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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Q & A After Social gatheka No. 4, on "Harmony"

Q & A After gatheka No. 16 on "The Ideal..."

Q & A After Social Gatheka 23, on "Music"

Questions and Answers

Q & A After the Lecture on "Resist Not Evil"

THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

MISCELLANEOUS 6

Q & A After gatheka No. 16 on "The Ideal..."

Q. Have the Sufis a method of concentration by which they can attain to this inner harmony?
A. Yes, certainly, there is a method in which a person is initiated, the one who is seriously seeking for truth and would steadily go on in that path with patience and trust.

Q. What is the difference between Sufism and other movements?
A. In the first place if a person says that my wisdom is different from the wisdom of others, he defeats his own argument. Sufism would rather take away its name Sufi, if it did not believe in the word wisdom, not only belonging to Sufism alone, but as a divine heritage of man. And therefore there is no pretense nor intention of proving the Sufi wisdom as superior to any other wisdom, but in acknowledging it as the same wisdom which has always existed, and calling it wisdom. Besides, at this moment when the mechanism of the world's life has become so upset by the spirit of competition which is arising, by the spirit of commercialism, at that time, if we -- those who try to do our best in serving God and humanity -- if we had also the same view, to prove our own way perhaps superior to the others, it will be the same spirit, we shall be going no good.

Our deepest sympathy goes to all those who are doing, in whatever way they can, good to humanity by their service, by bringing humanity together. And if we leave any opinion to form, we leave it to those who tread the path of Sufism, for them to find out for themselves how it has helped, and whether it has been more suited to their nature or not.

But to a part of your question, how it can be applied to the practical life, I will answer that in Sufism, the central theme of our esoteric working is practicing, so to speak, the Presence of God. But in metaphysical terms it may be called, "to keep before one's view reality", in spite of the continual illusions which come before us from morning till evening. Those who tread this path, whatever be their method, we respect it, we consider they are treading the same path that we are. As to the name, we must call ourselves something, if we did not have a name, someone would give us one.