presents
The Spoken Word Is Throbbing with Life
This is something to be understood:
the people who have known truth
have chosen to speak
rather than to write.
All over the world --
it cannot be just coincidence --
in all the centuries,
all over the world,
they have chosen to speak.
There is some fundamental
significance in it.
They all know the word
cannot convey the truth,
but the spoken word at least
can have
something alive in it.
The gesture of the Master,
the eyes of the Master --
something of the Master
is bound to be moving
with the word,
like an aroma,
a fragrance which you cannot
catch hold of,
you cannot pinpoint.
But the spoken word
has a totally different dimension
than the written word.
The same word written is just a
corpse of the same man
who was alive.
The written word is like a corpse,
and the spoken word
is throbbing with life --
at least for the moment
when somebody is there
to listen to it.
Between the listener
and the speaker,
for a moment,
there is an alive vibration.
The word is not alone:
the gesture, the eyes, the voice,
the depth from where it is coming....
On a flat piece of paper
where will you find the depth?
In ink where will you find the eyes,
the gestures, the sound?
It will be just dead.
It will be the same word
but the fire will not be in it.
It will be a candle without flame.
But the candle is not important;
what is important is the alive flame.