The Messiah Vol 1 ~ 14

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event type discourse
date & time 15 Jan 1987 am
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 59min. Quality: good.
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video Available, duration 2h 2min. Quality: not so good.
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see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle MESS114
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
The sutra
And what is it
To work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit,
And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.
Often I have heard you say, as if speaking in sleep,
"He who works in marble and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is nobler than he who ploughs the soil.
And he who seizes the rainbow to lay it on a cloth in the likeness of man, is more than he who makes the sandals for our feet."
But I say, not in sleep, but in the overwakefulness of noontide, that the wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass;
And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work
And sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.


(source:CD-ROM)


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