Transcendent Unity of Religions
In this video Frithjof Schuon speaks about his celebrated work The Transcendent Unity of Religions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcnNTB-QXDs
In this video Frithjof Schuon speaks about his celebrated work The Transcendent Unity of Religions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcnNTB-QXDs
Frithjof Schuon was a Sufi master and metaphysician and the chief exponent of the perennialist school of comparative religion. His approach toward truth is through the path of knowledge, similar to Jnana Yoga in Hinduism. In this short video he explains the relationship between religion and its esoteric dimension. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-jodOB6vVQ
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