The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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Life is what it is; you cannot change it; but you can always change yourself.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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From the spiritual point of view this Life is infinite, subject to neither change nor influence of finite forces. It has its characteristics which have been enumerated or described by humanity, but this Life is more than its characteristics. It can never be changed; it can never be ended; it is eternal in every direction. Ya Hayy!
From the outer point of view, what is called life is the result of the composite Karma of all creatures working in the sphere of the higher form or mode of Life. That is to say, there is Life, which is entirely separated from the sphere of Limitation, and there is life in the bosom of which there is the action and reaction of all the minute forces of creation. Out of the second form of life comes darkness, tribulation, night, and all evil, but the higher Life is never affected by it, any more than the sun is destroyed by fog.