Unio Mystica Vol 1 ~ 07
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 7 Nov 1978 am |
| location | Buddha Hall, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 55min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | UNIO107 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- A ruby, there, is just a piece of stone:
- And spiritual excellence the height of folly.
- Silence is praise -- have done with speech;
- Your chatter will only bring you harm and sorrow --
- Have done!
- Belief and unbelief
- Both have their origin
- In your hypocrite's heart;
- The way is only long
- Because you delay to start on it:
- One single step
- Would bring you to him:
- Become a slave,
- And you will be a king.
- The dumb find tongues,
- When the scent of life reaches them
- From his soul.
- Listen truly -- and don't be fooled --
- This is not for fools:
- All these different shades
- Become one color
- In the jar of unity;
- The rope becomes slender
- When reduced to a single strand.
- Your intellect is just a hotch-potch
- Of guesswork and thought,
- Limping over the face of the earth;
- Wherever they are, he is not;
- They are contained within his creation.
- Man and his reason are just the latest
- Ripening plants in his garden.
- Whatever you assert about his nature
- You are bound to be out of your depth,
- Like a blind man trying to describe
- The appearance of his own mother.
- While reason is still tracking down the secret,
- You end your quest on the open field of love.
- The path consists in neither words nor deeds:
- Only desolation can come from these,
- And never any lasting edifice.
- Sweetness and life are the words
- Of the man who treads this road in silence;
- When he speaks it is not from ignorance,
- And when he is silent it is not from sloth.
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