The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 11

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event type discourse
date & time 3 Feb 1987 pm
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 2h 5min. Quality: good.
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video Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: good. Incomplete: missing the last ~17 min (after the words "The moment your being opens up, and you are full of")
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shorttitle MESS211
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synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
The sutra
Edited excerpt: 16min 36sec, a part of response to the sutra **
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech.
Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose.
And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.
You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
Even those who limp go not backward.
But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good,
You are only loitering and sluggard.
Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles.
In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and that longing is in all of you.
But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea, carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest.
And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore.
But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little, "Wherefore are you slow and halting?"
For the truly good ask not the naked, "where is your garment?" nor the houseless, "what has be-fallen your house?"


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