The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 24
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 10 Feb 1987 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 34min. Quality: good. |
| online audio | |
| video | Available, duration 1h 26min. Quality: good. Incomplete: missing the last ~13min (under revision). |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | MESS224 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- Fare you well, people of Orphalese.
- This day has ended.
- It is closing upon us even as the water-lily upon its own to-morrow.
- What was given us here we shall keep, and if it suffices not, then again must we come together and together stretch our hands unto the giver.
- Forget not that I shall come back to you.
- A little while, and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body.
- A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
- Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you.
- It was but yesterday we met in a dream.
- You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.
- But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer dawn.
- The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day, and we must part.
- If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
- And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.
- So saying he made a signal to the seamen, and straightaway they weighed anchor and cast the ship loose from its moorings, and they moved eastward.
- And a cry came from the people as from a single heart, and it rose into the dusk and was carried out over the sea like a great trumpeting.
- Only Almitra was silent, gazing after the ship until it had vanished into the mist.
- And when all the people were dispersed she still stood alone upon the sea-wall, remembering in her heart his saying:
- "A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me."
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