The Gathas represent teachings by Hazrat Inayat Khan to the mureeds, particularly for the early stages of the path.
They are ordered under seven headings: Superstitions, Customs and Beliefs; Insight; Symbology; Breath; Morals; Everyday life; Metaphysics. Each subject is treated in three stages, each consisting of 10 sections. They may be considered as a course, preferably to be followed under the guidance of an initiator.
However, apart from forming a philosophy in its own right, this book may serve as excellent guide even for study and practice by the reader on his or her own.
The present version was carefully compiled and prepared for publication by pupils and close associates of Inayat Khan. The original language and style of the lessons has been kept pure and unaltered throughout this text, even more so than in some of the earlier volumes.
THE present volume is the first of a series including all the works intended for publication of Hazrat Inayat Khan (Baroda 1882-New Delhi 1927), the great Sufi mystic who came to the Western world in 1910 and lectured and taught there until his passing away in 1927.
A new edition of this series, which was published for the International Headquarters of the Sufi Movement in the West in the '60s, is now made available in the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. In this way Hazrat Inayat Khan's inspired and universal vision of the Sufi Message returns to his own beloved country, where it originated and where interest in it is growing.
This book and other volumes of this series have not been written down by the author. They contain his lectures, discourses and other teachings as taken down in shorthand and other handwriting. When preparing for publication great care was taken, not only to avoid distortion of their intent and meaning, but also to leave intact, as far as possible, the flow of mystical inspiration and poetical expression which add so much to their spell, and without which a significant part of his message would be lust. Al though speaking in a tongue foreign to him, he moulded it into a perfect vehicle for his thought, at times somewhat ungrammatical and unusual, but always as clear and precise as his often difficult and abstruse subjects would allow.
It goes without saying that neither in the present nor in the previous edition anything has been altered which would involve even the slightest deviation from the author's intention and no attempt has been made to transform his highly personal and colorful language into idiomatically unimpeachable English. Already so much is necessarily lost by the transfer of the spoken word to the printed page that every effort has been made, as it should, to preserve the Master's melodious phrasing, the radiance of his personality, and the subtle sense of humour which never left him.
Hazrat Inayat Khan's teaching was nearly all given during the years 1918-1926. It covers a great many subjects, several of which were grouped in series of lectures and taken up again some years later. Certain subjects may cover nearly the same ground as others; stories and examples which abound in most of his works are met again elsewhere; and much of what he taught one finds repeated in several places. This was intentional, as repetition belonged to Hazrat Inayat Khan's method of teaching: it is for the student to become aware of the subtle differences in each context. For these and other reasons it would be difficult to follow a rigid system in publishing Hazrat lnaya r Khan's works; a chronological grouping of his lectures would be very unsatisfactory, and a stringent classification according to subject-matter hardly feasible.
The complete series contains fourteen volumes. The last volume is the Index. This edition is the first one to present an index to the Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan.
Each volume is complete in it, and therefore may be read without any necessity to study following or previous ones. However, one may get a spiritual and mental appetite to continue reading. One will find that a meditative way of reading will convey not only the words but also the spiritual power emanating from them, tuning mind, heart and soul to the pitch which is one's own.
It was already announced earlier that as the world nowadays is more open for the understanding the mystical thought, many deeper lectures which Inayat Khan originally intended only for his disciples would be published in the near future. It is appropriate that this edition of The Gathas of Inayat Khan can now be brought out.
These Cathas are, with few exceptions, unpublished teachings given to his disciples in the early 1920's. In his understanding and consideration of the individual's needs and responses Hazrat Inayat Khan presented each of the seven subjects of The Cathas in three stages, each stage consisting of ten lessons. Whilst in the training courses of the Sufi Movement The Gathas have been offered in a slightly different order, the editors have chosen to publish them in accordance with the research made by Nekbakht Furnee and Sirdar van Tuyll van Serooskerken, whose records indicate Inayat Khan's own publication intentions, and who together with other pupils and close associates of Inayat Khan compiled and prepared this version.
Of particular interest is the inclusion of the questions of some of his mureeds and the answers by the master relating to some of the teachings. No attempt has been made to change the order of words or what might appear to be repetition for the purpose of producing conventionally acceptable syntax. No conjecture has been made as to the few missing words in Questions and Answers. In some cases alternative spelling has been used to conform to the first twelve volumes of the Sufi Message.
