The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Once a nurse came to me and said, "This child asks wonderful questions, and I cannot answer them." I said, "What are the questions?" She replied, "When this child was going to say its evening prayer before going to bed, it asked me, "If God is in heaven, up in heaven, then why must I bow low to the earth?"" The nurse was very perplexed; she did not know how to answer; but if this child had not been answered, from that moment its belief would have gone, because that is the time when the soul is beginning to inquire into life and its mystery. I asked the child, "What did you say?" The child explained it to me, and I said, "Yes, God is in heaven, but where are His feet? On the earth. By bending towards the earth, you are touching His feet." That gave it the explanation that although the head of God is in heaven, the feet of God are on the earth; and therefore touching the earth is touching the feet of God. It was quite satisfied.


 
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