The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Commentary for:
The plain truth is too simple for the seekers after complexity, who are looking for things they cannot understand.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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The emotional stir of things and the intoxication of the outer life are the great detriments. One who has become accustomed to them grows to love complexities. Now heart is not complex although heart may be considered as "involved." That is to say, one cannot by simple analysis find heart. Heart is simple but not analyzable. One cannot express the greater in terms of the smaller and still understand the greater. The human being is an aggregate of cells, let us say. Yet we can study physical cells forever and never discover the human. This shows there is something missing in analysis.
That there is something missing in analysis every little child knows-as well as a loving mother and a kind father, often quite involuntarily-for it is the very nature of life that causes them to feel this something. This is Ishk, the great life-force of the Universe which is tendered to everyone through Divine Guidance.