The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
Words are but the shadows of thoughts and feelings.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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The nature of feeling is light; the nature of thought is the tenor and tuning. Words are means for objectifying these thoughts and feelings in the material world. Thoughts and feelings are therefore materializations and are of the nature of shadow. So are words, only words come in the form of vibrations, which affect the ears and brains and do not appear as sense-objects. Yet for this sphere and for the cosmos, they are of the nature of shadow.