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. 3, Character and Personality

The Law of Renunciation

Morals and Realization

[This paper shows the link between realization and character development. The point is that the highest morality one can aspire to is dependent on one's realization.]

There are three stages of morals.

  1. The first stage is the moral of reciprocity. This moral is natural to the one who sees the difference between himself and another, who recognizes every man as such and such.

  2. The second stage is the law of beneficence, where man, recognizing himself as an entity separate from others and recognizing others as distinct entities themselves, yet sees a cord of connection running through himself and all, and finds himself as a dome in which rises an echo of good and evil; and in order to have a good echo he gives good for good and good for evil.

  3. But the third stage is the moral of renunciation, where the difference of "mine" and "thine" and the distinction of "I" and "you" fade away in the realization of the one Life that is within and without, beneath and beyond; and that is the meaning of the verse in the Bible, "In Him we live, and move, and have our being."