The Veil of Truth...

The truth need not be veiled, for it veils itself from the eyes of the ignorant.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

The soul, absorbed in its child-like fancies in things that it values and to
which it gives importance, and in the beings to which it attaches itself, blinds
itself by the veils of its illusion. Thus it covers with a thousand veils its
own truth from its own eyes.

Truth is vaster than any frame we can make to put it in. Besides, no matter what
frame we make for truth to be presented in, an unawakened soul will never see
it, but will only see the frame.

With still another step further there comes the realization which may be called
revelation. When the soul is tuned to that state, then the eyes and the ears of
the heart are open to see and hear the word that comes from all sides. In point
of fact every atom of this world, either in heaven or earth, speaks and speaks
aloud. It is the deaf ears of the heart and the closed eyes of the soul which
prevent man from seeing and hearing it. There is a verse of a Hindustani poet
which says:

0' self, it is not the fault of the divine Beloved
that you do not see Him, that you do not hear Him.
He is continually before you and He is continually speaking to you.
If you do not hear it and if you do not see it, it is your own fault.

It is for this purpose that every soul has been created and it is in the
fulfillment of this that man fulfills the object of God. When the spark that is
to be found in every heart, the spark that may be called the divine spark in
man, is blown upon and the flame arises, the whole life becomes illuminated and
man hears and sees and knows, and he understands. A Sufi poet says that every
leaf of the tree becomes like a page of the sacred book when the heart is open
to read it and when the soul has opened its eyes.

We may ask ourselves, 'Who is another?' Then we realize that in the true sense
of being there is but One. When the veil of ignorance is raised there is no
longer any 'I' and 'you', but only the One exists. This is the teaching of the
Bible and of all scriptures.

Man is the most egoistic being in creation. He keeps himself veiled from God,
the perfect Self within, by the veil of his imperfect self, which has formed his
false ego. ... and when the ego is absolutely crushed, then God remains within
and without, in both planes, and none exists save He.