The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I will tell you a little example. When travelling in India, I was staying in a place near a Hindu temple. And there were two porters who took care of that temple. They were of Afghanistan, proud and stiff, rough and rigid in their manner, and yet in their expression there was honesty and goodness. As I passed through that way I saw them ignoring so to speak my entering and going out, lest they may have trouble of observing any conventionalities. One of them came to me with a message from his master. I got up from my seat, and I received him most cordially. And since that time; every time I passed, even if five times in a day, I was very well received with smiles, and with very warm welcome, and there was no more ignoring, because education was given to that person, without hurting his feeling. That gave him the pleasure; certainly he thought that: "I can give to another also." |