The Bowl of Saki Commentary

Real wealth, even from the material standpoint, is measured by the profits one gains from life when the resources are greater than the liabilities. There is a great truth in it, for if one has many possessions but has greater liabilities, one is in reality poor either from the standpoint of accounting or metaphysics. One may become bankrupt either in the world's court or in God's court.

Now those who have surrendered the things of the world by that gain mental control over the world. They have what they want and need and do not have what they do not want or need. If one diminishes one's wants, one will suffice with less, and if this sufficiency gives one everything one desires and requires, one is wealthy. While the holder of riches, who must give thought to the riches, does not own them but is only a holder.

Likewise, one who has renounced the knowledge of the world has all knowledge, for the heart can then peer into the mind of anyone and take from the sphere whatsoever it needs. This gives it all wealth, wealth of knowledge, wealth of culture, wealth of beauty, wealth of power, wealth of possessions in name and form. All these belong to the one who belongs to God.