The Messiah Vol 1 ~ 03
event type | discourse |
date & time | 9 Jan 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: good. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 58min. Quality: not good, a constant audio-noise. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | MESS103 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- And as he walked he saw from afar men and women leaving their fields and their vineyards and hastening towards the city gates.
- And he heard their voices calling his name, and shouting from field to field telling one another of the coming of his ship.
- And he said to himself:
- Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
- And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?
- And what shall I give unto him who has left his plough in midfurrow, or to him who has stopped the wheel of his winepress?
- Shall my heart become a tree heavy-laden with fruit that I may gather and give unto them?
- And shall my desires flow like a fountain that I may fill their cups?
- Am I a harp that the hand of the might may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me?
- A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?
- If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what un-remembered seasons?
- If this indeed be the hour in which I lift up my lantern, it is not my flame that shall burn therein.
- Empty and dark shall I raise my lantern,
- And the guardian of the night shall fill it with oil and he shall light it also.
- These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.
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