Glossary
Welcome
antipodal
atom
Bach, Johann Sebastian
bandwidth
Big Bang Theory
Buddha
Buddhism
catalyst
cell
Church
cross-pollinate
Dervish
Deuter
Earth
Ekagrata
electron
epiphanic
extrapolate
fractal
hadith
hologram
Khan, Hazrat Inayat
Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat
Khan, Pir Zia
Kirlian photography
light year
magnetic field
maya
molecule
Mosque
n-dimensional
Nirvana
Nirvitarka
peri-personal
perspicacity
Pir o Murshid
quintessence
Reincarnation
retina
Samadhi
Satipathana
Shabistari, Mahmood
stalwart
Synagogue
transducer
Vichara
Vitarka
wave interference
|
|
Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat
Go back
Mysticism, Psychology, Science
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was born in London in 1916, the son of the Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan and Ora Ray Baker. His early years were thus imbued with both the rich mystical tradition of the East and the heritage of the West. His later training also reflects the synthesis of East and West. He studied philosophy and graduated with a degree in psychology from Paris University, later did postgraduate work at Oxford, and also studied music at l'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. He then began an intensive practice of meditation in India an the Middle East with Sufi masters and teachers of various meditative disciplines, and carried our long periods of seclusion and retreat. In 1926 his father names him to be his successor and head of the Sufi Order and the Confraternity of the Message. Later, when he came of age, he was confirmed as Pir-O-Murshid by the Sufis in Ajmer, India. In accordance with this background, Pir Vilayat exemplifies the global consciousnes of the emerging holistic age, allowing him to fulfill his position as successor to Hazrat Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan in the line of Murshids of the Chisti Order, and present the message of unity.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan is now a well-know teacher of meditation, presenting seminars, camps and retreats throughout the United States, Western Europe, and India. The training he gives integrates a broad spectrum of meditation techniques from many traditions. In seminars intended especially for psychologists and educators, he demonstrates ways to adapt meditation to the needs and traumas of people in our age. A particular focus in the current work is his dedication to the retreat format as means of enabling personal transformation.
Owing to his efforts to bridge the experience of contemplatives and the findings of physicists, biologists and psychologists, he is a popular speaker at symposia on science, religion and holistic medicine. He has convened religious congresses in various parts of the world, bringing together teachers from a variety of denominations in mutual respect and recognition of their underlying unity.
Source: an introductory pamphlet on the Sufi Order International
|
