The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
Love is the best means of making the heart capable of reflecting the soul-power; and love in the sense of pain rather than of pleasure. Every blow opens a door whence the soul-power comes forth.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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This love means the abandonment of nufs; it means self-sacrifice. By it all the fruits of separated individualism are eschewed. The pain of love comes from the breaking of a habit or an attachment, and this always brings pain, but that is only the external aspect of it. If there were no energy or power, there could be no pain, and the better we are able to withstand pain, the greater the spiritual power we can exhibit. This growth of the spirit is only possible through esoteric training or through prolonged suffering, and the first is always greatly to be preferred, for without destroying, it enables us to live through it.