Preface to the Series | 6 | |
Preface to Volume XIII | 8 | |
Etekad, Rasm U Ravaj (Superstitions, Customs and Beliefs) | 9 | |
Gatha I | ||
1 | Belief and Superstition | 11 |
2 | Belief | 12 |
3 | Customs (1) | 14 |
4 | Customs (2) | 16 |
5 | Hanuman | 17 |
6 | Bells and Gongs | 18 |
7 | The Custom of Drinking the Health of Friends | 19 |
8 | The Origin of the Custom of the Seclusion of Women | 20 |
9 | The Custom OJ the Seclusion of Women (1) | 22 |
10 | The Custom of the Seclusion of Women (2) | 23 |
Gatha II | ||
1 | 'Eat My Flesh and Drink My Blood' | 25 |
2 | Customs of Courtesy | 26 |
3 | Customs of the Marriage Ceremony | 27 |
4 | The Horse | 27 |
5 | Oracles Among the Ancient Greeks | 28 |
6 | The Greek Mysteries (1) | 29 |
7 | The Greek Mysteries (2) | 30 |
8 | The Greek Mysteries (3) | 31 |
9 | The Banshee | 32 |
10 | The Psychology of the Shadow | 33 |
Gatha III | ||
1 | Toasts | 35 |
2 | Wedding Customs | 39 |
3 | Funeral Customs | 39 |
4 | The Swansong | 40 |
5 | Customs at the Birth of a Child in India | 41 |
6 | The Superstition of the Days Existing in the East | 42 |
7 | Unlucky Numbers | 43 |
8 | The Mysteries of Omens | 44 |
9 | The Influence of Time | 45 |
10 | Planetary Influences | 46 |
Kashf (Insight) | 49 | |
Gatha I | ||
1 | Safa | 51 |
2 | Tat Tvam Asi | 52 |
3 | The Glance of the Seer | 54 |
4 | Divine Evidence | 55 |
5 | Openness | 56 |
6 | Movement (1) | 57 |
7 | Movement (2) | 58 |
8 | The Study of the Mole | 58 |
9 | The Mystery of Expression | 59 |
10 | Different Qualities of Mind | 60 |
Gatha II | ||
1 | The Reproduction of the Mental Record | 62 |
2 | Impression | 63 |
3 | The Balance of Life | 64 |
4 | The Language of the Mind | 66 |
5 | The Influence of Experience | 67 |
6 | Intuition | 68 |
7 | Evidence of the Thought | 69 |
8 | The Activity of Mind | 70 |
9 | Likes and Dislikes | 71 |
10 | Viprit Kamal | 72 |
Gatha III | ||
1 | Reason is Earth-born | 74 |
2 | The Word and the Idea | 75 |
3 | The Expression and the Idea: | 76 |
4 | The Power of Words | 78 |
5 | The Re-echo of the Past | 79 |
6 | Interest in All Things | 80 |
7 | Vairagya | 81 |
8 | A Silent Music | 82 |
9 | Three Ways to Develop Insight | 83 |
10 | Tranquillity | 85 |
NAKSHI BANDI (Symbology ) | 89 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | An Ocean in a Drop | 91 |
2 | The Symbol of the Sun | 92 |
3 | The Symbol of the Cross | 93 |
4 | The Two Forces | 95 |
5 | The Symbol of the Dove | 96 |
6 | The Symbol of the Sufi Order | 97 |
7 | Symbology of the Dot and the Circle | 99 |
8 | Symbolism of Lines | 100 |
9 | Symbolism of the Triangle | 101 |
10 | Symbology of the Mushroom | 102 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | 'Die Before Death' | 104 |
2 | Frnitjulness | 105 |
3 | The Symbol of the Dragon | 106 |
4 | Water | 107 |
5 | Wine | 107 |
6 | The Curl of the Beloved | 108 |
7 | The Glance | 109 |
8 | The Myth of Balder | 110 |
9 | The Tree of Wishes | 111 |
10 | The Hindu Symbolical Form of Worship | 113 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | Leili and Majnun | 117 |
2 | Leili and Majnun (Conclusion) | 119 |
3 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas: Christ Walking on the Water | 120 |
4 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas: Shaqqu's-Sadr. | 120 |
5 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas:Meraj, The Dream og the Prophet | 121 |
6 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas: The Flute of Krishna | 122 |
7 | The Symbology oj Religious Ideas: Tongues of Fire | 124 |
8 | The Symbology oj Religious Ideas: The Story of Lot's Wife | 126 |
9 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas | 128 |
10 | The Symbology oj Religious Ideas: The Ten Virgins | 130 |
PASI ANFAS (Breath) | 133 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | The Power of the Breath | 135 |
2 | The Culture of the Breath | 136 |
3 | Prana | 137 |
4 | Five Aspects of Breath | 138 |
