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Volume

Sayings

Social Gathekas

Religious Gathekas

The Message Papers

The Healing Papers

Vol. 1, The Way of Illumination

Vol. 1, The Inner Life

Vol. 1, The Soul, Whence And Whither?

Vol. 1, The Purpose of Life

Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound and Music

Vol. 2, The Mysticism of Sound

Vol. 2, Cosmic Language

Vol. 2, The Power of the Word

Vol. 3, Education

Vol. 3, Life's Creative Forces: Rasa Shastra

Vol. 3, Character and Personality

Vol. 4, Healing And The Mind World

Vol. 4, Mental Purification

Vol. 4, The Mind-World

Vol. 5, A Sufi Message Of Spiritual Liberty

Vol. 5, Aqibat, Life After Death

Vol. 5, The Phenomenon of the Soul

Vol. 5, Love, Human and Divine

Vol. 5, Pearls from the Ocean Unseen

Vol. 5, Metaphysics, The Experience of the Soul Through the Different Planes of Existence

Vol. 6, The Alchemy of Happiness

Vol. 7, In an Eastern Rose Garden

Vol. 8, Health and Order of Body and Mind

Vol. 8, The Privilege of Being Human

Vol. 8a, Sufi Teachings

Vol. 9, The Unity of Religious Ideals

Vol. 10, Sufi Mysticism

Vol. 10, The Path of Initiation and Discipleship

Vol. 10, Sufi Poetry

Vol. 10, Art: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Vol. 10, The Problem of the Day

Vol. 11, Philosophy

Vol. 11, Psychology

Vol. 11, Mysticism in Life

Vol. 12, The Vision of God and Man

Vol. 12, Confessions: Autobiographical Essays of Hazat Inayat Khan

Vol. 12, Four Plays

Vol. 13, Gathas

Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead

By Date

THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

Heading

Superstitions, Customs, and Beliefs

Insight

Symbology

Breath

Morals

Everyday Life

Metaphysics

Sub-Heading

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1.1, Natural Self

1.2, The Instrument of Our Body

1.3, The Breath

1.4, Outer and Inner Ablutions

1.5, Inner Ablutions

1.6, Vegetarian Diet

1.7, The Five Elements of the Body

1.8, Purification

1.9, Sobriety

1.10, Fasting

2.1, The Purity of the Body

2.2, Purification

2.3, Purity of Mind (1)

2.4, Purity of Mind (2)

2.5, Purification of the Mind

2.6, The Power of Mind

2.7, Every Mind Has Its Own Standard of Good and Bad

2.8, The Impression of Illness and Weakness on the Mind

2.9, Keeping the Mind in a Pure Condition

2.10, Keeping the Mind Free From All Undesirable Impressions

3.1, Purity of the Heart

3.2, Keeping the Heart Pure

3.3, The Radiance of the Face

3.4, Innocence

3.5, Reject the Impression of Errors and Shortcomings

3.6, Purity of the Heart

3.7, Exaltation

3.8, Purify the Mind from Fear

3.9, Keep the Heart Free from Poison

3.10, The Real Purification of Mind

Vol. 13, Gathas

Everyday Life

3.10, The Real Purification of Mind

The real purification of mind is in purifying it from thoughts and impressions which live in it as a germ of disease.

The best way of cleansing the mind from all this is to be able to empty the mind of any thought, feeling or impression. To be pure means to be natural. The spirit in man in its natural condition is not a thought but mind, not love but heart. For as the thought is the outcome of mind so is love the outcome of the heart. To attain to the purity which is the seeking of the mystic one must be able to purify one's spirit from every thought and feeling, however deeply impressed or engraved in one's heart.

The mystic goes as far as purifying himself from his identity, by removing it for a certain time and by putting something else in its place. From beginning to end the whole process of spiritual development depends upon this.