Despite his nearly superhuman efforts to rise above the demands of ordinary life, Buddha ultimately discovered that those kinds of hardships did not in themselves catalyze spiritual awakening. Yet there is a symbolic wisdom to be found in the pattern of his life story, When consciousness is lifted beyond the vantage point of the individual ego, It becomes cosmic. -- Pir Vilayat Khan in "Awakening"
So too in the life story of Hazrat Inayat Khan.