The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan1

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Topic

Archetypes

Astrology

Attainment

Chakras

Character

Christ

Compassion

Dervish

Desire and renunciation

Destiny and Free Will

Dimensions

Discipleship

Dreams

Duties and debts

Ego

Elements

God

Guidance

Healers

Healing

Health

Heart

Immortality

Initiation

Light and Love

Lovers

Magnetism

Mastery

Material life

Meditation

Message

Mind

Physical Body

Planes

Poets

Power

Prayers

Purpose

Reconstruction of World

Relationships

Religions

Saints

School

Scientists

Sexuality

Sleep

Speaking

Stages

Stories

Sufism

Teaching Style

Voice

Women

World

Wounds of the Heart

Sub-Topic

Alchemy

Attitude of a Disciple

Children School

Confidence

Discipleship

Finding a Guide

Five Necessities

Ideals and Aims

Initiation

Inner School

Kinds of Disciples

Resistance of Pupils

Science of Breath

Sufi Training

Symbol of the Sufi Order

Ten Sufi Thoughts

The fire I have lighted

The Murshid

Two Duties

Way of Working

Yoga and Sufism

By Date

1926

Resistance of Pupils

It has nothing to do with teachings, only with the attitude of the worker, how it acts upon a person. In our everyday life a psychological consideration is of the greatest importance, in spiritual work even more. You would be surprised if I tell you my spiritual experience. Every day there is no end to them. And such amusing experiences.

  • Some come and say, "I don't like a personal thought for any teacher. I like to study the teachings."
  • And another one comes and says, "It is you who are the Sufi Movement or Order. If you were not the teacher, I would not have thought of it. I am against it. It is you."
  • And a third person comes and says, "Murshid, if you were to teach me, I would learn from you for my whole life. But I cannot tolerate the other members."
  • And there the other one says, "I am most interested in learning, in taking the spiritual path, only I don't want to be bound by any discipline."
  • Another one says, "Yes, I believe in all you teach, but I don't want to become a Sufi." I told him that, "You do not want to become wise? Sufi means 'wise'. That only shows you don't want to be wise."
  • Then another one says, "I don't want to join a society." You join the membership of a nation. You cannot exist without the nation, without being a citizen. And you do not want to have the privilege of a community? You want to have the highest privilege in life, which is wisdom, and you cannot be joining a group? Imagine!
  • Another says, "Murshid, I cannot do mechanical practice of repeating a word; it makes me disgusted." One who goes to the teacher of voice, he makes such faces with his mouth open in order to make his voice better; in developing voice, he makes all sorts of grimaces. And when it comes to the highest and most important and valuable thing, he cannot sit and repeat hundred times something, and he says, "It makes me agitated."

Imagine, they will not join, they will not have discipline, they will not respect the teacher, not regard the members, they will not study, not practise, but they want to be spiritual. Do I not meet such examples every day, and how many? You cannot imagine.