The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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A gain or loss which is momentary is not real; if we knew realities we should never grieve over the loss of anything which experience shows to be only transitory.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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The human being is greater than anything in the physical or mental world. One cannot take the wealth of this world into Malakut, and all of Malakut is one's possession when one enters Djabrut. We understand when leaving this world we cannot carry away its possessions, but we can carry thoughts and these thoughts deter the pilgrim in the higher life.
The human being is a mirror which reflects all things in the worlds above or below. The sahib-i-dil, knowing this, do not have to accumulate knowledge. They see what they need reflected in mind, be that knowledge from the worlds above or below. This is a great wonder incomprehensible to average people. Yet the sage attaches no value to the faculty. Soul sees because it sees and when no longer confined to a narrow sphere by mind, all gains and losses pass away. In the infinite are all things.