體悟你自己的靈性(Realize
Your Own Divinity)----- 真正從内心認出母親的途徑(註一)
要保持頂輪打開可以說是非常簡單，但也是非常困難。因為頂輪是由Mahamaya(以"大幻相"降世的女神)所掌管，不容易認出(recognize)她、了解她，因為她就生活、行動如你一般，而且你無法分辨出她的真正本質。..........（註二）
在霎哈嘉瑜伽裹有兩個途徑來幫你認出Mahamaya。其一，你看過許多拍攝到特殊影像的相片，這會說服你的頭腦知悉這裏確實有一些特別(譯者：指神奇).......。其二，當你開始發現一些降臨你身上的祝福，當你發現你在物質上、身體上、情緒上及靈性上皆有更好的進展時，(你知道這裏確實不一樣)，但對大多數的霎哈嘉練習者，這仍是頭腦認知(mental)的層面。
除非這種認出是來自内心(heart)，否則仍不是真正的認出。當昆達里尼(Kundalini)接觸到頂輪，喚醒了你的靈(Spirit)........，你開始可以感覺到涼風，你可以提升別人的昆達里尼，你可以治療他人，你可以做很多事情。此時你的認出仍然不是大部份來自内心，這就是為什麼霎哈嘉有音樂、藝術等來幫助你打開你的心。
什麼是來自内心的認出呢？打個比喻，如果你是一個出生在基督教家庭的基督徒，當你看到基督的相片，你(内心)立即感受到：這是基督。我指的認出是類似於此，一種來自内心的感覺。當小孩子把手伸向燭火，他們不會感到害怕，因為他們還沒有被燒傷的經驗。但是大人把手伸向燭火則會感到害怕，因為過去有關火的經驗已逐步累積在記憶内，使他們對火有一種反射動作的反應。
同樣地，人們需要累積怎樣的經驗，才可以使他們的内心達到可以有自然認出的反應呢？答案是：有關你自己的靈性(divinity
and spirituality)的經驗。一旦你開始發展有關靈性的經驗，你才會知道你是一個屬靈的人(divine
person, 註三)。除非你完全體悟到你是一個屬靈的人(譯者：即你是一個靈)，你對我的認出才會達到完滿，在這之前皆非完全。假如你能入靜、能反省，那麼你就會觸摸到你内在的靈性，當你能碰觸到内裏的靈性，你就會知道自己是一個屬靈的人(譯者：即"我是一個靈")。(所以入靜及反省皆是增進你體悟自己是一個屬靈的人的途徑。)
(除此之外)，還有什麼途徑可以讓你經驗到自己的靈性呢？那就是給別人自覺！你可以給人自覺，你可以感知他們輪穴的狀況，你知道他們有什麼問題，你可以很有信心做這些。在頭腦的層面上你知道："
是的，是的，母親，我做得到。他的昆達里尼可以升起來........."，但是你没有自問："爲什麼我可以做得到？"、"爲什麼我可以感知他人的輪穴？"、"是什麼事情發生在我的身上？"、"我的内在有什麼轉換？"。一旦你開始反問這些問題了，你對Mahamaya的感覺，我再強調一次是"感覺"，是如同感到害怕或高興的"感覺"(譯者：Shri
Mataji 指非頭腦的理解)，你對Mahamaya的感覺就開始展開------一種感恩的感覺、愛的感覺、與大我合而為一的感覺、一種喜樂的感覺。
你内心的這些感覺是由對靈性的體驗(experience
of spirituality)及對你自己的存有的體驗(experience of your own
being)所產生出來的。一旦你内心有這些感覺，一個自然的理法儀軌(protocol)會在你内在產生，你不會再去做壞事，因為在你心中知道什麼是對的。我們可以說原本在你靈性所内建(built-in)的機制，現在正式(向外)顯現出來(manifesting)。此時你不再煩惱外在的事物，你也不再從外界的規範或表面來決定如何行事，你會從你的内心來決定如何行事，因為根基於靈性而内建的機制已完全透過你的内心，來表現它自己。可以達到如此的人是自動變成一個非常高等級的瑜伽士！
註一：realize有真正了解及實現的雙重意思，所以此處翻為"體現"(體悟實現)可能較恰當，但是"體現"有些文謅謅，所以用"體悟"。看完全篇即可以知道涵義，歡迎大家建議更合適的翻譯。divinity在此指的是人內在的神性或神聖的特質，中文(中華文化)並無相應的詞，就霎哈嘉而言這部分正是指靈(Spirit)，所以翻譯成靈性正好很合適。
註三：譯者認為可以用Shri Mataji演講常用的開場白來解釋何謂divine
person："你不是這個身體、這個情感、這個意識，你是一個靈。"
註四：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji
頂輪崇拜
(Sahastrara Puja)的談話1991-05-05. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.
