*** 霎哈嘉狀態-----自然而然的境界 ***
前言：這是一個很長的談話，主要是談到什麼是''自然而然的境界''(或直譯為"霎哈嘉狀態"，the state of Sahaja)，但也談及許多其他課題，譯者嘗試彙整此主題，翻譯其大要，做為大家看全文的幫助。
譯文：
這是霎哈嘉練習者必須要達到的境界，這種狀態在薄伽梵歌( Gita )中，錫呂克里希那( Shri Krishna )叫它是Sitha
Pragya。格尼殊哇( Ganeshwara )則稱之為Sahaja Stithi，即是"霎哈嘉狀態"的意思。一個達到此境界的人，就如同一面鏡子一般，眾多臉孔在鏡中走過、許多人往鏡內注目、多少裝扮在鏡前進行，但是鏡子仍然是鏡子，完全沒有改變。所以達到自然而然的境界的人，他並不在乎是誰看著他、也不管是誰在看誰、不管他是在那裡，他只是安然自處，他就獨立在他自己(的真我)之內。雖然人有種種的感官與感覺，但他不在乎這些感覺，對他而言，這些感覺沒有太大的差異 ，他不會陷入這些感覺，他只是讓這些感覺漂流而過。你們都必須達到此境界，如此你才是一個真正的霎哈嘉瑜伽士。
(雖然許多人已得到自覺)，但是我仍然發現許多練習者迷失了，迷失在想從霎哈嘉撈一點錢、迷失在領導人之爭、迷失在忌妒及羨慕之中等等，這表示這些練習者仍有許多内裡的功課要做。但是你們也不須要走入放棄所有(外在)東西的苦修，這就是為什麼我總是說 ：你們要靜坐！因為當你靜坐時，那些將你往下拉的力量會褪去，慢慢地它們會消失，因為你變成真正的你自己，你為你的真我所包圍，此時你超越在這些之上，即在貪婪、慾望之上 ，你是一個靜觀者，你只是靜靜地看觀看，你不會迷失在這些將你往下拉的事物之中。在這靜觀狀態下，你會變得精微，變成(真我的)你自己，此時外物無法干擾你、影響你。
在你得到自覺之後，你開始可以將真正的你自己和其他東西分離開來，如有些人可能看到自己的自我及其造成的種種問題，有人看到自己臍輪不好和汲汲謀利的行為，即你開始會有關於自己的真正知識。在自覺之前，人是活在無明及黑暗之中，而沒有(關於自己的)真正知識。當你內在有光，便可以看見自己的問題時，你就可以將自己和這些問題分開來，來去除它們，來使自己更清潔、更完美。一旦你更往上到達自然而然的境界時，你也不需要這些知識了，即你不需要知道你的輪穴的種種狀況，這些都不再重要了。你就像一個石頭，這個石頭内裡有完整的大腦、心、肝，你不在乎任何事，任何外物也不會令你煩憂，你只是享受著愛與慈悲的流動，及享受從別人身上再折返的愛的迴響，甚至再一段時間後，連這些都不再為你所感知，你就自然而然消融在其中。
過去的聖人是可以達到此境界，但是他們並無法將此境界告訴或教導大眾，最後他們也消失了。在過去他們並未有今日霎哈嘉瑜珈的集體意識(collective consciousness)，在現代的霎哈嘉瑜伽之下，你們發展出來一個新的象度(dimension)，在此集體意識之下，你會想到他人，你會對他人有慈悲心，你也會想給他人自覺。
達到自然而然的境界的人就猶如太陽、猶如燈，太陽和燈給外界光明，但他們對此並不自知，我們也不能說它們在享受這個給予光明的過程，他們對此事毫無所知。同樣的，到達此境界的人，他並沒有任何願望(去成就什麼)，他也認為他沒有做什麼事，但是事情就這樣自然地成就。好像他們站在那邊，就自然散發出寧靜與祥和，就自然發出光，散發出一切好的東西。因為他們本身就是光源，他們不用刻意去照亮他人，他們就會自然地去照亮周遭的一切。
或許有人會說："(既然到達那境界後，並沒有做什麼事)，那麼我們也不做任何事，為什麼我們應該去傳播霎哈嘉呢？這應該不是我們的工作" ，你會如此問，表示你仍未到達那境界！你是要經由努力、去做，來昇進到那個境界。即你必須先去知道，先去擁有所有的相關知識，然後去給他人自覺，給他人光，去成就這些事，最後你才會變成燭火或是燈本身，此時你就只是散發出光，而並不知道自己本身就是燭火或是燈。那些並不去給他人自覺，只是來參加普祭，做這個、做那個的練習者，可說是平庸的人而已，他們無法昇進到很高的境界。或許去參加普祭他們可以往上升一些，但是之後他們又會掉下來。
至於那些努力為霎哈嘉工作、努力在傳播霎哈嘉、一步一步往上成長的練習者，我有信心在我的有生之年，就可以看到他們成為光，他們不必刻意去照亮他人，因為他們本身就是光。 在你達到自然而然的境界之前，你都可以更進一步往上昇進，到達此境界之後 你就達到完美的狀態了！或許很難向你們解釋什麼是這境界，一旦你到達這自然而然的境界，你就處在一個非常精微的狀態，這狀態就是無上的福份，你就是在那裏，甚至你也不曉得你有無上的福份。
註一：大家可能會有一個疑問：自然而然的境界又是相當於以前提到的靜坐的那個層次？
（Shri Mataji說過靜坐有三個階段，一. 無思慮的靜觀 (thoughtless awareness，即Nirvichara)，二. 無疑惑的靜觀 (doubtless awareness，即Nirvikalpa)，三. 完全的自覺。在這之上才是神的自覺(God's Realization)，亦有三階段(1977-02-15)。但也另有其他談話說三個目標是：一. 無思慮的靜觀，二. 無疑惑的靜觀，三. 神的自覺(1996-03-03)。）
譯者以為Shri
Mataji在談話中從靜觀的狀態一路講到完美的階段，所以自然而然的境界應該是指''無疑惑的靜觀'' 或 ''完全的自覺''。請參見譯文 ''神的自覺'' ( http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.com/2017/10/gods-realization-self-realization-god.html ) 。
註二：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri
Mataji 在光明節普祭(Diwali Puja) 的談話1996-11-10 。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。
But today I’m going to tell you about what is the state one has
to achieve. As Shri Krishna has said it in the “Gita,” describes Sitha Pragya,
the second chapter, but it’s very difficult to understand Him, He is not so
clear cut as your Mother is.
So people don’t understand what He is saying. And they ask the
question, “How, how do you reach that state of Sitha Pragya? How do you get to
that stage?” But Ganeshwara, when he wrote his “Ganeshwari,” he called it as
