Until You Die ~ 07
event type | discourse |
date & time | 17 Apr 1975 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 19min. Quality: good. |
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shorttitle | UNTIL07 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- A man went to a doctor and told him that his wife was not bearing children.
- The physician saw the woman, took her pulse and said: 'I cannot treat you for sterility because I have discovered that you will in any case die within forty days.'
- When she heard this the woman was so worried that she could eat nothing during the ensuing forty days.
- But she did not die at the time predicted, so the husband took the matter up with the doctor, who said:
- 'Yes, I knew that. Now she will be fertile.'
- The husband asked how this came about.
- The doctor told him:
- 'Your wife was too fat, and this was interfering with her fertility. I knew that the only thing that would put her off her food would be the fear of dying. She is now, therefore, cured.'
- The question of knowledge is a very dangerous one.
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