5 | The Channel of the Breath | 140 |
6 | The Rhythm of Breath | 141 |
7 | Kasif and Latif | 142 |
8 | Breath-The Vehicle of the Self | 142 |
9 | The Mysticism of Breath | 143 |
10 | Colour and Sound | 144 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | Fikar | 146 |
2 | Regularity of Breath | 147 |
3 | The Life Power | 147 |
4 | Full Breath | 149 |
5 | The Rhythmic Breath | 150 |
6 | Be Conscious of Every Breath | 151 |
7 | Direction of Breath | 152 |
8 | Breath in the Development of Mind | 153 |
9 | Contraction and Expansion | 154 |
10 | Communication Through the Breath | 155 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | The Length and Breadth if Breath | 157 |
2 | Inspiration | 158 |
3 | Thought Reading | 158 |
4 | Nafsi Gann | 159 |
5 | The Unknoum Dimension | 160 |
6 | Breathing and Meditation | 161 |
7 | Breath is Likened to Water | 161 |
8 | Breath and Magnetism | 162 |
9 | The Subtle Waves if Breath | 163 |
10 | The Mystery if Breath | 164 |
SALUK(Morals) | 167 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | The Development oj Personality: The Sense oj Beauty and Sincerity | 169 |
2 | The Development of Personality: The Jarring Effect of the Ego of Another | 171 |
3 | The Development of Personality: What is the Ego? | 172 |
4 | The Training of the Ego: what the Ego Needs and What It Does Not Need | 174 |
5 | The Training of the Ego: Constant Battle with the Ego | 175 |
6 | The Training of the Ego: The Animal Side of Man's Ego | 176 |
7 | The Training of the Ego: Self-Consciousness | 177 |
8 | The Training of the Ego: Vanity | 178 |
9 | The Training of the Ego: The Three Parts of the Ego | 179 |
10 | The Training on the Ego: Three Stages Through V0tich the Ego Develops | 180 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | The Training of the Ego: Necessity and Avidity | 182 |
2 | The Training of the Ego: Training by Abstinence | 183 |
3 | The Training of the Ego: The Two Sides of the Human Ego | 184 |
4 | The Training of the Ego: Training Is as Well a Science as an Art | 185 |
5 | The Training of the Ego: Training by Refraining from Free Impulses | 186 |
6 | The Training of the Ego: The Ego is Trained as a Horse | 186 |
7 | The Training of the Ego: Training by Not Gratifying Vanity | 188 |
8 | The Training of the Ego: Humility | 189 |
9 | The Training of the Ego: Forgiveness | 190 |
10 | The Training of the Ego: 'Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit' | 191 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | The Manner of Friendliness | 193 |
2 | The Manner of Friendliness: Adab (Respect) (1) | 194 |
3 | The Manner of Friendliness: Adab (Respect) (2) | 196 |
4 | Respect | 197 |
5 | The Manner of Friendliness: Khatir (Consideration) | 198 |
6 | Tawazeh (Sharing with Others) | 198 |
7 | Haya (Modesty) | 199 |
8 | Modesty | 200 |
9 | Gheirat (Honour) | 201 |
10 | Enkessar (Selflessness) | 203 |
TAQWA TAHARAT (Everyday Life) | 207 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | Everyday Life | 209 |
2 | The Instrument of Our Body | 210 |
3 | The Breath | 211 |
4 | Outer and Inner Ablutions | 212 |
5 | Inner Ablutions | 212 |
6 | Vegetarian Diet | 213 |
7 | The Five Elements of the Body | 215 |
8 | Purification | 216 |
9 | Sobriety | 217 |
10 | Fasting | 218 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | The Purity of the Body | 219 |
2 | Purification | 220 |
3 | Purity of Mind (1) | 221 |
4 | Purity of Mind (2) | 222 |
5 | Purification of the Mind | 223 |
6 | The Power of Mind | 225 |
7 | Every Mind has its own Standard of Good and Bad | 226 |
8 | The Impression of Illness and Weakness on the Mind | 227 |
9 | Keeping the Mind in a Pure Condition | 228 |
10 | Keeping the Mind Free from All Undesirable Impressions | 229 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | Purity of Heart | 232 |
2 | Keeping the Heart Pure | 232 |
3 | The Radiance of the Face | 233 |
4 | Innocence | 234 |
