Big Tales: All the stories in the 12 volumes of The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518829338)

Whatsoever road I took, it joined the street which leads to Thee. -The Dabistan I was born in Baroda, India, in the year 1882 when a great religious reform began, not only in India itself, but all the world over, and which was the first source of our present-day awakening ... Music and mysticism were my heritage from both my paternal and maternal ancestors, among whom were numbered Maulabaksh whom people called the Beethoven of India and whose portrait is in the Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington [UK], and Jumma Shah, the great seer of Punjab [India/Pakistan]. -The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Volume 12, Confessions, Chapter 1, "The early stages of my life.