The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Therefore, if it is one individual that reincarnates, should we hold our changeable body to be an individual, or our mind, which both appear to be one and at the same time many? One might ask Jack, "Which part of yourself is Jack, the eye, the nose, the ear, or the hand or foot, which each of them have a particular name? Or are you thoughts and feelings Jack? They are numerous, changeable, and diverse. You name them as such an imagination, such a feeling." This shows that Jack stands aloof as the owner of all the finer and grosser properties that have grouped and formed an illusion before him, which, reflected upon his soul, makes him say: "I, Jack," the owner of all that he realizes around and about him, and yet each atom and vibration which has composed his illusionary self is liable to change, to a separate birth and death for itself. Also, if Jack has reincarnated as John, or John has reincarnated as Jack, what were both in the beginning? Were they two, or one? If one became two, then one could become thousands, millions, and still he is one only.


 
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