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

Atheist

Chandra Bose

Chandra Bose 2

Chandra Bose 3

Difference from Mystics

Discover the Soul

Dr. Abrams

Einstein

Farabi

Levitation

Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank

Old Scientist

Professor Frossard

Substance -vs- Vacuum

The word "within"

Visual impressions of sound

Vol. 10, The Problem of the Day

4. The Need of Religion

There is a touching story of a scientist in France who all his life did not believe or admit to any belief in God, in the soul, or in the hereafter. But as he lived longer in the world, he felt the need of religion, although he did not feel he could accept it since all his life he had not accepted it. His wife on the other hand was devoted and religious. One day, stirred by profound sentiment, they were talking heart to heart on the question of religion. The wife was anxious that he should accept it and she asked him, "Don't you ever feel the need of religion, of that devotion which is the only thing that is worth while?" And his answer was, "I do not admit it, yet I believe in your belief, I enjoy your sentiment. That is my religion, my only religion in life.'