Gayan Vadan Nirtan

Sayings, poems, and prayers from the heart of Hazrat Inayat Khan.
Hazrat Inayat Khan once said, “What is spoken from the heart reaches the heart.” The sayings, poems, and prayers in Gayan Vadan Nirtan have come directly from the illumined heart and soul of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Containing the essence of Inayat Khan’s teachings, they are addressed to the deepest places of feeling and knowing within us. This new edition includes previously omitted sayings that new archival research has authenticated. The sayings are being minimally edited for inclusive language, following the practices carried out in the Centennial Edition Sufi Message volumes.

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 1927) came to Europe and America from his native India with a message of love, harmony, and beauty that was a new approach to harmonizing Western and Eastern spirituality. He established a school of spiritual training based upon traditional Sufi teachings infused with the vision of the unity of religious ideals and the awakening of humanity to the divinity within. Inayat Khan died in India in 1927, leaving a significant body of recorded discourse and instruction on all things pertaining to spiritual ideals in the midst of life in the world.