Perfect Master
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The term Perfect Master has different meanings and connotations in various religions and movements, mainly denoting high spiritual mastery.
- The Ismailis call their perfect spiritual master Murshid-i-Kamil (in Persian).[1]
- Meher Baba equated Perfect Master with sadguru (Vedanta) and qutub (Sufism). [2]
- In the Masonic fraternity the Scottish Rite, a Perfect Master is the title of the 5th rank of the 33rd degrees.[3]
- In the Divine Light Mission, Perfect Master was a title given to Guru Maharaj Ji (Prem Rawat),[4] and his father, Hans Ji Maharaj.[5]
- In Sikhism, the Perfect Master is called pūran Parmesar[6]
- In Sufism, a Perfect Master or Qutub (literally, pole, tower, lighthouse) is the shaykh who provides a focus for spiritual teachings.[7]
- In Surat Shabd Yoga, Sant Mat and Advait Mat the living Perfect Master is considered the path to God-realization.[8]
- In Tibetan Buddhism ,the perfect master is the one that achieved Buddhahood and who is "thoroughly conversant with the noble truth of self-realisation".[9]
- In Vedanta, the Perfect Master is called a Satguru or Sadguru.
[edit] References
- ^ Daftary, Farhad. The Isma'Ilis: Their History and Doctrines, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-42974-9
- ^ God Speaks, The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose, Meher Baba, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1973, Sec. Ed. p. 150, ISBN 978-0-915828-02-9
- ^ Pike, Albert, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1874), pp.114-118, Masonic Publishing Company
- ^ Aldridge, Alan (2007). Religion in the Contemporary World. Cambridge, UK: Polity, p.58.
- ^ Melton, Gordon J. Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, (1986), pp.141-2 Garland Publishing, ISBN 0-8240-9036-5
- ^ Guru Arjan Dev, Ādi Granth 209, M
- ^ Ahmed, Nazeer. Islam in Global History: From the Death of Prophet Muhammed to the First World War, Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 0-7388-5966-4
- ^ Lewis, James R. Seeking the Light, p.62. Mandeville Press, ISBN 0-914829-42-4
- ^ Goddard, D. A Buddhist Bible, Beacon Press; Reprint edition (April 1, 1994), ISBN 0-8070-5911-0
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