The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 19
event type | discourse |
date & time | 7 Feb 1987 pm |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 42min. Quality: good. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: not good, the first 17min inferior sound. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | MESS219 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- And now it was evening.
- And Almitra the seeress said, Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that has spoken.
- And he answered, Was it I who spoke?
- Was I not also a listener?
- Then he descended the steps of the temple and all the people followed him. And he reached his ship and stood upon the deck.
- And facing the people again, he raised his voice and said:
- People of Orphalese, the wind bids me leave you.
- Less hasty am I than the wind, yet I must go.
- We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day;
- And no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
- Even while the earth sleeps we travel.
- We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.
- Brief were my days among you, and briefer still the words I have spoken.
- But should my voice fade in your ears, and my love vanish in your memory, then I will come again,
- And with a richer heart and lips more yielding to the spirit will I speak.
- Yea, I shall return with the tide,
- And though death may hide me, and the greater silence enfold me, yet again will I seek your understanding.
- And not in vain will I seek.
- If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
- I go with the wind, people of Orphalese, but not down into emptiness;
- And if this day is not a fulfillment of your needs and my love, then let it be a promise till another day.
- Man's needs change, but not his love, nor his desire that his love should satisfy his needs.
- Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return.
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