The Bowl of Saki Commentary

Commentary for:

The more you evolve spiritually, the further you pass from the understanding of every human.

— Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):

Human beings are held within the change of limited experience or samsara. At best they contact the manasic stream in their mental sphere and rarely, if ever, trust to their intuitions. They coin their forms of logic and common sense, which mean nothing in eternity, often to justify their injustice and defend their iniquity. Their laws, being based neither upon Nature nor God, are subject to change, decay, and dissolution.

The wise, seeking the eternal verities, are bound neither by such logic nor such law. They may stand alone in the midst of the ignorant, but they know how to stand; they know the limits of ignorance, and they possess that knowledge which all, consciously and unconsciously, yearn for.