Topic: Hazrat Inayat Khan

[Nichi]

The teaching, "Be wise as a serpent," may be interpreted, "Be quiet as a serpent."  It is quietude that gives wisdom and power. The thought held in mind speaks to the mind of another, but the thought spoken out most often only reaches the ears of a person.

Every plan has a period of development; if man has power over his impulse, by retaining the thought silently in mind he allows the plan to develop and to take all necessary changes that it may take for its culmination. But when the impulse expresses the thought, it, so to speak, puts out the flame, thus hindering the development of the plan. The wise speak with their mind many times before they speak about it to anybody.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan

[Nichi]

There is no scripture in which contradiction does not exist. It is the contradiction which makes the music of the message.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

[Nichi]

Truth without a veil is always uninteresting to the human mind.

~Hazrat Inayat Khan

[Nichi]

The truth cannot be spoken; that which can be spoken is not the truth.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

Truth is that which can never be spoken in words and that which can be spoken in words is not the truth.

The ocean is the ocean; the ocean is not a few drops of water that one puts in a bottle. Just so truth cannot be limited by words: truth must be experienced... .the truth cannot be put into words; all we can do is make an effort to render the mystery of life intelligible to our minds.

Very often people ask, "What is the nature of truth, is it a theory, a principle, a philosophy, or a doctrine?" All theories, philosophies, principles, and doctrines are only a cover over the truth. The ultimate truth is that which cannot spoken, for words are too inadequate to express it.

There is a well known Eastern legend giving the idea of a soul who had found truth. There was a wall of laughter and of smiles. This wall existed for ages and many tried to climb it, but few succeeded. Those who had climbed upon it saw something beyond, and so interested were they that they smiled, climbed over the wall and never returned. The people of the town began to wonder what magic could there be and what attraction, that whoever climbed the wall never returned. So they called it the wall of mystery.

Then they said, 'We must make an enquiry and send someone who can reach the top, but we must tie him with a rope to hold him back.' When the man they had thus sent reached the top of the wall, he smiled and tried to jump over it, but they pulled him back.

Still he smiled, and when the people eagerly asked, 'what did you see there?' he did not answer, he only smiled.

This is the condition of the seer. The man who in the shrine of his heart has seen the vision of God, the one who has the realization of truth, can only smile, for words can never really explain what truth means.

[Nichi]

Things that seem real to an average person are unreal in the eyes of the mystic, and the things that seem unreal in the eyes of the average person are real in the eyes of the mystic. Little things that people take to heart will seem to him of little importance; things that people become confused with will become clear to him; things that matter so much to everyone will not matter to him; many things that frighten and horrify people will not have the same effect upon him; disappointments and failures will not take away his hope and courage. His thought, speech, and action change: as his outlook becomes wide, so everything he says or does will be different. In the first place mystical life is a puzzle, in the second place a bewilderment, and in the third place a miracle.

There comes a time when all that he had accepted in his mind , all that he believed in, appears to be quite the opposite of what they seemed. Imagine an evolved person being more bewildered than an unevolved one. And yet it is so, for at this stage a man begins to see that things are not as they seem.

From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN


".....a puzzle, a bewilderment, and a miracle....." 

[Nichi]

There is a stage of evolution in one's life when one arrives at a stage when every question is answered by the life around him. For every thought of a sage, everything becomes an accommodation to help it to resound, and in this resonance there is an answer. In point of fact the answer is in the question itself. The answer wells up from the depth of all existence, like the sound of a bell being struck, or the splash of water, or the crackle of the firecracker: each reveals its condition when struck, like the knock on the door. The first sign one notices after the awakening of the soul is that one begins to see from two points of view.

One begins to see the right of the wrong and the wrong of the right. In failure one will not feel such disappointment, and in success not such a great joy. In adverse conditions one will not be so dejected, in favorable conditions not so conceited. One begins to see that everything is reflected in its opposite. In this way one rises above logic, which then begins to appear as an elementary knowledge. It is a kind of double view of things. And when one has reached this, then reason has made way for higher reasoning. No doubt one's language will become gibberish to others; people will not understand it. To some it will be too simple, to others too subtle.

From The Teachings Of HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

[Nichi]

One will always find that the most evolved sages can be amused; that is why they are pleasant to meet and to speak to. Worrying comes from self-pity and fear, and fear is made of the clouds of ignorance; the light will dissolve it. Humor is the sign of light: when the light from above touches the mind it tickles the mind, and it is the tickling of mind which produces humor.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

[Qarille]

There is a stage of evolution in one's life when one arrives at a stage when every question is answered by the life around him. For every thought of a sage, everything becomes an accommodation to help it to resound, and in this resonance there is an answer. In point of fact the answer is in the question itself. The answer wells up from the depth of all existence, like the sound of a bell being struck, or the splash of water, or the crackle of the firecracker: each reveals its condition when struck, like the knock on the door. The first sign one notices after the awakening of the soul is that one begins to see from two points of view.

One begins to see the right of the wrong and the wrong of the right. In failure one will not feel such disappointment, and in success not such a great joy. In adverse conditions one will not be so dejected, in favorable conditions not so conceited. One begins to see that everything is reflected in its opposite. In this way one rises above logic, which then begins to appear as an elementary knowledge. It is a kind of double view of things. And when one has reached this, then reason has made way for higher reasoning. No doubt one's language will become gibberish to others; people will not understand it. To some it will be too simple, to others too subtle.

From The Teachings Of HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

[runningstream]

there comes a point in the life of the faithful

that merges like a fire in the water with the sky above

when this occurs

everything not only answers like a question yet moves everything together by its mention

at this point dreamers and thinkers will appear silly by their steadfast belief that a separation exists

and at the realization of no here and there there appears no point to leave for anything other than


the life which is shared on all sides east west north south


as all roads lead only to the actualization of what is seen into infusion of the environment itself


at this point a battle begins


the battle is for the cease of battles and the indication of skies


as what cannot stand in the sky disappears so appears to be the logic to those on the ground