The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The picture of indifference is shown in a story of when Emperor Akbar went to pay a visit to a dervish who lived in the mountains. His grand vizier accompanied him. When he arrived near the rock where the dervish was lying, his legs stretched, the Emperor and vizier bowed before him. And the dervish answered by nodding his head. The vizier could not understand this manner in which the Emperor was received by that dervish -- the Emperor, who at every moment was shown proper courtesy by thousands and millions of people. The vizier asked in sarcasm, "How long is it, dervish, that you have stretched your legs?"


 
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