The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
The knowledge of self is the essential knowledge; it gives the knowledge of humanity. In the understanding of the human being lies that understanding of nature which reveals the law of creation.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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All human beings were made with essentially similar bodies, essentially similar mind-capacities, and essentially similar hearts. To understand one is to understand all. It is not necessary to dissect everybody's stomach either with the knife or with the analytical faculty of mind to understand nutrition. At best these give but a partial knowledge. The human body is a miniature cosmos and the human mind is a miniature super-cosmos if one only knew it, but until one understands one's own body and one's own mind one cannot understand the laws of relations.
Yet body and mind are not the self; these are but the outcroppings of self, which lies hidden deep beneath the vehicles with which it is clothed. All creation tends toward humanity, both the creation of the seen worlds including rock, plant, and animal and the creation of the unseen worlds-the elementals, jinns, and angels. All tend toward the human being in the highest expression of God.