The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
The Bowl of Saki Commentary, copyright © 1981, 2012 Sufi Ruhaniat International. All rights reserved.
When this is understood, really understood, all smallness will disappear; there will be no war nor pain nor suffering. It is the idea of self—any idea that we attach to our mind—which stabs the very essence of mind and begins that process from which all sorrow arises. Voluntary surrender of self does not destroy mind, does not harm body, and does not annihilate self. Rather it annihilates that thought of self which is given erroneously the name of self.
No one can pretend to the cosmic state. Thought of Sufism or of being a Sufi—even of submitting to the disciplines and practices—does not make one a Sufi. Attainment and only attainment makes one a Sufi. It is wrong ever to call oneself a Sufi, but there are such souls who have lost all consciousness and feeling of distinction and separation, and through them the Spirit of Guidance pours blessings upon the world.