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event type
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discourse
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date & time |
9 Jul 1979 am
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location |
Buddha Hall, Pune
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language |
English
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audio |
Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good.
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online audio |
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video |
Not available
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online video |
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see also |
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online text |
find the PDF of this discourse
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shorttitle |
DHAM0209
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- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- For a while the fool's mischief
- Tastes sweet, sweet as honey.
- But in the end it turns bitter.
- And how bitterly he suffers!
- For months the fool may fast,
- Eating from the tip of a grass blade.
- Still he is not worth a penny
- Beside the master whose food is the way.
- Fresh milk takes time to sour.
- So a fool's mischief
- Takes time to catch up with him.
- Like the embers of a fire
- It smoulders within him.
- Whatever a fool learns,
- It only makes him duller.
- Knowledge cleaves his head.
- For then he wants recognition.
- A place before other people.
- A place over other people.
- "Let them know my work,
- Let everyone look to me for direction."
- Such are his desires,
- Such is his swelling pride.
- One way leads to wealth and fame,
- The other to the end of the way.
- Look not for recognition
- But follow the awakened
- And set yourself free.
- (source:CD-ROM)