The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan      

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Volume

Sayings

Social Gathekas

Religious Gathekas

The Message Papers

The Healing Papers

Vol. 1, The Way of Illumination

Vol. 1, The Inner Life

Vol. 1, The Soul, Whence And Whither?

Vol. 1, The Purpose of Life

Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound and Music

Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound

Vol. 2, Cosmic Language

Vol. 2, The Power of the Word

Vol. 3, Education

Vol. 3, Life's Creative Forces: Rasa Shastra

Vol. 3, Character and Personality

Vol. 4, Healing And The Mind World

Vol. 4, Mental Purification

Vol. 4, The Mind-World

Vol. 5, A Sufi Message Of Spiritual Liberty

Vol. 5, Aqibat, Life After Death

Vol. 5, The Phenomenon of the Soul

Vol. 5, Love, Human and Divine

Vol. 5, Pearls from the Ocean Unseen

Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence

Vol. 6, The Alchemy of Happiness

Vol. 7, In an Eastern Rose Garden

Vol. 8, Health and Order of Body and Mind

Vol. 8, The Privilege of Being Human

Vol. 8a, Sufi Teachings

Vol. 9, The Unity of Religious Ideals

Vol. 10, Sufi Mysticism

Vol. 10, The Path of Initiation and Discipleship

Vol. 10, Sufi Poetry

Vol. 10, Art: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Vol. 10, The Problem of the Day

Vol. 11, Philosophy

Vol. 11, Psychology

Vol. 11, Mysticism in Life

Vol. 12, The Vision of God and Man

Vol. 12, Confessions: Autobiographical Essays of Hazat Inayat Khan

Vol. 12, Four Plays

Vol. 13, Gathas

Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead

By Date

THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

Heading

1. Our Physical Constitution

2. The Experience of the Soul

3. The Destiny of the Soul

Sub-Heading

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The Elements of the Body

The Mystical Significance of the Body

The Nature of the Senses and Their Organs

The Source of Bodily Desires

The Source Of Emotions

The Constitution of the Mind

The Constitution of the Heart

The Influence of the Mind Upon the Body, and of the Body Upon the Mind

The Soul in Itself Alone

The Soul with the Mind

The Soul with Mind and Body

Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence

1. Our Physical Constitution

The Constitution of the Mind

The mind is composed of five faculties. Even as our hand has five fingers, the physical world has five chief elements which constitute it. As ether is an element separate from earth, water, fire, and air, and yet contains all these elements, so is the faculty which we call "heart" a faculty separate from the remaining four; and yet it contains the four faculties within itself.

  1. The special work of the heart is to feel and to produce emotions out of itself.
  2. The second faculty is mind; its work is to think and to produce thoughts.
  3. The third faculty is memory; its work is to collect and to supply impressions.
  4. The fourth is reason; its work is to discriminate and to decide things.
  5. The fifth faculty is the ego, which makes one think of one's own person, and all else as a separate entity.