The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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There was a mureed learning from a murshid the lesson of resignation, and the simple mureed, thinking of this subject, was walking when a mad elephant was coming from the other side. As this mureed was going in the thought of resignation, he stayed in the midst of the road. There was a wise man who told him to go away, but he would not because he was resigning to the elephant, until he was pushed away by the strength of the elephant. They brought him to his murshid who asked him: "How are you hurt so much?" He answered that he was practicing resignation. The murshid said: "But was not there anybody who told you to go away?" "Yes", he answered, "but I would not listen". "But", said the murshid, "why did not you resign to that person?"


 
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