The Bowl of Saki Commentary

Commentary for:

The higher you rise, the wider becomes the margin of your view.

— Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):

Mind can only see what it has experienced, but the mind of an intelligent person will consider what others have experienced. However, all the experience and knowledge of all people is beyond the ken of any one. This grand view is only possible to hold in the heart, which may be attuned to the whole universe. When one has love for all humankind, one can feel—even as a mother or father would—the condition of humankind, the need of humankind.

And one can extend this feeling to animal, plant, rock, and even beyond space and time and sphere as the heart expands. Extension of view increases capacity of heart, and increase of capacity of heart extends view. This is all caused by Ishk and is nothing but Ishk.