Until You Die ~ 06
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event type | discourse |
date & time | 16 Apr 1975 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 21min. Quality: good. |
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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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