the Sahaja Stithi, means the state of Sahaj. He didn’t call Sitha Pragya. He
called it as Sahaja Stithi, meaning the state of Sahaj. So he describes the
Sahaj in a very beautiful manner and very subtle. Of course, Ganeshwara also,
very few people understand, I think.
A person who reaches that state is like a mirror and so many
faces pass over that mirror, so many look into that mirror, so many decorate in
front of the mirror, but mirror is the same as it is. So the person who is a
Sitha Pragya or the person who is Sahaja is not bothered about what is facing
him, who is facing whom, where he is. He stays within himself. He contains
within himself. Like the sun. If the sun plays with his different rays, he is
not lost. All the rays again return to him. In the same way, all the senses
that we have, all the senses that are there do play around, but for a person
who is in a Sahaja state it doesn’t matter, it makes no difference. He’s not
involved. He just plays around. Again, all of them come back to him. This is a
state you all have to achieve. Then you are really Sahaja Yogis. But I still
find people lost, getting money out of Sahaja Yoga, some people lost getting
out of leaderships, some are lost in getting jealousies and envies and all
that.
So that means a lot of work has to be done, still, within. There
is no need to work as such if you leave everything. That’s why I always say
meditate, because when you meditate, what happens, that all these things that
are pulling you down are finished.
Gradually they disappear because you become yourself. You get
contained by yourself and you are never bored. .............
Another thing is you rise above all these things, like greed.
Now people who are greedy are still involved making money here, making money
there, all that thing. Those people who are still full of lust are still
making, organizing, some things like that. But in a Sahaj Stithi you just
watch. You are just a witness. You are not lost into anything that is pulling
you down. ............
Just watch and this watching state, this witness state is the Sahaja
Stithi. In that you become so subtle, you become yourself, meaning so subtle
that nothing can disturb you, nothing can change you. ........
Now you start seeing yourself separating from all these things.
Some people come and tell Me, “Mother, see, my ego is very bad, you just take
it out.” He sees his ego, he sees what is the problem is. Somebody says,
“Mother, my nabhi is very bad, I’m still busy with the money.” He sees it.
First starts the knowledge about yourself, we call as self-knowledge. But one
has to even go beyond self-knowledge. By that knowledge, what do you do, we
have to see?
When you have the knowledge, first we say there’s no knowledge,
people have no knowledge, they are ignorant, there’s darkness, all that. Now
the light has come, you can see. You can know what’s wrong within you. Now you
start separating yourself from all those things that you see as wrong with you.
You see them getting out.
