The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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If power were the aim of life, the most powerful nations should be the happiest. Is this so? Some think that pleasure is the aim of life, to eat, drink, and make merry, for tomorrow we die. This is every person's idea when he finished his school education. "Let us be gay and merry, for tomorrow we may be dead." But he can never be satisfied. If today we go to a cafe, tomorrow we want to go to a much grander restaurant. If today we go in the bus, tomorrow we want a motorcar of our own. We want all the theaters, all the restaurants, to amuse ourselves in. And who has the health for all this enjoyment, or his pocket always full? The kings, the rich people, fail. How short a time the pleasure lasts. It is not possible that something so short, so imperfect, should be the aim of God.


 
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