The Bowl of Saki Commentary

There are three apparent aspects of life, they being apparent not real. The first is the complete Pleroma, the fullness of all things, which is God, which includes all others and touches them within and without, and yet the Pleroma is not touched by them, even as the sun is not affected by earth or clouds.

Then there is the life in creation—for creation or prakrit or nature could not be if there were not life. In its sphere of forms and forces, there is the interplay of mineral, animal, and vegetable worlds; into this arena one is drawn and becomes the prey of samsara.

Then there is life as viewed from the individual standpoint, regarding each soul as separated; this is the human point of view and stands between the other viewpoints. But this view is an illusion, and the whole purpose of human existence is to enable us to escape this illusion.