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

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PHILOSOPHY 1

PHILOSOPHY 2

PHILOSOPHY 3

PHILOSOPHY 4

PHILOSOPHY 5

MYSTICISM 1

MYSTICISM 2

MYSTICISM 3

MYSTICISM 4

MYSTICISM 5

MYSTICISM 6

MYSTICISM 7

METAPHYSICS 1

METAPHYSICS 2

METAPHYSICS 3

METAPHYSICS 4

PSYCHOLOGY 1

PSYCHOLOGY 2

PSYCHOLOGY 3

PSYCHOLOGY 4

PSYCHOLOGY 5

PSYCHOLOGY 6

PSYCHOLOGY 7

BROTHERHOOD 1

BROTHERHOOD 2

MISCELLANEOUS I

MISCELLANEOUS 2

MISCELLANEOUS 3

MISCELLANEOUS 4

MISCELLANEOUS 5

MISCELLANEOUS 6

MISCELLANEOUS 7

RELIGION 1

RELIGION 2

RELIGION 3

RELIGION 4

ART AND MUSIC 1

ART AND MUSIC 2

ART AND MUSIC 3

ART AND MUSIC 4

CLASS FOR MUREEDS 1

CLASS FOR MUREEDS 2

CLASS FOR MUREEDS 3

CLASS FOR MUREEDS 4

CLASS FOR MUREEDS 5

CLASS FOR MUREEDS 6

CLASS FOR MUREEDS 7

CLASS FOR MUREEDS 8

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A Universe in Man (1)

A Universe in Man (2)

Satan

Kismet

Four Great Powers

Predestination

THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

PHILOSOPHY 2

Predestination

The creation was made by the activity of the consciousness. You will say: "How is it with predestination?" What is predestined is not predestined, but as it has gone one way, it goes that way again. It is as if someone went to Tottenham Court Road. The first time he goes to Tottenham Court Road. The second time he thinks: "I should stop at Bond Street." The third time he thinks: "I should go to Oxford Circus." The fourth time he thinks: "I shall see Hyde Park." Because he had started on that way.

The question is always asked, When someone is told from the cards or from the smoke, or in whatever way, what he will do in his life, and he does it, does this show that it is predestined for him? Some people tell the future by the tea-leaves, and some by the cards, or by the smoke, or by looking in the sky, or by looking in the corner. I know someone who was such a great person in this, that when he smoked a big cigar, an Indian cigar, he then looked at the smoke, and told the whole course of a person's life. When the things happen as they were told, this may be that the words, the telling, has impressed the mind of the person. The fortune-teller makes the program for your life, and you perform the program. People have become heroes by reading the lives of heroes. They were impressed by what they read. Or it may really be predestined. Then it is revelation. This revelation comes also in dreams. Sometimes, if a misfortune is going to happen to us or to those near us, we dream of it. Or if some good fortune is going to happen we dream of it. The warnings and signs are revelations.

Q. Is there such a thing as fate or kismet and can it be avoided? A. Every person has his fate, but, if he has enough knowledge, and if he has the possibilities of avoiding it, he can avoid it. God bless you.