The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
It is a patient pursuit to bring water from the depth of the ground; one has to deal with much mud in digging before one reaches the water of life.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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What is this mud? It is the impure human thought, due from the habit of mind being so dependent upon matter and form. Mind may act independent of all these forms, receiving its knowledge from essence. When the intuitive faculty is aroused, you can know all about the earthly conditions and find it possible to improve these conditions, whether directly connected with yourself or pertaining to the world at large.
Purity of thought means to let God do your thinking, to keep whole-heartedly in devotion to God, which brings all knowledge. So long as you place any value upon your intellect, your memory, your experiences, you cannot reach the highest state. These form the mud and clouds and phantasms of life.