The Messiah Vol 1 ~ 03

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event type discourse
date & time 9 Jan 1987 pm
location Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: good.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 58min. Quality: not good, a constant audio-noise.
online video
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle MESS103
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
The sutra
And as he walked he saw from afar men and women leaving their fields and their vineyards and hastening towards the city gates.
And he heard their voices calling his name, and shouting from field to field telling one another of the coming of his ship.
And he said to himself:
Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?
And what shall I give unto him who has left his plough in midfurrow, or to him who has stopped the wheel of his winepress?
Shall my heart become a tree heavy-laden with fruit that I may gather and give unto them?
And shall my desires flow like a fountain that I may fill their cups?
Am I a harp that the hand of the might may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me?
A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?
If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what un-remembered seasons?
If this indeed be the hour in which I lift up my lantern, it is not my flame that shall burn therein.
Empty and dark shall I raise my lantern,
And the guardian of the night shall fill it with oil and he shall light it also.
These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.


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