The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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Until one loses oneself in the vision of God, one cannot be said to live really.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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That is to say, the limited life is not life. Mortality, which says life and death are two, not one, is not life. From one point of view, we die not only daily but with every breath. Attachment is birth and freedom from attachment is death. Therefore one must become free from every sort of attachment or clinging. One must become free.
And how does one become free? It is through apprehension of God which comes through God's Grace given to those who lose themselves in God. God's Grace is everywhere but we shut it out by our attachment. Detachment brings Grace and Grace brings detachment; they are one, not two.
Baqa, or awakening to the real self, is not something phenomenal or super-phenomenal. It is living with open eyes, with open consciousness, with understanding. It belongs neither to time nor space nor relativity. Until it is actually experienced, all consideration of it is vain. By shutting out self, one discovers it automatically.