Tales : What are you waiting for?
It happened once that Mullah Nasruddin made a long journey on foot to a distant city, and when he arrived there, he was worn out, and extremely hungry. Unfortunately, he Continue Reading →
Category: English
Hazrat Inayat : Stages of Self-Realisation pt III
In his continuing explanation of the steps toward realisation, Hazrat Inayat Khan shows that they correspond with advancing stages of belief. The previous post is here. Then there is a Continue Reading →
Tukaram : All men to me are god-like Gods!
For more about the 17th century Maharashtran poet Tukaram, see this earlier post, and this one. All men to me are god-like Gods! My eyes no longer see vice or fault. Life Continue Reading →
Glimpses : The Appointed Time
Once [said Hazrat Inayat Khan] I put to music a verse of an inspired poet of Persia, and I sang it with great joy, for the words had a beautiful Continue Reading →
Bistami : I erred in four things
Bayazid – or Abu Yazid – Bistami (804 – 874 CE) was an ecstatic Sufi from the small city of Bastam in north central Persia. Very little is known about Continue Reading →
Hazrat Inayat : Stages of Self-Realisation pt II
In the first instalment of this series of posts, Hazrat Inayat Khan concluded by saying that if we attempt to begin at the end, we will end at the beginning Continue Reading →
Rabia : Devotions
For more about Rabia al Adawiyya (714? — 801 CE), see this post. “O my God, my work and my desire, in all this world, is recollection of you and Continue Reading →
Tales : The Mullah’s Cure
Mullah Nasruddin was sitting outside the local tea house, doing nothing and letting the sun shine on his beard, when a friend approached him with a face twisted with pain. Continue Reading →
Hazrat Inayat : Stages of Self-Realisation pt I
In this first portion of a series on the path of self-realisation, Hazrat Inayat Khan begins by removing some of the concepts which might stand in our way to the Continue Reading →