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Original Language English	A Still Cup
Commentary by Ivan M. Granger Themes   Lover and Beloved   Wine         Recommended Books The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, by Daniel Ladinsky I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, by Daniel Ladinsky Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz, by Daniel Ladinsky	For God To make love, For the divine alchemy to work, The Pitcher needs a still cup. Why Ask Hafiz to say Anything more about Your most Vital Requirement?     -- from The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, by Daniel Ladinsky Amazon.com
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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

And what is the "still cup" that Hafiz says is needed?

The cup is the individual awareness. Our minds must be profoundly still, unagitated, for God -- the "Pitcher" -- to pour the nectar of bliss into each of us as individual containers of the divine.

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