The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 10
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 3 Feb 1987 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 40min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 44min. Quality: not so good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | MESS210 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- And one of the elders of the city said,
- Speak to us of good and evil.
- And he answered:
- Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
- For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
- Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
- You are good when you are one with yourself.
- Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
- For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.
- And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
- You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
- Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself.
- For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast.
- Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, "Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance."
- For to the fruit giving is a need, as receiving is a need to the root.
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