Now coming to even more important work, that on which the strength of our whole Movement depends. That is the esoteric work in which anybody is received by the initiation. It is not in the ordinary word of initiation. It is a word, there is no word to interpret, Bayat we call it. Initiation is a trust. When the pupil says, "I give you my trust, that whatever you give me I am sure I shall be benefitted," the teacher says, "All I shall give to you, you will keep as your sacred trust." That is the teacher's trust. When the trust is given from both sides, that is an initiation.

What is attained by the initiation? One is to acquaint oneself with the deeper side of life. What is the deeper side of life? The education, whatever it is, not completed as long as one is keeping to the outer side of life, and not yet entered into the deeper side of life.

And now the question is how can one attain to the deeper side? It is quite a different meaning.

One method is to acquire the knowledge from the life without, and that is going to school and attaining the knowledge in that way.
Another method is quite different; it is not going to school or institution and study, but closing the door of one's room, sitting in solitude, closing the eyes, being oneself once again, and trying to put one's mind within, seeking the source within, getting the knowledge which [can] be gotten only from within.

Of course, that art has its rules and regulations which are not applicable to each in the same way, although the science is one and the same. Still, when a physician receives different people, to each he gives a separate prescription, for each condition, to get it right. In the same way with the Sufi esoteric work, every person that is initiated does not get the same thing to do, and in a different way. All the same it is one art or science, a science of tuning oneself within.

By this a person gets great power over himself. Willpower becomes strengthened, discipline develops, the vision becomes more dear. One develops more control, more magnetism and power not only upon oneself, but upon everything. Upon everything one has a power. I do not mean that one has a power on the weather, but by self-discipline one gets a power of resistance, a power over circumstances which upset a person.

Often a fine person has jarring influences from around, from those with whom one comes in contact, one's friends, one's enemies; everywhere one finds life most difficult. If one goes on like this it becomes nothing but a terrible life; one becomes irritated and one becomes a difficult object for others. But by attaining that strength which comes from the deeper side of life one is able to get above things, to overcome the influences which come up and jar one's sensibilities. They are all thrown back, and one can keep oneself in the right tone and rhythm. The purpose of life is to keep oneself in the right tone and rhythm.

The nature of life is to put us off the right tone and rhythm. Every moment is that struggle. Even for a saint or sage there is this struggle to meet; from the first moment one gets up in the morning one has to meet with this struggle. If it is so with the advanced souls, then what with the ordinary people? Therefore there are so many suicides, people unhappy. Very few you will find content. There are those who say they are content, but still no real content you will find.

That shows that life is a continual struggle. It is no need to say that it is not struggle; one must develop one's strength to combat with this struggle, and to harmonize, making rhythm and tone to cope with this struggle, creating at the same time harmony and beauty.

Therefore Sufism is called the philosophy of love, harmony, and beauty; that means to understand really what it means to create in one's everyday life this which is the seeking of every soul.