5 | Reject the Impression of Errors and Shortcomings | 235 |
6 | Purity of the Heart | 236 |
7 | Exaltation | 236 |
8 | Purify the Mind from Fear | 237 |
9 | Keep the Heart Free from Poison | 238 |
10 | The Real Purification of Mind | 239 |
TASAWWUF (Metaphysics) | 241 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | Belief | 243 |
2 | Faith | 245 |
3 | Hope | 246 |
4 | Patience | 247 |
5 | Fear | 249 |
6 | Justice | 250 |
7 | Reason | 251 |
8 | Logic | 252 |
9 | Temptation | 252 |
10 | Tolerance | 253 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | Forgiveness | 255 |
2 | Endurance (1) | 256 |
3 | Endurance (2) | 257 |
4 | Will-power | 258 |
5 | Keeping a Secret | 260 |
6 | Mind | 261 |
7 | Thought | 262 |
8 | Tawakul; Dependence upon God | 264 |
9 | Piety | 265 |
10 | Spirituality | 266 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | Attitude | 268 |
2 | Sympathy | 269 |
3 | The Word 'Sin' | 271 |
4 | Kaza and Kadr: The Will, Human and Divine | 273 |
5 | Opinion | 276 |
6 | Conscience | 278 |
7 | Conventionality | 280 |
8 | Life | 284 |
9 | The Word 'Shame' | 289 |
10 | Tolerance | 292 |
The Gathas represent teachings by Hazrat Inayat Khan to the mureeds, particularly for the early stages of the path.
They are ordered under seven headings: Superstitions, Customs and Beliefs; Insight; Symbology; Breath; Morals; Everyday life; Metaphysics. Each subject is treated in three stages, each consisting of 10 sections. They may be considered as a course, preferably to be followed under the guidance of an initiator.
However, apart from forming a philosophy in its own right, this book may serve as excellent guide even for study and practice by the reader on his or her own.
The present version was carefully compiled and prepared for publication by pupils and close associates of Inayat Khan. The original language and style of the lessons has been kept pure and unaltered throughout this text, even more so than in some of the earlier volumes.
THE present volume is the first of a series including all the works intended for publication of Hazrat Inayat Khan (Baroda 1882-New Delhi 1927), the great Sufi mystic who came to the Western world in 1910 and lectured and taught there until his passing away in 1927.
A new edition of this series, which was published for the International Headquarters of the Sufi Movement in the West in the '60s, is now made available in the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. In this way Hazrat Inayat Khan's inspired and universal vision of the Sufi Message returns to his own beloved country, where it originated and where interest in it is growing.
This book and other volumes of this series have not been written down by the author. They contain his lectures, discourses and other teachings as taken down in shorthand and other handwriting. When preparing for publication great care was taken, not only to avoid distortion of their intent and meaning, but also to leave intact, as far as possible, the flow of mystical inspiration and poetical expression which add so much to their spell, and without which a significant part of his message would be lust. Al though speaking in a tongue foreign to him, he moulded it into a perfect vehicle for his thought, at times somewhat ungrammatical and unusual, but always as clear and precise as his often difficult and abstruse subjects would allow.
It goes without saying that neither in the present nor in the previous edition anything has been altered which would involve even the slightest deviation from the author's intention and no attempt has been made to transform his highly personal and colorful language into idiomatically unimpeachable English. Already so much is necessarily lost by the transfer of the spoken word to the printed page that every effort has been made, as it should, to preserve the Master's melodious phrasing, the radiance of his personality, and the subtle sense of humour which never left him.
