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Hazrat Inayat Khan was a musician and
mystic born in India in 1882, who came to America in 1910. He lived
thereafter in London, England during WWI, and then in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris, France. He died in India in 1927.
He extended the ancient "Prayer of the Heart"
to all relgions and to no religion, and strengthened it by adding the full breath and the physical heartbeat.
"Peace comes when self is in harmony with the
rhythm of the heart. This
is accomplished in silent meditation when one enters into the
life-stream in the heart so that it takes up the proper pulsation."
"If there is any form of concentration to be used in meditation, it
consists in first getting into the rhythm of the heart, by
watching the
heartbeats, feeling them and harmonizing with them. Then one centers
all feeling in the physical heart and out of feeling selects love, and
out of love, Divine Love."
Hazrat Inayat Khan said, "A mystic is one who seeks Truth, in any tradition or outside of any tradition.
Everyone wants to claim Truth for their own group, but it cannot be narrowed or contained
for it is the essence of wisdom; it comes from pure experience and it
abides by no dogma or rules."
"The lineage we follow originated from the ancient school of Egyptian mysteries, a
school which existed even before Abraham, the father of three great
religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Our teachings are neither a religion nor a philosophy, neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be
called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony,
and beauty."
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For a database of the writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, click
Database.
The Teaching of the Heart "There are three ways of seeking God in the human heart."
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"Our one moral principle is this: that the whole of humanity is like one body, and any organ of that body which is hurt or troubled can indirectly cause damage to the whole body."
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