289 pagesThe Soul's Journey brings a modern Sufi perspective to the essential questions about the nature and meaning of life, exploring the experience of the soul as it extends outward toward manifestation, during its life on earth, and finally as it draws back to its source in the one being.
In this book Inayat Khan offers the spiritual seeker an authentic and invaluable map of the territory we call human life. He presents abstract and complex issues with a simplicity that is engaging and even disarming. The Soul's Journey is an illuminating guide for anyone seeking to understand the depths of his or her own true nature. Where did we come from? What are we doing here? Where are we going? And what is the meaning of it all?
This is a more complete and authentic version of material that has been previously published as The Soul: Whence and Wither.
Editor's Note: The Soul's Journey, originally called The Soul: Whence and Whither, has a complex editorial history, with this edition representing the sixth editing of the lectures presented here. The lectures themselves were given during the Sufi summer school in Suresnes, France, in 1923, carefully taken down in shorthand by a Dutch mureed, Sakina Furnee, whom Inayat Khan assigned the important task of recording his lectures.
The first edition of the book appeared in 1924, printed in Southhampton, England. Exactly how and by whom this first edition was prepared remains controversial, but that text differed considerably from the accurate shorthand record. In 1927 a revised edition corrected errors in the first, yet Murshida Goodenough, Inayat Khan's designated editor, left a note indicating that a new edition was needed.
Hazrat Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order International, came to the West as a representative of the highest musical traditions of his native India, and brought with him a message of love, harmony and beauty that was both the quintessence of Sufi teaching and a revolutionary approach to the harmonizing of Western and Eastern spirituality. He dedicated his early life to the mastery of subtle intricacies of classical Indian music, winning the high title of Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad, a powerful ruler and renowned patron of the musical arts.
In fulfillment of his quest for a spiritual teacher, Inayat Khan took initiation from Shaykh al-Mashaykh Sayed Muhammed Abu Hashim Madani. While he was an inititator of the four main Sufi lineages in India, Madani's primary connection was with the Chishti Order. At the end of his apprenticeship, Inayat Khan was enjoined by his teacher to travel to the West and harmonize the two cultures.
On September 13 of 1910 Inayat Khan began an odyssey which would encompass three continents, and transform the lives of thousands. He eventually settled in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris. During his sixteen years in the West, he created a school of spiritual training based upon the traditional teachings of the Chishti Sufis, and infused with a revolutionary vision of the unity of religious ideals and the awakening of humanity to the divinity within.
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