Both Mathnawi Manawi and the ancient Upanishads emphasize achieving transcendental, intuitive knowledge as a deeper truth. Mathnawi outlines levels of knowledge from sensory to intellectual to intuitive, the latter enabling discovery of the true self. The Upanishads describe similar levels as Pravidia and Apravidia, with the ultimate goal being intuitive knowledge and realization of the true Atman. This descriptive-analytical research examines these two mystical texts to explain the necessity of intuitive knowledge and how to reach it.
Religion has been central to human life, and theorists like Mircea Eliade and Carl Jung offer distinct perspectives. Eliade, using a phenomenological approach, defines religion as the experience of the sacred, which manifests through symbols and rituals across cultures, especially primitive and Asian ones. He views myth as a narrative of sacred history that models religious practices and reveals the origin of religion. Jung, from analytical psychology, links religion to archetypes in the collective unconscious, seeing myth and symbol as the language of the subconscious. He considers God an archetype and argues that religion and myth interact to preserve each other. Both thinkers agree on the importance of myth and symbol, but Eliade focuses on the sacred as a universal phenomenon, while Jung emphasizes psychological structures.