Bowl of Saki for February 23

TRUTH ALONE CAN SUCCEED; FALSEHOOD IS A WASTE OF TIME AND A LOSS OF ENERGY. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by -- Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:

Truth metaphysically connotes all that is beyond the mental sphere, while falsehood is all that lives upon the shadow forms of the lower worlds. Truth is of the nature of light and therefore of energy, while falsehood is of the nature of passing or incidental phenomena. The cause of falsehood is the nufs, that thought of self; where it does not exist there can be no falsehood. Therefore angels always tell the truth, but there is no merit in it. The successful person is one who has the ability to cling to falsehood and does not. He becomes master of all the energy and dominates the three worlds.

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