The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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The heart of every person, both good and bad, is the abode of God, and care should be taken never to wound anyone by word or act.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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If there were not some good in the human heart, life in the physical body would be impossible because the blood would be carrying poison to every cell and muscle and gland. We even see some strange deaths called heart failure, or given other names, which result from psychic poison impregnating the physical body.
Every harsh human thought immediately affects two fluids: the vital fluid or energy called "prana" which flows in and out with the breath, and the Universal Life-Love Essence which holds the very earth together, which is the heart energy. The harsh thought through prana affects chiefly the mind of another, for it is directed toward others. But such also is the nature of prana that the exhalation of the breath so operates that it touches the mental body of each person in its course, and whatsoever it gives to another it gives to oneself.
The effect of the heart-energy, which may be considered as the Universal Life-Force, is to strike every human being upon earth, even to affect others upon earth and those in the unseen. The proper use of this heart-energy is called Ishk by the Sufis, Karuna by the Buddhists, and Agape in the New Testament, which can be translated as "selfless love."
There is a difference here in that thoughts affect chiefly the thinker and the thing or person concerned in the thought, whereas the feeling of the heart-energy affects the whole cosmic body of Adam, the Universal Human. In this way, by our feelings and attitudes, we either raise or lower the whole humanity. So when Jesus Christ said, "Love ye one another," when Mohammed taught in the Qur'an that Allah created us from clots of blood, it was in reference to the fact—the great truth of existence—of the Universal Love-Energy.
The Master, the Saint, the Bodhisattva place their consciousness in this great stream, in this ocean of love, and by sending forth their thoughts of loving-kindness they benefit the whole humanity. When these thoughts are individualized they reach a few; otherwise they reach many. This is the reason for silence on the part of sages.