The Bowl of Saki Commentary

Truth metaphysically connotes all that is beyond the mental sphere, while falsehood is all that lives upon the shadow forms of the lower worlds. Truth is of the nature of Light and therefore of energy, while falsehood is of the nature of passing or incidental phenomena. The cause of falsehood is the nufs, that thought of self; where nufs does not exist there can be no falsehood. Therefore angels always tell the truth, but there is no merit in it. The successful person is one who, unlike the angels, has the ability to cling to falsehood and does not. Then one becomes master of all the energy and dominates the three worlds.