The Messiah Vol 1 ~ 19
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event type | discourse |
date & time | 17 Jan 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 2h 42min. Quality: good. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 49min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | MESS119 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- And a merchant said, speak to us of buying and selling.
- And he answered and said:
- To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.
- It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
- Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
- When in the marketplace you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices,
- Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value.
- And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labor.
- To such men you should say:
- "Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net;
- For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."
- And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, buy of their gifts also.
- For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.
- And before you leave the marketplace, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.
- For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satisfied.
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