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Revision as of 12:25, 21 March 2022
event type | discourse |
date & time | 8 Feb 1987 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 57min. Quality: good. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 5min. Quality: not so good. |
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see also |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | MESS220 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- The mist that drifts away at dawn, leaving but dew in the fields, shall rise and gather into a cloud and then fall down in rain.
- And not unlike the mist have I been.
- In the stillness of the night I have walked in your streets, and my spirit has entered your houses,
- And your heart-beats were in my heart, and your breath was upon my face, and I knew you all.
- Ay, I knew your joy and your pain, and in your sleep your dreams were my dreams.
- And oftentimes I was among you a lake among the mountains.
- I mirrored the summits in you and the bending slopes, and even the passing flocks of your thoughts and your desires.
- And to my silence came the laughter of your children in streams, and the longing of your youths in rivers.
- And when they reached my depth the streams and the rivers ceased not yet to sing.
- But sweeter still than laughter and greater than longing came to me.
- It was the boundless in you;
- The vast man in whom you are all but cells and sinews;
- He in whose chant all your singing is but a soundless throbbing.
- It is in the vast man that you are vast,
- And in beholding him that I beheld you and loved you.
- For what distances can love reach that are not in that vast sphere?
- What visions, what expectations and what presumptions can outsoar that flight?
- Like a giant oak tree covered with apple blossoms is the vast man in you.
- His might binds you to the earth, his fragrance lifts you into space, and in his durability you are deathless.
- You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
- This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link.
- To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.
- To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
- Ay, you are like an ocean.
- And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides.
- And like the seasons you are also,
- And though in your winter you deny your spring,
- Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles in her drowsiness and is not offended.
- Think not I say these things in order that you may say the one to the other, "He praised us well. He saw but the good in us."
- I only speak to you in words of that which you yourselves know in thought.
- And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
- Your thoughts and my words are waves from a sealed memory that keeps records of our yesterdays,
- And of the ancient days when the earth knew not us nor herself,
- And of nights when earth was upwrought with confusion.
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