To keep the
Sahastrara open is, in a way, very easy, as well as difficult. As you have
known in Devi Mahatmya that, “at Sahastrare Mahamaya comes.” She is a Mahamaya:
not easy to recognise Her, not easy to know Her. She lives just like you. She
moves just like you. And you can never make out Her real nature. She is in the
form of Mahamaya.
So, at the
Sahastrara, to recognise the Mahamaya is another vicious circle. You may say
that, “Why should it be Mahamaya. Should have been better as, starkingly (sic),
some other form.” But any other form could not have worked out Sahaja Yoga in
modern times because people would have been frightened and upset and they would
never have taken to Sahaj Yog because they had no discretion already within
them already to know what is right and what is wrong. That is why it had to be
in the Mahamaya form.
In the Mahamaya
form you have to recognise. This is another test because Mahamaya you
cannot recognise, while you have to recognise. But in Sahaja Yoga you
have seen so many photographs which should convince you people mentally about
this Mahamaya Swaroopa. You can see, mentally you can understand there’s
something very different. Even when I came to Napoli the policeman and
everybody was given a photograph and they all recognised that there’s something
very different. They all wanted to shake hands with Me. (note: all the
police asked for Mother’s photos and badges when She arrived at the Napoli
airport) This is one way.
Another way is
that you start seeing the blessings and you start seeing how you become so
progressively better materially, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Still
on a mental level most of the people recognise.
But, unless and
until, it is recognised in the heart it’s no recognition. Already the heart is
surrounded by seven auras of the seven chakras and the Spirit, the Atma,
resides in the heart. As it is, on top of your head here, resides the God
Almighty, Sadashiva.
So, when
Kundalini touches that point your Spirit gets awakened and the light of the
Spirit starts spreading and it starts acting on your central nervous
system because automatically the vibrations, the chaitanya flow into
your brain, who enlightens your nerves.
But still the
recognition in the heart is not there. Even without that you
start feeling the cool breeze, you can raise the Kundalini of others, you can
cure people, you can do many things. But still it is not yet felt in the heart
so much. That’s why we have music, art. All these things start opening
your heart. But still it is not recognition because recognition is a
mental activity of the heart. How can heart have a mental activity? This is
another problem you all can face – and I know that – that, recognition, if it
is a mental activity of the heart, how do we do it?
Say, if you are
a Christian, born in a Christian family, as soon as you see the photograph of
Christ, immediately you feel “It’s Christ,” you see, something here. Or if you
are a Hindu, if you see the photograph of Shri Rama, immediately you know,
“It’s Shri Ram,” you see. There’s a kind of a thing, a recognition, in the
heart.
But the
recognition of somebody living with you is very, very difficult and you live on
the cusp of your mental activities only. But to go deep down into your
heart, “What should we do?” People tell Me, “Mother, how should we get into our
heart?” How this mental activity can be performed through the heart? Now, you
must remember that heart is absolutely connected with brain –
absolutely connected. It’s not a disconnected thing. If it was it would
have not have worked out. When heart fails, after some time, brain also fails.
The whole body goes out of order.
(If the child
is crying please take out the child. You better take out the child. Something
wrong with the child if the child is crying.)
So, this mental
activity of the heart is to be understood this way: that as soon as you
see the danger, without even thinking, in a reflex way, your heart
starts pumping more blood and you get palpitation. You don’t have to think. There’s
no mental activity. Just you see, supposing, a tiger standing before you,
immediately the heart will start pumping. It’s a reflex action.
