The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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In the beginning every soul has faith. Then how is it that man loses this quality which nature has bestowed on him? He loses it by the knowledge of names and forms. As he grows he covers up his faith with the knowledge of names and forms, calling that "learning." At every step in his progress towards knowledge he compares things and considers some things better than others, saying of one thing, "This is true", of another, "This is false", "That is what I can believe and rely upon", and "This is what I cannot believe and rely upon." The one thing he calls true, the other false; but in reality neither is true or false. It is only at the beginning of knowledge that man passes through this stage. Later, when a person has raised himself above ordinary knowledge, he arrives at a stage when he is able to say, "All that I have called true is not true, and all that I have called false is not false." He finds that whatever difference there is, is only a difference of comparison. This point of view is difficult and vague, and everybody does not perceive it.


 
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