Pir Vilayat Khan Quotes
Everything is energy in motion.
Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat. Awakening: A Sufi Experience. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999.
This quotation illustrates how scientifically sophisticated some of the Founding Fathers were.
Vilayat Inayat Khan was a teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the East Indian Chishti Sufi sect of Sufism. His teaching derived from the tradition of his father, Inayat Khan, founder of The Sufi Order in the West (now named the Ināyati Order), in a form tailored to the needs of Western seekers. One of his sisters was Noor Inayat Khan GC MBE. He taught in the tradition of universal Sufism, which views all religions as rays of light from the same sun. His parents met at the New York City ashram of American yogi, Pierre Bernard, half-brother of his mother Pirani Ameena Begum.