The Perfect Master Vol 1 ~ 09
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event type | discourse |
date & time | 29 Jun 1978 am |
location | Buddha Hall, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 38min. Quality: good. |
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video | Not available |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | PERF109 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Nawab Mohammed Khan, Jan-fishan, was out walking in Delhi one day when he came upon a number of people seemingly engaged in an altercation.
- He asked a bystander, "What is happening here?"
- The man said, "Sublime Highness, one of your disciples is objecting to the behavior of the people in this quarter."
- Jan-fishan went into the crowd and said to his follower, "Explain yourself."
- The man said, "These people have been hostile."
- The people exclaimed, "That is not true: we were, on the contrary, doing him honour for your sake."
- "What did they say?" asked the nawab.
- "They said, 'Hail, great scholar!' I was telling them that it is the ignorance of the scholars which is often responsible for the confusion and desperation of man."
- Jan-fishan Khan said, "It is the conceit of scholars which is responsible, quite often, for the misery of man. And it is your conceit in claiming to be other than a scholar which is the cause of this tumult. Not to be a scholar, which involves detachment from the petty, is an accomplishment. Scholars are seldom wise, being only unaltered people stuffed with thoughts and books.
- These people were trying to honour you. If some people think that mud is gold, if it is there mud, respect it. You are not their teacher.
- Do you not realize that, in behaving in such a sensitive and self-willed manner, you are acting just like a scholar, and therefore deserve the name, even if it is an epithet?
- Guard yourself, my child. Too many slips from the path of supreme attainment -- and you may become a scholar."
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