Unio Mystica Vol 2 ~ 09
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 19 Dec 1978 am |
| location | Buddha Hall, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 43min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | UNIO209 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Not one knows how far it is
- From nothingness to God.
- As long as you cling to your self
- You will wander right and left,
- Day and night, for thousands of years;
- And when, after all that effort,
- You finally open your eyes,
- You will see your self, through inherent defects,
- Wandering around itself like the ox in a mill;
- But, if, once freed from your self,
- You finally get down to work,
- This door will open to you within two minutes.
- God will not be yours,
- As long as you cling to soul and life:
- You cannot have both this and that.
- Bruise your self for months and years on end;
- Leave if for dead, and when you have done with it,
- You will have reached eternal life.
- Remain unmoved by hope and fear.
- To nonexistence mosque and church are one;
- To a shadow, heaven and hell likewise.
- For someone whose guide is love,
- Belief and disbelief are equally a veil,
- Concealing the doorway of the friend;
- His very being is a veil
- Which hides God's essence.
- Until you throw your sword away,
- You'll not become a shield
- Until you lay your crown aside,
- You'll not be fit to lead.
- The death of soul
- Is the destruction of life;
- But death of life
- Is the sou's salvation.
- Never stand still on the path:
- Become nonexistent; nonexistent
- Even to the notion of becoming nonexistent.
- And when you have abandoned both
- Individuality and understanding,
- This world will become that.
- When the eye is pure
- It sees purity.
- Unself yourself...
- Until you see your self as a speck of dust
- You cannot possibly reach that place;
- Self could never breathe that air,
- So wend your way there without self.
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