Anecdotes of Oyasama 148

Anecdotes of Oyasama
Author: Various authors Date Published: 1976 Pages: 159 (English ed.) Anecdotes Index

Anecdotes of Oyasama 148 presents the contents of "To the Clear Place," a selection from Anecdotes of Oyasama, published by Tenrikyo Church Headquarters in 1976. The content below appears between page 120 and 121 of the print edition.

Text: English translation and original Japanese

148. To the Clear Place As the Shido-kai Confraternity started functioning and the members of the Meisei-sha Confraternity withdrew one after another to join the newly established one, a senior of the Meisei-sha Confraternity directed someone to go to Genjiro Fukaya to persuade him to return, thinking that if Genjiro should return, all the others would follow him. When the messenger started to go down the stairs in order to leave, he suddenly fell to the floor and began to writhe in great pain. A doctor was called in at once and he diagnosed the man's illness as cholera. The patient was sent to a hospital immediately, but he died on the way. A man named Fujita returned to Jiba and asked Oyasama about this situation. Oyasama's words were these: "Because, without repenting his previous innen, he was going to try to pull that one back into the muddy water, that one who had been pulled out of the muddy water to the clear place, so I cut him down."

一四八　清らかな所へ 斯道会が発足して、明誠社へ入っていた人々も、次々と退社して、斯道会へ入る人が続出して来たので、明誠社では、深谷源次郎さえ引き戻せば、後の者はついて来ると考えて、人を派して説得しようとした。が、その者が、これから出掛けようとして、二階から下りようとしてぶっ倒れ、七転八倒の苦しみをはじめた。直ちに、医者を呼んで診断してもらうと、コレラという診立てであった。そこで、早速医院へ運んだが、行き着く前に出直してしもうた。それで、講中の藤田某 が、おぢばへ帰って、教祖に伺うと、 「前生のさんげもせず、泥水の中より清らかな所へ引き出した者を、又、泥水の中へ引き入れようとするから、神が切り払うた。」 と、お言葉があった。

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