The Bowl of Saki Commentary

Commentary for:

The only power for the mystic is the power of love.

— Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):

This has two explanations: There is one Power in the Universe, and that Power is Love. This one Power is that Universal Energy which we have been calling Life or Light. This is only a naming of it; it is not a description of it. It is this same Power which gave rise to the Universe producing the positive and negative vibrations and atoms which directly or indirectly gave rise to all planes and all forms.

Now what is or was this Power? It is the Power which comes from letting go, from losing the self, the Power which arises from non-attachment to personality. And that is nothing but Love. God so loved, that God created. And God so loved the world that was created that God permitted this Power to appear in fullness in a human being. Such is the mystery of Christhood, that gave everyone the opportunity first to witness, and then through example to attain to, the fullness of this Power of Love while in the human body in the physical world. This was the very purpose of creation.