The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Whenever a grownup person sees a child with good manner his first impulse is, "May he be blessed may he succeed in life." And that good will that comes from the grownup people is not taken by a child who disturbs them; he is deprived of that blessing. And to me it seems that the first lesson of religion is to teach them to consider the mother, the father, the elderly people in the home. And if the children are not trained in that, then when they grow up they cannot understand religion. Religion, I mean in the sense of the word, not a special form of religion. And what is really needed in the world today is the bettering of the soul. A good time will only come when the coming generation will try and strive after the improvement of the soul. Q. What must one do before an advancing army of Germans and Bolsheviks? A. I think that this saying must be blown in a trumpet, through all the parts of the world, I say, "Fight with another is war, and struggle with oneself is peace."


 
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