The Messiah Vol 1 ~ 22

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event type discourse
date & time 19 Jan 1987 am
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 2h 58min. Quality: good.
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video Available, duration 3h 5min. Quality: not good, a constant audio-noise.
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shorttitle MESS122
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synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
The sutra
If any of you would bring to judgment the unfaithful wife,
Let him also weigh the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.
And let him who would lash the offender look unto the spirit of the offended.
And if any of you would punish in the name of righteousness and lay the axe unto the evil tree, let him see to its roots;
And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth.
And you judges who would be just.
What judgment pronounce you upon him who though honest in the flesh is yet a thief in spirit?
What penalty lay you upon him who slays in the flesh yet is himself slain in the spirit?
And how prosecute you him who in action is a deceiver and an oppressor,
Yet who also is aggrieved and outraged?
And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
Is not remorse the justice which is administered by the very law which you would fain serve?
Yet you cannot lay the remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty.
Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.
And you who would understand justice, how shall you unless you look upon all deeds in the fullness of light?
Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pygmy-self and the day of his god-self.
And that the corner stone of the temple is not higher than the lowest stone in its foundation.


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