The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 14
event type | discourse |
date & time | 5 Feb 1987 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 2h 41min. Quality: good. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 45min. Quality: not so good. |
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shorttitle | MESS214 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness.
- But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement.
- They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
- Yet if it comforts them to regret, let them be comforted.
- And there are among you those who are neither young to seek nor old to remember;
- And in their fear of seeking and remembering
- They shun all pleasures, lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it.
- But even in their foregoing is their pleasure.
- And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quivering hands.
- But tell me, who is he that can offend the spirit?
- Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night, or the firefly the stars?
- And shall your flame or your smoke burden the wind?
- Think you the spirit is a still pool which you can trouble with a staff?
- Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.
- Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for to-morrow?
- Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.
- And your body is the harp of your soul,
- And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
- And now you ask in your heart, "how shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?"
- Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
- But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
- For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
- And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
- And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
- People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.
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