The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 03
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event type | discourse |
date & time | 21 Jan 1987 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 48min. Quality: good. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 56min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | MESS203 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- And the priestess spoke again and said:
- Speak to us of reason and passion.
- And he answered, saying:
- Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
- Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.
- But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
- Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
- If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
- For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
- Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;
- And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
- I would have you consider your judgment and your appetite even as you would two loved guests in your house.
- Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.
- Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows -- then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason."
- And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, -- then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion."
- And since you are a breath in God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
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