So many nonsensical things there are. Like, we have jealousies,
envy, greed and lust. I mean, it’s horrible things to say on a Diwali function,
see. So the Diwali is that one by one so many lights are enlightened and you
start seeing it first. First you start seeing what is wrong with you and then,
as you see it, you don’t want it. Then you work out to get rid of it, to become
clean.
Now this also knowledge disappears. You don’t have to have any
knowledge. You are there. You are there. There is no need to know about your
chakras, you are just there. At that stage nothing matters. You become just like
a stone, I can say. Stone with a brain intact and a heart intact and a liver
intact.
You just don’t mind anything, don’t get upset with anything. You
just enjoy the love and compassion that’s flowing. And the ripples that come
back to you, even that is lost after some time and you are just nothing but
Sahaj. That is the state people achieved. In those days they achieved this
state.
But with that, what lacking happened, that they’d get lost. They
all got lost. They couldn’t do anything to others. One person getting it,
becoming great, finished. Or two persons at the most. ...........
So now Sahaja Yoga stands first of all at the knowledge state,
where you have the knowledge. First, you should first of all have full
knowledge about yourself. The self-knowledge should be complete. Then in the
third stage we should say that when the knowledge is full you should get rid of
all those things that you know about yourself, which are useless, which are
hampering your progress, which you know is wrong.
Like, I see some dirt falling on my sari, I’ll just clean it out
like that. Then you start separating yourself into that Sahaja state. But still
in Sahaja Yoga you develop another dimension which is collective consciousness.
That is the modern Sahaja Yoga. In the olden days they didn’t have this, so
they just all got lost. Now you have collective consciousness and in that
collective consciousness you start feeling others, feeling for others,
compassion for others and you start working out for others. ........
And in that state only we can say you are in a Sahaja state,
where you don’t desire anything, you don’t want anything. ........
This is the state in which, once we rise, we call it as Sahaja
Stithi. In the Sahaja Stithi you think you are doing nothing. Everything is
working out.
But at this stage if I tell you, you say, “Oh, we are not doing
anything. Why should we spread Sahaja Yoga, it’s not our job?” Just now, that’s
not your stithi, that’s why.
..............
it’s difficult to explain to you what is this stithi is because
you have to achieve it. Once you achieve it then you are in a very subtle state
and that subtle state is nothing but bliss. ........
See it is such a simple thing one has to understand that the
state in which one has to rise is a state where without doing anything,
everything works out. If that is your state, all right. But it’s not so. So you
have to rise up to that state by doing. First you have to do it. First you have
to know and then knowledge has no need, you don’t have to know, but first that
has to be worked out and brought to that level.
Now Diwali has the significance that on Diwali day, what we do,
we put lights all over. So that we put Sahaja Yoga everywhere. But does the
light know about itself? Does the candle knows about itself? She enlightens
everything but she doesn’t know. Like the moon, which is giving moonlight, does
it know itself? Does he enjoy? Nothing. In the same way it happens that on a
Diwali day you are, what you are doing is enlightening people, you are enlightening
them, you are doing all this for them, it’s a good idea. You must do it. But
also know that you have to become the lamp yourself which doesn’t know
yourself.
So there are two messages. The first one is that we have to
enlighten the world, we have to enlighten others. This is the first one. Then
we have to become that which is the light itself and light itself doesn’t
know. .........
But to get to that state you have to work. And work is to spread
Sahaja Yoga. You have to enlighten many lights. That means you will realize
that you are the light which is enlightening all that, and then in a subtle way
you will realize that, “I am the light.”
.........
Those who do not give self-realization to others, who just come
for the pujas, this thing, are mediocres. They cannot rise very high. This
coming to puja is what, like, you just rise higher with the puja then again you
go down.
But those who steadily grow will grow into this state, I am
sure, in My lifetime I should be able to see such people who are such that if
they stand here they emit peace, they emit light, they emit everything. Because
they are the light. They don’t have to enlighten, but they are the light. ........
Now you are gradually growing one by one, step by step, so now
you understand this. You understand Christ, you understand all these people and
at this stage you have still to work. Those who do not work for Sahaja Yoga
cannot rise higher. You have to work for Sahaja Yoga, you have to spread it
more, you have to work it out, enjoy each other, this brotherhood, everything.
All the qualities of a beautiful personality should be there.
Unless and until you achieve that state, then you can only rise
higher to that stage which I am describing is a Sahaja Stithi. In that state
you will be perfect. ..........
In the same way these people start allowing people to pass
through but we have to understand, still we have to grow. We have to still grow
by working it out. Those people who are working it out and spreading it all
over are the ones which are really very much there and to them, I must say, the
Paramchaitanya is just their servant.
.......
Then this bliss, knowledge, everything becomes one, nothing but
bliss and you are in that state of bliss which you don’t even know, you are
just there. The greatest bliss is that you don’t know even anything, you’re
just there.
