The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word presents and essential part of the highly
practical philosophy of Hazart Inayat Khan. Born a musician, music and sound
were for him the essence of life. Even when later he had to give up his practice
of what in Indian philosophy is called struck music, the unstruck music remained
with him, and increasingly so. Not only did he enjoy it in his meditations and
all through life, whether in silent nature or in the roaring streets of
Manhattan. In its fullness it came out in his discourses and other presentations
he made to the amazed and yet not fully