The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
The pain of life is the price paid for the quickening of the heart.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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Heart expands and contracts. The nufs tends to keep the heart in contraction and brings about its hardness. This arises from the illusion of life, for really nufs has no control on heart, yet heart becomes intoxicated in the midst of life and blindly follows. This brings about control of will by mind and creates an unending trouble for everyone.
To open the heart there is a constant pull, and this pull does bring pain. The pain is not necessary, the pull is. But if one has kept the heart closed, has not voluntarily searched for God, then the very purpose and nature of life will cause this pull and accompany it with pain. Even the law of Karma serves not to draw people into the abyss but to bring them to a realization of a higher purpose in life.