*** 金錢的價值 ***
對有些人而言，金錢是非常重要的， 現代這個社會毫無疑問是一個金錢導向的世界，但是我要說的是：去擁有那麼多的金錢，但變成一個傻瓜，這對你有什麼好處呢？看看那些有錢國家的老百姓，他們有很高的自殺率，顯然他們並不快樂，金錢是不能帶給人快樂。假如你成天想的都是錢錢錢，那麼你無法成為一個霎哈嘉瑜伽士。
金錢只是用來讓你表示你的愛而已！假如你有錢，最好是用來買東西送給其他人，買對他人有用的東西、買美麗的東西、買有藝術品味的東西來送人，如此可以來表示你的愛、你的感謝和你的堅信(Shraddha)。
但是有些人拼命累積錢，累積了無數的錢，但是却完全不了解錢的價值。對他而言，世界上除了錢之外，沒有任何值得一提的東西。這就像一個原本要去機場的旅客，途中看到的路邊有好玩的東西，下車去玩賞，但却忘記原本是要去機場搭飛機。這些累積了無數財富的人也是如此，他們浪費了精力在拼命賺錢上，將他們的注意力放錯了地方，最後他們也不快樂。因為我們都知道，人類的需求是無止境的，不可能從車子、房子，到更大、更更大的需求去獲得滿足感。而是純粹的愛(pure love)，你和他人之間感受的真愛，才可以帶給你滿足感，即是從你給予的愛及你從他人接受的愛，才可以獲得完全的滿足，因為這種愛是沒有參雜任何目的與任何想法的，而是單單去感受你和他人內在純粹的愛，這可以說是來自上天(Divine)最大、最美好的禮物。
註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri
Mataji 在生日普祭(Birthday Puja)的談話1996-03-21。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。
For some
people, money is very important. We must get money, somehow or other. If I
don’t get money, what’s the use of being in Sahaja Yoga? Money is very
important. We are living in a money-oriented world, no doubt. But I have told
you that what’s the use of having money that makes you a fool, which takes you
– now, see the countries which are very much money- oriented, who are supposed
to be very rich, all the Scandinavian countries and Switzerland, whatever may
they have, they might have done to get that money, doesn’t matter, but they are
people with money. People are committing suicide, young people are committing
suicide, there’s a competition going on, they’re very unhappy. Why? That means
money cannot bring happiness. Money, money, money, money – if that goes into
your head also, then you cannot be a Sahaja Yogi. But the money is there just
for you to use it to express your love. Now, you go to the shop. Then you see
something, “Aaaah! This is very nice to be given to such and such person.” You
think like that. It’s a very sweet feeling you get there. Ah – you can give
this to this one, eh? He needs it very much.
When your mind becomes the other way round, I mean, when it is thoughtlessly aware, then you will buy something that is joy giving, something artistic, something beautiful, something useful to that person. It will be a kind of a mind that will be extremely full of generosity, enjoying its generosity. And all the time it will guide you to the projection of your attention to things by which you can give happiness to others. Small, small things – not necessarily expensive things. If you have money better spend money in buying things that you can give to others, that you can – express your love, your gratitude, your Shraddha.
It is very remarkable how people give money to these sadhus and babas in thousands and thousands and crores of it. Because, I think in them it has come that to satisfy their Shraddha they must give it, and so they give. And they have amassed and amassed so much money, they have no sense of it. They don’t understand the value of that. To them it is nothing but money.
So, in the modern times I think the worst thing of ego is money. I have seen people who are very rich, supposed to be great business “wallahs” and something like that, they must meet Me separately, “We must come, Mother, and see You.” But they’re useless people, absolutely useless. So they’ll come and tell Me, “You know, I’m having a loss in this, I’m having a loss in that, can you help us in this way or that way?” I just don’t say anything to them, but they have said, “Mother we have recovered because of Your blessings.” Maybe. But it’s stupid. Like Lao-Tse described that you are going through the Yangtze river, it’s beautiful. On the sides you see beautiful scenes, but you better be on the boat and reach the ocean. In the same way, supposing we have to catch a plane, and we see something very nice on the road and get down there, how can we catch the plane?
So these side-effects of this mind are these, that we divert our attention to wrong things and waste our energy into it. Ultimately we are not happy, as you know that the – in general – wants are not satiable. It’s the love that you give and the love that you receive, which is not a love which is entangled into anything with any purpose, with any idea, but just to feel that love, pure love within yourself and within others. Is the greatest gift of the Divine.
All other things are useless, you’ll find it. You find it every day. Today you want to have a car, all right, have it. Then you want to have a house, have it, but you are not bothered about the car now you want to have a house. Now you get the house, then you are not satisfied. Then you want to have something else and something else. So then, which is that ‘want’ which is satisfying? It’s this pure love, genuine love that you feel for the others, and others feel for you.
When your mind becomes the other way round, I mean, when it is thoughtlessly aware, then you will buy something that is joy giving, something artistic, something beautiful, something useful to that person. It will be a kind of a mind that will be extremely full of generosity, enjoying its generosity. And all the time it will guide you to the projection of your attention to things by which you can give happiness to others. Small, small things – not necessarily expensive things. If you have money better spend money in buying things that you can give to others, that you can – express your love, your gratitude, your Shraddha.
It is very remarkable how people give money to these sadhus and babas in thousands and thousands and crores of it. Because, I think in them it has come that to satisfy their Shraddha they must give it, and so they give. And they have amassed and amassed so much money, they have no sense of it. They don’t understand the value of that. To them it is nothing but money.
So, in the modern times I think the worst thing of ego is money. I have seen people who are very rich, supposed to be great business “wallahs” and something like that, they must meet Me separately, “We must come, Mother, and see You.” But they’re useless people, absolutely useless. So they’ll come and tell Me, “You know, I’m having a loss in this, I’m having a loss in that, can you help us in this way or that way?” I just don’t say anything to them, but they have said, “Mother we have recovered because of Your blessings.” Maybe. But it’s stupid. Like Lao-Tse described that you are going through the Yangtze river, it’s beautiful. On the sides you see beautiful scenes, but you better be on the boat and reach the ocean. In the same way, supposing we have to catch a plane, and we see something very nice on the road and get down there, how can we catch the plane?
So these side-effects of this mind are these, that we divert our attention to wrong things and waste our energy into it. Ultimately we are not happy, as you know that the – in general – wants are not satiable. It’s the love that you give and the love that you receive, which is not a love which is entangled into anything with any purpose, with any idea, but just to feel that love, pure love within yourself and within others. Is the greatest gift of the Divine.
All other things are useless, you’ll find it. You find it every day. Today you want to have a car, all right, have it. Then you want to have a house, have it, but you are not bothered about the car now you want to have a house. Now you get the house, then you are not satisfied. Then you want to have something else and something else. So then, which is that ‘want’ which is satisfying? It’s this pure love, genuine love that you feel for the others, and others feel for you.
