Truth without a veil is always uninteresting to the human mind.
Bowl of Saki, January 3, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Can there be any truth which the human soul has not known? If the soul had not
known it, it could not be truth; for truth is not a knowledge, it is the very
self of man. The truth is not a newly invented theory, not a dogma, not an idea;
it is reality itself. At the back of it is the self of man; therefore it is
simple. But it is not simplicity that man seeks, he is longing for complexity.
Anything which will confuse he is glad to take interest in.
Man likes complexity. He does not want to take only one step; it is more
interesting to look forward to millions of steps. The man who is seeking the
truth gets into a maze, and that maze interests him. He wants to go through it a
thousand times more. It is just like children. Their whole interest is in
running about; they do not want to see the door and go in until they are very
tired. So it is with grown-up people. They all say that they are seeking truth,
but they like the maze.
Man is so fond of illusion that he, so to speak, revels in it. If someone
awakens a man who is having an interesting dream, that man will say, 'Oh, let me
sleep on!' He likes looking at his dream. He does not want to wake up to reality
because reality is not as interesting as the dream. Thus, amongst seekers of
truth, we find only one in a thousand courageous enough to look at the immensity
of truth.
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