The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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One thing is true: although the teacher cannot give the knowledge, the teacher can kindle the light if the oil is in the lamp.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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This oil is love, and the lamp is the heart. Once the flame even flickers a bit, it starts a commotion and a motion which reaches to the furthest parts of one's being. Often this occurs in sorrow or in trepidation, yet it awakens the life-spark in one to the real life. Thus this awakening comes with sympathy and understanding. If one then keeps in the rhythm of the heart and watches the heart fully, all things become clear in the light and life of the heart, and that very attitude fans the flame therein to greater brightness.