The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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There are many paths, and each one of us considers our own the best and wisest. Let each one of us choose that which belongs to our own temperament.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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In the spiritual life, it is not necessary to change one's occupation or livelihood. The doctor may remain a doctor, the artisan may continue as an artisan, the farmer must till the soil, the merchant may keep in business, and the laborer needs to continue at the job. Oftentimes one changes one's pursuit; this is right if one has not been in a position to attain one's ideal at work. But it is wrong to change the ideal. Retain the ideal and attain it.
One should neither advise others to change their direction in life nor turn from one's own path. This is the maxim of the wise, and it holds whether it is change or continuance of pursuit that leads to God. While the God-ward path is the right path, to each one of us is allotted the particular path best for us. In uniformity there is no music; there is harmony when every one of us can find happiness in our own ideal.