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Meaning of Life: Inayat Khan's Remarkable Teaching

Every soul is striving for what it longs for all the time, each in its own particular way.
Sufi Mohamed

by Sufi Mohamed

spirituality

This piece presents teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the Indian musician and Sufi teacher who brought Sufism to the West. His lectures on this theme are collected in The Alchemy of Happiness, volume 6 of The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan (Inayat Khan, 2015).

Meaning of life

The soul has come here for the purpose that it may realise and understand the meaning of life.

Every soul is striving for what it longs for all the time, each in its own particular way.

References

Inayat Khan, H. (2015). The Sufi message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Vol. 6. The alchemy of happiness. Motilal Banarsidass.

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