data may, for logical reasons, be considered to not fall under the heading of this theory.
There are two general classes of difficulties: general methodological problems stemming from the inherent nature of some d-ASCs, and those concerned with personal perils to the investigator. I shall dis- 48 TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGIES cuss state-related problems first and deal with personal perils in the next section. The first important problem in the proposed development of state-specific sciences is the "obvious" perception of the truth. Many times in d-ASCs, one's experience is that one is obviously and lucidly directly experiencing The Truth, with total certainty and no questions at all.
Others may be unique to particular d-ASCs. There are two general classes of difficulties: general methodological problems stemming from the inherent nature of some d-ASCs, and those concerned with personal perils to the investigator. I shall dis- 48 TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGIES cuss state-related problems first and deal with personal perils in the next section. The first important problem in the proposed development of state-specific sciences is the "obvious" perception of the truth. Many times in d-ASCs, one's experience is that one is obviously and lucidly directly experiencing The Truth, with total certainty and no questions at all.