نشریه مطالعات معنوی
پیاپی 19-20 (بهار و تابستان 1395)

What is yoga? Is it Sport, religion, spiritual tradition, mysticism or psychology technique? In this paper, the Truth of Yoga has been investigated based on the Yoga Sutra text. Its relationship with Hinduism, and its goals and effects has also been studied. Yoga is a way to connect with the intelligent forces that are present in nature and make Yogi fantastic and powerful to do work.

Although Sai Baba tries to see the people of the world as God's manifestations, with the words "love", "God", "divinity," and "man", but the interpretations that he uses, such as "the image of divinity", "love is God, and God is love" and also according to his total teachings show that he has not been able to express the supreme notion of love in the way of Islamic mysticism. He is more impressed with teachings of Hinduism and Yoga than Islam. Instead of explaining the true love or divine love, Sai Baba has surrendered his words to apparent virtual love in the form of mere human beings, such as respect and friendship of all human beings in the world. This kind of love is in fact derived from the emotions and human excitement which consists of physical and social sentiment and is often considered as a lust.

The need to spirituality, with an enlightened look, is an important factor in the emergence of new mystic movements in human societies. In other words, the disgust from materialism and the fervor or the thirst for humanity among the people on the one hand, and the utilitarian motives of some movements on the other hand, has serious contribution to the development of false and deviant mysticism. In this regard, the cosmic mysticism has been able to influence many of enlightened thinkers and educated people with diverse and evil intentions. The logical analysis and correct critique of this movement, in accordance with the teachings and Nahjol Balagh, can prevent the development of this deviant movement. In this article, first, the words of the founder of cosmic mysticism are expressed and then, referring to the words of Imam Ali (as), as the founder of Islamic mysticism, are analyzed with a critical-comparative approach. This article has been able to observe the deviation of cosmic mysticism, explaining the components of Islamic mysticism in accordance with the teachings of Nahj al-Balaghah, such as the possibility of recognizing God, the place of divine attributes, resurrection, Satan and the necessity of escaping from him.

Love is the most important thing in Molavi's mysticism and Krishnamurti's Thoughts. Rumi and Krishna are common in some cases and they are different in some cases about characteristics of love. The greatest difference is that the God's love has a lot of appearances in Molavi's mysticism to the extent that love without God is not love at all, while in Krishnamurti's Thoughts God's love has the least effect.

Reincarnation means the transfer of the human soul from one body to another, after the collapse of the first body, which takes place without the distance between them. The source of belief in reincarnation is the disbelief of resurrection. Those who do not believe in resurrection, or have no perfect understanding from it, will revert to reincarnation. The mysticism of the Circle is among the spiritual movements, although it claims to provide a reading of Islamic mysticism, but believes in reincarnation. In this article, we examine reincarnation from the perspective of the mysticism of the Circle.