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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Unity

The Culture of the Soul

Consciousness, the Only Personality

The Influence of Character and Fate on Our Surroundings

THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

METAPHYSICS 4

Unity

The breath is one, and all else is two. The eyes are two, the ears are two. The breath is one in all mankind, and in all animals and birds. This shows us the unity of God. What is one in the unmanifested state becomes two in the manifested state. The eyes are two. The ears are two. There are the two nostrils, and the two lips. Though the tongue shows one, yet there is the palate to make two. There are the two hands, the two feet.

When a person wishes to rest, he folds his arms. If he wishes to feel peaceful, he closes his eyes, and a peace comes. Though the eyes are two outside, inside they are one. If the ears had covers, like the lids of the eyes, a person would close them. When a person is in the crowd, in a great noise, the thought comes: "I should go away into the solitude." If anyone is sleeping, he will want to cross his legs. If he is sitting, he will want at least to put one foot over the other. When they meet, people shake hands.

All this shows that the going from duality to unity is a bliss. The two arms and the two legs are restful when they are folded, because they have been one before and they want to be one again. If I ask you to hold your five fingers apart for six hours, you will say, "No, thank you." If I ask you to keep your hand closed for six hours, you will consent more readily. If I ask you to remain six hours with arms outstretched, you will decline. If I ask you to keep your arms folded for six hours, you may consent. If I ask you to keep your lips parted for hours, you will not be willing to do so. If I ask you to keep your lips closed for hours, you will consent.

The soul has been one with the 'consciousness,' and it longs for its union with the Consciousness. By the manifestation two have come from what was one. The soul wants to manifest. It also wants to return to the Consciousness.