The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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He got a lesson from this and he said, "Nothing doing in this direction. Now I must go somewhere else to find great drunkards." And the people in the city gave him two or three names of well-known drunkards and he went there. He did not find any bottles, any drink, nor anything. And he said to them, "I have heard your names. Everybody talks about you; you are great drunkards. But there are no bottles; what are you drinking?" They said, "All the money we had was spent in drinking. No money is left. We have now some snakes. When we want to drink we let the snakes bite us; that gives us a kind of intoxication. If you like we will bring a snake for you." And he ran away and never came near them again. That gave him another lesson.


 
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