The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 01
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 20 Jan 1987 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 41min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 45min. Quality: not so good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | MESS201 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- And an orator said, speak to us of freedom.
- And he answered:
- At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
- Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
- Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.
- And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfilment.
- You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
- But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
- And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?
- In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes.
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