Hazrat Inayat Khan's teaching was nearly all given during the years 1918-1926. It covers a great many subjects, several of which were grouped in series of lectures and taken up again some years later. Certain subjects may cover nearly the same ground as others; stories and examples which abound in most of his works are met again elsewhere; and much of what he taught one finds repeated in several places. This was intentional, as repetition belonged to Hazrat Inayat Khan's method of teaching: it is for the student to become aware of the subtle differences in each context. For these and other reasons it would be difficult to follow a rigid system in publishing Hazrat lnaya r Khan's works; a chronological grouping of his lectures would be very unsatisfactory, and a stringent classification according to subject-matter hardly feasible.
The complete series contains fourteen volumes. The last volume is the Index. This edition is the first one to present an index to the Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan.
Each volume is complete in it, and therefore may be read without any necessity to study following or previous ones. However, one may get a spiritual and mental appetite to continue reading. One will find that a meditative way of reading will convey not only the words but also the spiritual power emanating from them, tuning mind, heart and soul to the pitch which is one's own.
It was already announced earlier that as the world nowadays is more open for the understanding the mystical thought, many deeper lectures which Inayat Khan originally intended only for his disciples would be published in the near future. It is appropriate that this edition of The Gathas of Inayat Khan can now be brought out.
These Cathas are, with few exceptions, unpublished teachings given to his disciples in the early 1920's. In his understanding and consideration of the individual's needs and responses Hazrat Inayat Khan presented each of the seven subjects of The Cathas in three stages, each stage consisting of ten lessons. Whilst in the training courses of the Sufi Movement The Gathas have been offered in a slightly different order, the editors have chosen to publish them in accordance with the research made by Nekbakht Furnee and Sirdar van Tuyll van Serooskerken, whose records indicate Inayat Khan's own publication intentions, and who together with other pupils and close associates of Inayat Khan compiled and prepared this version.
Of particular interest is the inclusion of the questions of some of his mureeds and the answers by the master relating to some of the teachings. No attempt has been made to change the order of words or what might appear to be repetition for the purpose of producing conventionally acceptable syntax. No conjecture has been made as to the few missing words in Questions and Answers. In some cases alternative spelling has been used to conform to the first twelve volumes of the Sufi Message.
Preface to the Series | 6 | |
Preface to Volume XIII | 8 | |
Etekad, Rasm U Ravaj (Superstitions, Customs and Beliefs) | 9 | |
Gatha I | ||
1 | Belief and Superstition | 11 |
2 | Belief | 12 |
3 | Customs (1) | 14 |
4 | Customs (2) | 16 |
5 | Hanuman | 17 |
6 | Bells and Gongs | 18 |
7 | The Custom of Drinking the Health of Friends | 19 |
8 | The Origin of the Custom of the Seclusion of Women | 20 |
9 | The Custom OJ the Seclusion of Women (1) | 22 |
10 | The Custom of the Seclusion of Women (2) | 23 |
Gatha II | ||
1 | 'Eat My Flesh and Drink My Blood' | 25 |
2 | Customs of Courtesy | 26 |
3 | Customs of the Marriage Ceremony | 27 |
4 | The Horse | 27 |
5 | Oracles Among the Ancient Greeks | 28 |
6 | The Greek Mysteries (1) | 29 |
7 | The Greek Mysteries (2) | 30 |
8 | The Greek Mysteries (3) | 31 |
9 | The Banshee | 32 |
10 | The Psychology of the Shadow | 33 |
Gatha III | ||
1 | Toasts | 35 |
2 | Wedding Customs | 39 |
3 | Funeral Customs | 39 |
4 | The Swansong | 40 |
