The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
That one is living whose sympathy is awake; and that one is dead whose heart is asleep.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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The real life is not limited by thought or action. The real life is not qualified by mind or matter. The real life is not restricted because personality is subject to certain laws. And how does the real life express itself? The essence of life is in the heart and nowhere in the human being if not in the heart. Yet when once discovered in the heart it can be found in every particle of one's nature and makeup.
Without heart, the human is merely animal or less than animal; with heart one becomes as a god. The energy of heart is life itself and the heart awakened brings the life to the surface.