The Bowl of Saki Commentary

This lifeless knowledge is the knowledge of the lower worlds, which is subject to death. For every time we forget, that is the death of this false knowledge, and every time we become indifferent, some of this ego-coined knowledge loses its false, elemental life. When one masters these elemental thoughts, when one realizes that principles can be understood only by union with these principles and that union connotes nothing but love, then one sees the real relation between head and heart, and the real process of the highest learning and the highest wisdom.