The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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Earthly knowledge is as clouds dimming the sight, and it is the breaking of these clouds-in other words, purity of heart-that gives the capacity for the knowledge of God to rise.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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"Sight" is more powerful than the eyesight and subtler than the mind. This Sight is insight, which is to say, the sight of the soul independent of its vehicles. In the sphere of matter, it is necessary to become accustomed to a light more dim, the very dimness of which beclouds the mind and keeps it in a sort of haze.
It is oneness of purpose, oneness of character, and the freeing of mind from its subservience to matter that takes it from this hazy condition. Purity of body means body as body, purity of mind means mind as mind, purity of heart means heart as heart. The body has its music and its laws, the mind has its music and its laws, and while heart is greater than any law, it still has its music. Therefore spiritual development is an attunement; yet strange and marvelous to tell, this attunement brings with it all knowledge of all planes.