The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 02

event type	discourse
date & time	20 Jan 1987 pm
location	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 2h 47min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1987 first edition : The Messiah, Vol 2 (1987.09) other editions, translations and links
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shorttitle	MESS202

notes

synopsis: Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.

The sutra

And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?

If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.

You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.

And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?

And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.

And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.

And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.

And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

(source:CD-ROM)