The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Now there is a book which is very popular, on the Masters of the East, written by a man who never went to the East. Everybody has read it; everybody asked me, 'Have you read this book? It is such a wonderful book,' and some people think, 'Is it not a good thing that some people get interested in these things?' Really speaking, this book has helped me very much, because wherever people had read this book they came to hear me. It helped me very much in advertising; at the same time how many people are deluded by it. And anything that you further by falsehood, it leads to falsehood. Besides, the success of falsehood is false. He has made a very nice novel; the book is like a novel. It tells about the Mahatmas, Masters, sitting in the caves of the mountains of the Himalayas, it describes the scenery from imagination. He is a good play-producer. He has made a beautiful play out of it, made a book of it. This book is read by hundreds and thousands of people. But then, when something impresses them, do you think they will leave him alone? No, they will follow him, they pursue him and pull him to pieces. He never even went to India once. Suppose fifty, hundred persons have found it. And tens of thousands have read his book, they all believe in him. It is a state of chaos.


 
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