5 | Customs at the Birth of a Child in India | 41 |
6 | The Superstition of the Days Existing in the East | 42 |
7 | Unlucky Numbers | 43 |
8 | The Mysteries of Omens | 44 |
9 | The Influence of Time | 45 |
10 | Planetary Influences | 46 |
Kashf (Insight) | 49 | |
Gatha I | ||
1 | Safa | 51 |
2 | Tat Tvam Asi | 52 |
3 | The Glance of the Seer | 54 |
4 | Divine Evidence | 55 |
5 | Openness | 56 |
6 | Movement (1) | 57 |
7 | Movement (2) | 58 |
8 | The Study of the Mole | 58 |
9 | The Mystery of Expression | 59 |
10 | Different Qualities of Mind | 60 |
Gatha II | ||
1 | The Reproduction of the Mental Record | 62 |
2 | Impression | 63 |
3 | The Balance of Life | 64 |
4 | The Language of the Mind | 66 |
5 | The Influence of Experience | 67 |
6 | Intuition | 68 |
7 | Evidence of the Thought | 69 |
8 | The Activity of Mind | 70 |
9 | Likes and Dislikes | 71 |
10 | Viprit Kamal | 72 |
Gatha III | ||
1 | Reason is Earth-born | 74 |
2 | The Word and the Idea | 75 |
3 | The Expression and the Idea: | 76 |
4 | The Power of Words | 78 |
5 | The Re-echo of the Past | 79 |
6 | Interest in All Things | 80 |
7 | Vairagya | 81 |
8 | A Silent Music | 82 |
9 | Three Ways to Develop Insight | 83 |
10 | Tranquillity | 85 |
NAKSHI BANDI (Symbology ) | 89 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | An Ocean in a Drop | 91 |
2 | The Symbol of the Sun | 92 |
3 | The Symbol of the Cross | 93 |
4 | The Two Forces | 95 |
5 | The Symbol of the Dove | 96 |
6 | The Symbol of the Sufi Order | 97 |
7 | Symbology of the Dot and the Circle | 99 |
8 | Symbolism of Lines | 100 |
9 | Symbolism of the Triangle | 101 |
10 | Symbology of the Mushroom | 102 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | 'Die Before Death' | 104 |
2 | Frnitjulness | 105 |
3 | The Symbol of the Dragon | 106 |
4 | Water | 107 |
5 | Wine | 107 |
6 | The Curl of the Beloved | 108 |
7 | The Glance | 109 |
8 | The Myth of Balder | 110 |
9 | The Tree of Wishes | 111 |
10 | The Hindu Symbolical Form of Worship | 113 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | Leili and Majnun | 117 |
2 | Leili and Majnun (Conclusion) | 119 |
3 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas: Christ Walking on the Water | 120 |
4 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas: Shaqqu's-Sadr. | 120 |
5 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas:Meraj, The Dream og the Prophet | 121 |
6 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas: The Flute of Krishna | 122 |
7 | The Symbology oj Religious Ideas: Tongues of Fire | 124 |
8 | The Symbology oj Religious Ideas: The Story of Lot's Wife | 126 |
9 | The Symbology of Religious Ideas | 128 |
10 | The Symbology oj Religious Ideas: The Ten Virgins | 130 |
PASI ANFAS (Breath) | 133 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | The Power of the Breath | 135 |
2 | The Culture of the Breath | 136 |
3 | Prana | 137 |
4 | Five Aspects of Breath | 138 |
5 | The Channel of the Breath | 140 |
6 | The Rhythm of Breath | 141 |
7 | Kasif and Latif | 142 |
8 | Breath-The Vehicle of the Self | 142 |
9 | The Mysticism of Breath | 143 |
10 | Colour and Sound | 144 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | Fikar | 146 |
2 | Regularity of Breath | 147 |
3 | The Life Power | 147 |
4 | Full Breath | 149 |
5 | The Rhythmic Breath | 150 |
6 | Be Conscious of Every Breath | 151 |
7 | Direction of Breath | 152 |
8 | Breath in the Development of Mind | 153 |
9 | Contraction and Expansion | 154 |
10 | Communication Through the Breath | 155 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | The Length and Breadth if Breath | 157 |
2 | Inspiration | 158 |
3 | Thought Reading | 158 |
4 | Nafsi Gann | 159 |
5 | The Unknoum Dimension | 160 |
6 | Breathing and Meditation | 161 |
7 | Breath is Likened to Water | 161 |
8 | Breath and Magnetism | 162 |
9 | The Subtle Waves if Breath | 163 |
10 | The Mystery if Breath | 164 |
