Sara S
04-14-2012, 06:55 AM
The one who wants to understand will understand. -- Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti):
This is the condition of will leading the mind. The will, being the efflux of the soul, wants to unite with God. The thought wants to turn the will toward variety. This brings about the struggle between peace and unity on the one hand and intoxication and variety on the other. Understanding comes from the grasping of unity, which is possible when selfhood is laid aside and the faculty of discrimination is lulled into quiescence.
Commentary on The Bowl of Saki of Hazrat Inayat Khan
by Murshid Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti
(c) 1978 Sufi Ruhaniat International, 410 Precita Avenue, San Francisco CA 94110, www.ruhaniat.org
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti):
This is the condition of will leading the mind. The will, being the efflux of the soul, wants to unite with God. The thought wants to turn the will toward variety. This brings about the struggle between peace and unity on the one hand and intoxication and variety on the other. Understanding comes from the grasping of unity, which is possible when selfhood is laid aside and the faculty of discrimination is lulled into quiescence.
Commentary on The Bowl of Saki of Hazrat Inayat Khan
by Murshid Sufi Ahmed Murad Chishti
(c) 1978 Sufi Ruhaniat International, 410 Precita Avenue, San Francisco CA 94110, www.ruhaniat.org