The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
No one has seen God and lived. To see God we must be non-existent.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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It is the human mind which determines human existence. When one rises above the mind-mesh, existence continues but one does not. That is to say, the life in God is the non-existence of human life. So long as we exist as self we remain below the mind-mesh; in the life above the mind-mesh there is no self as we understand it.