Until You Die ~ 06

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event type discourse
date & time 16 Apr 1975 am
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona
language English
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shorttitle UNTIL06
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synopsis
Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
The sutra
El Mahdi Abbassi announced that it was verifiable that, whether people tried to help a man or not, something in the man could frustrate this aim.
Certain people having objected to this theory, El Mahdi promised a demonstration.
When everyone had forgotten the incident, El Mahdi ordered one man to lay a sack of gold in the middle of a bridge. Another man was asked to bring some unfortunate debtor to one end of the bridge and tell him to cross it.
Abbassi and his witnesses stood at the other side of the bridge.
When the man got to the other side, Abbassi asked him: 'What did you see in the middle of the bridge?'
'Nothing,' said the man.
'How was that?' asked Abbassi.
The man replied: 'As soon as I started to cross the bridge, the thought occurred to me that it might be amusing to cross with my eyes shut. And I did so....'


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