The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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To deny the changeableness of life is like fancying a motionless sea, which can only exist in one's imagination.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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Even the concept of Nirvanais not stillness. It is a ceaseless, rhythmical activity. Life is motion, love is motion, and light is motion. Stillness represents the condition of the cipher, Nirvanathat of infinity. There can be no real idea of stillness because even conceiving stillness is an activity of mind. The control of mind activity through spiritual contemplation is an activity of heart and soul. The paralysis of mind through drugs or hypnotism is a chemical activity which disposes mind-activity in the first instance, and the activity of another's mind in the second instance. When the chemical forces abate or when the mind of another loses control, mind again functions.
The saying, "Nature abhors a vacuum," extends beyond the physical. It means that whenever there is a withdrawal there is a compensation elsewhere. It is only by force that force can be withdrawn; so even cessation of movement is dependent upon movement.