The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
The giver is greater than the gift.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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For giving itself increases the greatness of heart and mind. Whatever one attaches value to, the value is in the attachment not in the thing, and this is a false value. There is nothing in the universe so valuable as that which can be given away yet retained in the giving such as the heart-qualities, which spring from love. All else is valuable only because humanity considers it so.