Monday, June 29, 2009

Mohammad, the Guru

In the Hindu parlance, we can say that Mohammad was a Guru. He meditated in the caves, discovered God within himself and expressed that discovery in the imagery of his times. However, he never taught meditation as the path to self-discovery and his imagery got trapped in the Jewish prophetic tradition and hence God became an external phenomenon in Islam also. Only the Sufis sought to discover God within.

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