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Bowl of Saqi for December 3
JOY AND SORROW ARE THE LIGHT AND SHADE OF LIFE.
WITHOUT LIGHT AND SHADE NO PICTURE IS CLEAR.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
Joy produces light and at the same time joy is the result of
light. Nothing stands before joy except false conception of
self. One can therefore escape joy by escaping conception
and at the same time escape sorrow.
Pictures are caused by variations in light and darkness,
also in color. In true love there are no such variations.
Mind is created in order that the soul might see life on the
surface, and it is mind which has capacity for all lights
and shades and colors. Therefore joy and sorrow are
essentially conditions of mind. Pure-essence of mind does
not know sorrow, which is caused by thought of self. Neither
does it know joy although its condition is not different
from what humanity calls joy.
The reason that humanity experiences joy as joy is because
it is a different condition from the other when one feels
sorrow and pain and difficulty. The realized soul no longer
feels sorrow and pain and difficulty; consequently when one
enters the higher states of consciousness one is no longer
intoxicated by them, but understands them to be more natural
than the ordinary state of life.
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