The Messiah Vol 2 ~ 12
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event type | discourse |
date & time | 4 Feb 1987 am |
location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 2h 45min. Quality: good. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 50min. Quality: not so good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | MESS212 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Sw Anand Vimal.
- The sutra
- Then a priestess said, speak to us of prayer.
- And he answered, saying:
- You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
- For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?
- And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.
- And if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing.
- When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.
- Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion.
- For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:
- And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted:
- Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.
- It is enough that you enter the temple invisible.
- I cannot teach you how to pray in words.
- God listens not to your words save when he himself utters them through your lips.
- And I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the mountains.
- But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart,
- And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence:
- "Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.
- It is thy desire in us that desireth.
- It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
- We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
- Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all."
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