The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
Love has its limitations when it is directed towards limited beings, but love directed to God has no limitations.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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Directed love is like focused light. If even a little of the light of the sun is focused it starts a fire, as can be witnessed by the use of the sunglass. Therefore, while passion has power it is lacking in beauty and destroys either the object of passion or the one manifesting it. In love, power and beauty are in equilibrium and remain so until one is covered by the other.
In true love, whatever its plane, power and beauty are balanced, and such love brings joy although it is not sought for the sake of joy. It is life itself, and when that love, that life, and that beauty are spread out to the Omniscient God, it brings God into our being and we are, as the Bible says, gods indeed.