A comparative study of “Self examination or self knowing” from the viewpoint of Rumi and Shankara

Abstract

Although the two great mystics of Islam and Hinduism (Rumi and Shankara) have separate origins and developed in a different cultural atmosphere and their teachings are in some ways different from each other, they have also been very similar. This affinity And similarity can be seen in their mysticism. Due to the similarities and similarities between the Hindu school and the Masnavi, the study of the issue of unity between man and God is of particular importance in both schools. . Vedanta is the most complete and most mundane Hindu school that represents the teachings of the Upanishads and is based on the theory of the unity of existence and the main points raised in it are attention to the ultimate and divine truth. Shankara, as one of the great scholars and commentators of this school of aspirations the monotheism expanded the Upanishads and established the beliefs of Brahmasotra and considered the basis of all the realities of the world as Brahman. (India's Philosophical Religions and Schools, 2-781). In his view, Brahman's knowledge is to discover the pure analogy of Atman and Brahman, and the infinite Brahman comes from the illusion of relativity, and to the fourfold, the awakening world, the dream world, for example, the deep sleep world and his attitude to Atman. These determinations in the world of minerals are in the form of five determinations, namely, the corners of the food, the cornerstone, the cortex of the mind and the cortex and they create a hide that prevents everyone from seeing the inner light. This ignorance and ignorance in the great world appear as a force in the world and in the world of illusion and in the world of knowledge as ignorance and ignorance. (Ibid, 6-785). In Islamic mysticism, Rumi, in his works, addresses the issue of God and soul and importance an affiliate and a lover and lover alliance.