Now, how this
activity takes place, one may say, is that, because it is built-in within you
that as soon as you see some emergency your sympathetic nervous system goes
into activity and you start feeling the fear, you start feeling that there
should be some protection, that you should do something about it. But you do
not think, you just run, you run as fast as possible. You don’t think about it,
“What I should do, where I should run.” Just you go on running away from
the danger. And how do you do that? Because it is built-in within you,
all this in your brain, that as so as the heart starts pumping too much blood
it should just make the legs work and the hands work and you should run. Or we
can say, it is in the central nervous system built in – the fear. Any reaction,
any response like that is built-in within you.
But the
response to spirituality is not yet manifested. It is manifested, it is all built,
no doubt but it is not yet manifested. And how will it manifest? That’s what
people ask Me, “Mother, how will it manifest?” Through your past you have
learned that you have to be afraid of this, you have to be afraid of that. Also
in this lifetime, you have learnt many things. For a child may put his hand to
the candle, won’t feel be frightened but a grown-up would because an
experience. With the experience gradually you build in that reaction of
reflex within you so that you try to save yourself.
Now, what
experience you should have to build that in your heart is the point. And the
experience is of your own divinity, of your own spirituality.
Once you start developing that experience then you know that you are a
divine person. Unless and until you are aware fully that you are a
divine person howsoever faith you may have in Me the recognition is not
complete. Because who is recognising Me? Is a blind person. If a blind person
is recognising Me it won’t have that response of the heart.
So, first you
have to recognise yourself to be a divine person, to have faith in yourself. We
do not have faith in ourselves, though we are Sahaja Yogis. If there’s any
problem, they will write a letter to Me. If they are sick they’ll write a
letter to Me. If there’s any family questioning they’ll write to Me. If there’s
somebody bothering them with some questions they’ll ask Me. But if you become
introspective and meditative then you touch that divinity within you.
When you touch that divinity you know you are a divine person.
So, in
Sahastrara Puja, actually, you have to recognise your own divinity, that you
are divine, by experiencing your divinity. How do you experience your
divinity? That you give realisation to others. It’s a great experience
to give realisation to others. Not only that, you give realisation but you can
tell about their chakras, you know what’s wrong with them – you are quite
confident. And mentally you know that, “Yes, yes, it’s working” you’ll say,
without getting involved into it as “I do it!” You’ll say, “Mother, it’s
working. It’s happening. It’s this thing, that thing.”
But you never
introspect, “How is it I am working? How I’m working it out? How
I can feel it? What has happened to me? What has improved in me? What
has sharpened in me? What is the development in me? What is the
transformation?”
Once you start
thinking about it, the experience of your own being, then a kind of a feeling –
feeling – toward the Mahamaya, develops. Feeling. Again, I say ‘feeling’.
Like feeling of fear, feeling of happiness, feeling of depression. Any feeling
you develop. And this feeling, you could call a feeling of gratitude, feeling
of love, feeling of oneness, feeling of joy. All this starts working in
your heart and then you feel the responses. If, supposing, the sea is
responding to moon that means it has that mobility in it to respond. A stone
will not react to the moon.
In the same
way: in your heart these waves of these feelings are created by the experience
of spirituality, by the experience of your own being. And then you start
expressing them. And I could make it out. Such a person may not be so much
talkative, may not know much about Sahaja Yoga, but in the heart, in the
heart he feels a response. Is something to be achieved because you know that
the centre of heart is placed here. The peetha, the seat, of the Heart,
is on Brahmarandhra.
If your heart
is not open, in the heart if you do not have those responses built-in…they
need not be of awe or fear. But a natural protocol that develops. Then you can
never do wrong because you know what ever is good in your heart. Supposing you
love somebody from your heart – you are not going to harm that person. In the
same way, when you start feeling those responses in your heart, you can
never do wrong because they are now manifesting which were built within
you. Because there was spirituality, there was that divinity which was built
in. Now it is manifesting.
And then you do
not worry about things and you do not do anything outwardly. It is said
in Upanishads like Shandilya Upanishad, Kathopanishad that once you know the
Brahma, then all the outside things like wearing a thread of Yagyopaveeta and
all that, should be thrown away – it’s not necessary – because now you got the
sutra (thread) within yourself. Then you should give up all those outward
things because inside is all built-in now, is expressing itself. And such a
person automatically becomes a yogi of very high calibre.
