The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
Each individual composes the music of their own life; if one injures another they break the harmony, and there is discord in the melody of their life.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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The music of our being consists not only in the sounds or thoughts or feelings we have that are pleasant to us, but in the sounds or thoughts or feelings we have that do not cause pain to others. We have in life two relations-our relations to ourselves and to others. When we are ill or suffer in any manner this can be due to the injury we have done to ourselves, or the injury we have heedlessly permitted another to do to us. For the spiritual student the first is ignorance, the second heedlessness—so in either case no one else is to blame.
That is to say, once the heart is awakened we do wrong in allowing others to injure us and we do still greater wrong in injuring others. When the heart is pure, the thoughts will be pure, and the melodies of voice—whether sung or spoken—will be pure, the breath will be pure, the atmosphere will be pure, and God's Radiance flowing through the personality will bring peace.