SALUK(Morals) | 167 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | The Development oj Personality: The Sense oj Beauty and Sincerity | 169 |
2 | The Development of Personality: The Jarring Effect of the Ego of Another | 171 |
3 | The Development of Personality: What is the Ego? | 172 |
4 | The Training of the Ego: what the Ego Needs and What It Does Not Need | 174 |
5 | The Training of the Ego: Constant Battle with the Ego | 175 |
6 | The Training of the Ego: The Animal Side of Man's Ego | 176 |
7 | The Training of the Ego: Self-Consciousness | 177 |
8 | The Training of the Ego: Vanity | 178 |
9 | The Training of the Ego: The Three Parts of the Ego | 179 |
10 | The Training on the Ego: Three Stages Through V0tich the Ego Develops | 180 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | The Training of the Ego: Necessity and Avidity | 182 |
2 | The Training of the Ego: Training by Abstinence | 183 |
3 | The Training of the Ego: The Two Sides of the Human Ego | 184 |
4 | The Training of the Ego: Training Is as Well a Science as an Art | 185 |
5 | The Training of the Ego: Training by Refraining from Free Impulses | 186 |
6 | The Training of the Ego: The Ego is Trained as a Horse | 186 |
7 | The Training of the Ego: Training by Not Gratifying Vanity | 188 |
8 | The Training of the Ego: Humility | 189 |
9 | The Training of the Ego: Forgiveness | 190 |
10 | The Training of the Ego: 'Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit' | 191 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | The Manner of Friendliness | 193 |
2 | The Manner of Friendliness: Adab (Respect) (1) | 194 |
3 | The Manner of Friendliness: Adab (Respect) (2) | 196 |
4 | Respect | 197 |
5 | The Manner of Friendliness: Khatir (Consideration) | 198 |
6 | Tawazeh (Sharing with Others) | 198 |
7 | Haya (Modesty) | 199 |
8 | Modesty | 200 |
9 | Gheirat (Honour) | 201 |
10 | Enkessar (Selflessness) | 203 |
TAQWA TAHARAT (Everyday Life) | 207 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | Everyday Life | 209 |
2 | The Instrument of Our Body | 210 |
3 | The Breath | 211 |
4 | Outer and Inner Ablutions | 212 |
5 | Inner Ablutions | 212 |
6 | Vegetarian Diet | 213 |
7 | The Five Elements of the Body | 215 |
8 | Purification | 216 |
9 | Sobriety | 217 |
10 | Fasting | 218 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | The Purity of the Body | 219 |
2 | Purification | 220 |
3 | Purity of Mind (1) | 221 |
4 | Purity of Mind (2) | 222 |
5 | Purification of the Mind | 223 |
6 | The Power of Mind | 225 |
7 | Every Mind has its own Standard of Good and Bad | 226 |
8 | The Impression of Illness and Weakness on the Mind | 227 |
9 | Keeping the Mind in a Pure Condition | 228 |
10 | Keeping the Mind Free from All Undesirable Impressions | 229 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | Purity of Heart | 232 |
2 | Keeping the Heart Pure | 232 |
3 | The Radiance of the Face | 233 |
4 | Innocence | 234 |
5 | Reject the Impression of Errors and Shortcomings | 235 |
6 | Purity of the Heart | 236 |
7 | Exaltation | 236 |
8 | Purify the Mind from Fear | 237 |
9 | Keep the Heart Free from Poison | 238 |
10 | The Real Purification of Mind | 239 |
TASAWWUF (Metaphysics) | 241 | |
GATHA I | ||
1 | Belief | 243 |
2 | Faith | 245 |
3 | Hope | 246 |
4 | Patience | 247 |
5 | Fear | 249 |
6 | Justice | 250 |
7 | Reason | 251 |
8 | Logic | 252 |
9 | Temptation | 252 |
10 | Tolerance | 253 |
GATHA II | ||
1 | Forgiveness | 255 |
2 | Endurance (1) | 256 |
3 | Endurance (2) | 257 |
4 | Will-power | 258 |
5 | Keeping a Secret | 260 |
6 | Mind | 261 |
7 | Thought | 262 |
8 | Tawakul; Dependence upon God | 264 |
9 | Piety | 265 |
10 | Spirituality | 266 |
GATHA III | ||
1 | Attitude | 268 |
2 | Sympathy | 269 |
3 | The Word 'Sin' | 271 |
4 | Kaza and Kadr: The Will, Human and Divine | 273 |
5 | Opinion | 276 |
6 | Conscience | 278 |
7 | Conventionality | 280 |
8 | Life | 284 |
9 | The Word 'Shame' | 289 |
10 | Tolerance | 292 |