A critical view on J. Krishnamurti's spiritual pluralism regarding to Islamic mysticism

This paper aims to survey spiritual pluralism in Islamic mysticism with a descriptive-analytic method having a comparative study of spiritual pluralism in Krishnamurti's discourse with Islamic mysticism. Krishnamurti has spoken of spiritual pluralism and the attainment of ultimate and transcendent truth. In the imagination of pluralism as well as the ultimate truth he's been caught in a paradox. He accepts pluralism as a plurality of esoteric experiences on the one hand, and at the same time he considers that the meditation is the only appropriate way for receiving to the transcendent and ultimate truth. He has spoken of reaching to the ultimate truth, but in some respects has reduced it to a subjective and imaginary matter. He denies any transcendent sacred thing as objective and considers the ultimate goal as a feeling of joy and happiness. In contrast, Islamic mysticism acknowledges all spiritual experience, but only one complete spiritual experience. Islamic mysticism has accepted the ultimate truth as an objective and has considered the orders of divine prophets to be the best way for receiving to it. Religious teachings are consistent with the inclusiveness of spiritual experiences, not with monopoly and pluralism. According to this paper, Islamic mysticism differs from Krishnamurti's mysticism, both in the image of the ultimate truth and in the way it is attained.