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

Circulation of the Divine Blood

Closed and Open

Depth of Mind

Dwelling place of God

Emotions and Elements

Four Dimensions again

God is born in oneself

Heart & Mind

Heart Like Soil

Heart Like Water

Heart, Mind & Eyes

Love is will-power

Magnetism of

Opening the Breast of the Prophet

Power to open hearts

Rel. to Mind

Rel. to Soul & Body

Rel. to Third Eye

Religion of the Heart

Rumi

Sahib-e Dil

Soul & Heart

Spirit-Mind

Stretching the Heart

The Heart of God

The Throne of God

The Work of the Heart

Tuning of the Heart

Types of hearts

Voice of 9 Emotions

Vol. 13, Gathas

Symbology

3.6, The Flute of Krishna

Q: Why can we only have knowledge of God through the heart? What part of the mind does the heart represent?

  • A: The heart is the principle center, not the heart in the body, but the heart which is the depth of the mind, for the mind is the surface of the heart.
  • The heart and mind are as one tree: the root is the heart and the branches, fruits, flowers, and leaves represent the mind.
  • The heart is at the bottom of thought, imagination, and all.
  • Feelings always belong to the heart, thought to the mind; so what belongs to the mind can be expressed in words, what to the heart cannot.
  • Everything in the mind is intelligible, but what is intelligible but not expressible, or beyond what is intelligible, that is the heart.
  • Deeper feelings, mirth, kindness, sympathy, all fine feelings which cannot be expressed in words are all activities of the heart.
  • The heart is like the sea, and the waves are its emotions.
  • The brain is all over the body, this fact is admitted by modern science; brain is that susceptibility which is sensitive, such as nerves which are the sensitive feelers of the brain.