The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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The wise, by studying nature, enter into unity through its variety, and realize the personality of God by sacrificing their own.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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It should not be supposed that Allah does not have a physical body. All nature, all the physical world, constitutes this body just as all the mental world constitutes the sheath of Allah's Mind. We cannot so easily see the inside of our body and cognize the various activities going on in the organs and cells, in the nerves and blood stream. In some mysterious way these constitute a unity, but such unity is fundamental to their existence.
Similarly, all the functions and species of nature are dependent upon a Cosmic Unity, which is reflected in them and is causal to them, but which does not consist of them. To understand this more fully, one must find out God's Mind in order to understand God's Body. This can only be done when one's own mind, and so one's own personality, is left behind in one's spiritual unfoldment.