The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 16
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 6 Feb 1987 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 19min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 26min. Quality: not so good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | MESS216 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- And an old priest said, speak to us of religion.
- And he said:
- Have I spoken this day of aught else?
- Is not religion all deeds and all reflection,
- And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?
- Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
- Who can spread his hours before him, saying, "This for God and this for myself; this for my soul and this other for my body"?
- All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.
- He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
- The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
- And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
- The freest song comes not through bars and wires.
- And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.
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