Author: Hazrat Inayat Khan
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 267
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120806107
Description
This is the fifth volume of the Indian edition of all the works of Hazrat Inayat Khan, the great Sufi mystic who lectured and taught in the western world. This book and other volumes in this series contain his lectures, discourses and other teachings as taken down in shorthand.
The complete series contains fourteen volumes. Each volume is complete in itself, 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.
This volume is a book on love, integrating the human aspects of it with its divine essence. Spiritual liberty is a prerequisite for this integration. It refers to a state where one is no longer dependent on outer circumstances and on the fancies of one’s mind.
Therefore it is also a book on the spiritual path which leads man from imperfection to perfection, from self-consciousness to ever-flowing sympathy. It is the path of the unfoldment of the soul. The soul is the lightning spark of the Divine Sun within ourselves. It is the most original part of our being, which will be the only part lasting forever, ultimately unified in its divine origin. Thus it is a book on birth and death also, on life here and in the hereafter, on reincarnation and spirits.
All these items are treated from both the philosophical and the psychological points of view, and integrated by the mystical perspective.
Contents
Preface to the Series
Preface to Volume V
A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty
Aqibat, Life after Death
The Phenomenon of the Soul
Love, Human and Divine
Pearls from the Ocean Unseen
Metaphysics