The Origins of Heart Rhythm Meditation

Hazrat Inayat Khan was a mystic born in India in 1882, who came to America in 1910. He lived thereafter in London, England during WWI, and then in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris, France, where he formed his school. He died in India in 1927.

He extended the ancient "Prayer of the Heart" to all relgions and to no religion, and strengthened it by adding the full breath and the physical heartbeat.

"Peace comes when self is in harmony with the rhythm of the heart. This is accomplished in silent meditation when one enters into the life-stream in the heart so that it takes up the proper pulsation."

"If there is any form of concentration to be used in meditation, it consists in first getting into the rhythm of the heart, by watching the heartbeats, feeling them and harmonizing with them. Then one centers all feeling in the physical heart and out of feeling selects love, and out of love, Divine Love."

Hazrat Inayat Khan said, "A mystic is one who seeks Truth, in any tradition or outside of any tradition. Everyone wants to claim Truth for their own group, but it cannot be narrowed or contained for it is the essence of wisdom; it comes from pure experience and it abides by no dogma or rules."

"The lineage we follow originated from the ancient school of Egyptian mysteries, a school which existed even before Abraham, the father of three great religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Our teachings are neither a religion nor a philosophy, neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

For a database of the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, click Database.

The Teaching of the Heart "There are three ways of seeking God in the human heart." More...

"Our one moral principle is this: that the whole of humanity is like one body, and any organ of that body which is hurt or troubled can indirectly cause damage to the whole body." More...

IAM is one of several organizations which continues the lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan. IAM was started as a school of meditation at the direct request of the son and successor of Hazrat Inayat Khan, in 1988.