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

Akhlak Allah 1

Akhlak Allah 2

Akhlak Allah 3

And Realization

Animal-like ego

Art of Personality

Attitude Toward Self, Vol. 4

Attitude Toward Self, Vol. 6

Attitude Towards Others

Awakening

Character Healing

Confidence

Culture of the Heart

Duty of Happiness

Fearless 1

Fearless 2

Grades of Humanity

Harmony

Indifference and love

Leadership

Leave an Impression of Good

Life In This World

Mental Purification

My Thoughtful Self

No detachment

Reward & punishment

Rules

Self-denial

Signs of Spirituality

Soul Qualities

The Dome

Viprit Karnai

Vol. 2, Cosmic Language

11. Mind and Heart

Questions and answers

Question: What is indifference.
Answer: This is a word that I always find difficult to explain, and I have made many people angry by talking about indifference, for they say: "Where is the love which you have come to preach to us? Indifference is quite contrary to love, to the message, to the teaching." And when people read in Buddhism and Yogism about renunciation, nirvana, vairagia - which in the Sufi terms of the Persian poets is fana - they begin to ask: "Have they all taught to become indifferent, have they taught such cruelty?"

But in reality it is quite a different thing. Indifference is not lovelessness nor is it lack of sympathy. Indifference is most useful at the time when a soul has arrived at that sensitiveness when every little thing hurts. Then it is only indifference which keeps it alive.