-----你必須當你自己的導師-----
在過去古老的印度，這導師原理是非常嚴格的，嚴格到使很多人並不敢去當一個門徒。那時候的導師有完全的權威，是導師來決定誰可以當他的門徒。這些候選人往往必須經歷嚴厲的苦行，才能成為一個被導師揀選的門徒。能否度過這些苦行的折磨，往往是導師判定某人能否成為門徒的唯一標準。
但是今天的霎哈嘉瑜伽是完全不同，甚至是相反的。因為你們的導師是一位母親，縱使是最小的事(苦難)發生在你(即門徒)身上，我的眼睛都會充滿淚水，因為我為我的慈悲所折磨。所以以母親的身份來當一個導師是非常困難的。同時對門徒的你而言，你要達到相當的修行成就亦是有些困難，因為你很容易迷失在我的愛裏，尤其是當我給你太多的愛時，你常會忘記你的升進十分緩慢的這個事實。所以在霎哈嘉瑜伽裏，你要對自己嚴格一些，這是非常重要的。這也為什麼我常說：你必須要當你自己的導師 (You have to be your own guru.)。即你要引導你自己，你要把自己當成自己的門徒，而且你要時常修整你自己。假如你不了解在霎哈嘉瑜伽裏你要負責自己的升進，那麼你的進展將會十分緩慢，因為霎哈嘉瑜伽是不同於以往，是另一種型態的導師門徒關係。
所以這就爲什麼我常說：你要成為你自己的導師。你必須做許多自我反省(introspection) 及糾正自己的許多想法。我現在坐在你面前，你們都知道我如何，我可以吃任何(你們給我的)食物，我也可以幾天不吃。我可以睡在任何地方，我也可以完全不睡覺。我到處旅行(演講)而毫不疲倦，我有充足的精力。為什麼呢？因為我是我自己的導師 (我嚴格訓練、要求我自己)。
所以首先你應該對自己有許多内省，如 "我有什麼過錯呢？"，而不是 "別人有什麼過錯？"；"我是否在追求我身體(感官)的舒適？"；"我的注意力是在我的身體或是靈(Spirit)上？"；"假如是在我身體，那我正在做什麼呢？"；"我可以睡在地上嗎？"；"我可以坐在石頭上(而非椅子)嗎？"；"我隨時都可以睡，或隨時都保持清醒嗎？"等等。你必須訓練你的身體，使它爲你所用。
除了身體及習慣外，你也必須做一些更深層(心理方面)的内省，反省你的周遭(即成長背景)、你的風格(style)、你的方法(methods，註一)及在外在制約下而你是如何對待你自己(註二)等等。
註一：譯者：指人習慣處理事物的做法。
註二：指人的一些心理上的制約。
註三：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji
導師崇拜
(Shri Guru Puja)的談話1991-07-28. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.
Guru principle
is extremely strict and the strictness made many people could not confirm to
the ideas of a disciple. In those days, the guru had to be absolutely the
authority and it was the guru who would decide which disciples he’ll have and
one had to go into great tapasya, to great penances to even become a disciple.
And this hardship was the only way the guru used to judge.
Gurus would always live in jungles and they would select their disciples, very few, very, very few, and they had to go and beg food from the neighbouring villages and cook food for their guru with their own hands and feed the guru. That sort of guru business is not in Sahaja Yoga – that basically we must understand that the difference between those styles of guruship and that we have now is this, that, very few individuals were given the chance to become the guru – very few. And these few also were selected out of quite a lot of people and they felt that they were something really special that they are being selected, chosen and that whatever they will have to go through is all welcome. With this idea, they became the disciple.
Gurus would always live in jungles and they would select their disciples, very few, very, very few, and they had to go and beg food from the neighbouring villages and cook food for their guru with their own hands and feed the guru. That sort of guru business is not in Sahaja Yoga – that basically we must understand that the difference between those styles of guruship and that we have now is this, that, very few individuals were given the chance to become the guru – very few. And these few also were selected out of quite a lot of people and they felt that they were something really special that they are being selected, chosen and that whatever they will have to go through is all welcome. With this idea, they became the disciple.
But Sahaja Yoga
is a very different thing. I would say, just the opposite. First of all, your
guru is a mother and who suffers from Sandra Karuna. At the slightest things
that happen to you, My eyes get filled with tears.
So, as a
mother, to be a guru is a very difficult thing. But, at the same time, for you
to achieve heights is also difficult because you get lost when I love you so
much and, in that love, you forget sometimes that the progress in your being is
very slow. It is important that in Sahaja Yoga you have to be strict with
yourself. That’s why I said that you have to be your own guru, which people do
not understand what it means. “You have to be your own guru” means you have to
guide yourself. You have to treat yourself as your disciple. And you have to
trim yourself. If you do not understand the responsibility as a Sahaja Yogi of
working it out yourself everything, you cannot move very fast because it is a
different type of relationship between the guru and the disciples.
So, first I
have always said you become your own guru. So you have to make a lot of
introspection and fix your ideals. Before you, I am sitting, you have seen Me,
how I am. I can eat anything. I need not eat at all for days together. I can
sleep anywhere. I may not sleep at all. I travel for miles together,
untiringly. I have this energy because I am a guru of myself, also.
So the first
thing is that there should be lot of introspection. “What’s wrong with me?” not
wrong with others. What’s wrong with me? Am I seeking the comfort of my body?
The attention, is it on my body or on my spirit? If so, what am I doing? I
think best thing is to write it down. Can I sleep on the grass? Can I sit on
the stone. You have to make this body work. Can I sleep any time I like and can
I keep awake any time I like?
I’ve seen people doze off. The reason is this, not that they’re bad or in any way indisciplined people, but because inside the are tired. If you’re tired inside, then you feel tired all the time. You’ll see on the television, if you see people in the West, they are always, “Haaa,” sitting like this because they’re so very tired. Why are they so tired? They don’t work so hard.
I’ve seen people doze off. The reason is this, not that they’re bad or in any way indisciplined people, but because inside the are tired. If you’re tired inside, then you feel tired all the time. You’ll see on the television, if you see people in the West, they are always, “Haaa,” sitting like this because they’re so very tired. Why are they so tired? They don’t work so hard.
So introspect –
how you behave. Now when you start introspecting yourself, you’ll also start
introspecting your surroundings and your styles and your methods and what you
are doing to yourself because of the conditionings of the outside.(
1991-07-28)
