The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
One who arrives at the state of indifference without experiencing interest in life is incomplete and apt to be tempted by interest at any moment; but one who arrives at the state of indifference by going through interest really attains the blessed state.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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This is very important. Sages all extol the value of indifference, but this indifference comes with an awakened heart. Many people are indifferent in the sense of being callous. Nothing moves them; they are like sticks or stones. That is not the real indifference. That is sloth, and it shows that the soul is asleep, there is no love, and there is no God-vitality.
Now the sages are very different, who know through their own experience the value and the lack of value in attachment in friendship, emotion, and in all of the vicissitudes of life. They surrender all forms of clinging. They no longer cling to anything, and they make an actual surrender. That shows the Divine Indifference.