為什麼掌心有涼風就代表是真的？

-----為什麼掌心有涼風就代表是真的？------

凡我所說的，你都可以從你手掌的涼風來驗証，但是你如何知道掌心有涼風就代表這是真的呢？

這可以從相對比較(relativity)的常識來了解。假如你從精神病院找來兩個瘋子-----医生認証的精神完全失常的人，你兩個手掌朝向他們，你的指掌會有可怕的麻熱的感覺，或許你整個左手掌都會發熱(註一)。然後你(離開他們)再双掌向上問如下的問題："真的有神存在嗎？ " 或問："神的力量是無所不在嗎？"(註二)，此時你的手掌心就會有清涼的感覺。從這截然不同的涼熱，你就可以知道無所不在的力量就是以涼風來告知你什麼是真的(註三)。你可以如此來試驗你手掌上涼熱的感覺。

註一：Shri Mstaji 說精神失常的人在她的相片之前會不停地顫抖 (或說：双手朝向她或她的相片，双手會抖動)。其他如宗教狂熱分子(fanatics)、集端分子(extremist)、吸毒者(druggist)、吸食化學物品成瘾者（chemist）或癌症病患皆會有相同的反應。即我們也可以用這些人來試驗指掌的麻熱。在其他的談話中，Shri Matsji 也提到可用希特勒(或史達林) 來實驗 (1984-08-08, 1992-07-23)，或也可問如下的問題："希特勒是聖人嗎？"  來試驗掌心是否發熱。
註二： Shri Mataji 在其他的談話亦提過可問如下的問題："耶穌基督是神的兒子嗎？"(1992-07-23)或  "Shri Mataji 是太初之母(Adi Shakti)嗎？"
註三：譯者解釋：Shri Mataji 乃指從絕對的謬誤(即瘋子)所產生的熱，來推論出清涼所代表的正是謬誤的相對，即絕對的真理（代表"對"的答覆）。這即是Shri Mataji 所謂的"相對比較(relativity)的常識"。

註四：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 的談話1980-07-21. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

.........whatever I say now you can test it on your vibrations.

Now how will you know that these vibrations are telling you the Truth? It is very simple if you understand the common sense of relativity. Like, bring two mad people from lunatic asylum absolutely certified as mad, alright? And then – Paul is laughing – and then get two sane people sitting down. Now you put your hands towards the people who are mad and you will get horrible burning in here, maybe in here, maybe in the whole hand on the left side. And they themselves, before My photograph will be going on like this (shaking). Many go. Even they look sane but they [do], many like that. All fanatics, all extremists, all sorts of people, they go on like this; spiritualists again, druggists, chemists (laughing), cancer patients. It’s different frequency, different style in every way, alright? So you get 10 cases like that. Now you ask the question, “Is there God?” and you start getting cool breeze flowing into you. “Is His power all-pervading?” You start getting a cool breeze flowing. That is how you find out which is the Truth. Where, what I am saying, what vibrations are telling is the Truth or not. That is how you can test your vibrations.( 1980-07-21)

 内涵才是重點-----以謙卑為例

你必須知道如果你只是一個得到自覺的靈，那並不是重點；你可以在双掌感覺到能量(vibration)，那也不是重點；你可以给人自覺，那也不是重點。那麼什麼才是霎哈嘉練習者(Sahaja yogis) 的重點？什麼才是你最需要關注的？那就是你的内在、内涵( content )。前述的種種(自覺的靈、感知能量、給人自覺)只不過是你的内涵的外顯而已。
所以我們必須往內看我們有什麼内涵。當我們討論内涵時，我們可以先來看大自然中什麼最有内涵呢？大海是自然界中最具有包容力、最有内涵的，它充滿了水，這水是來自世界各地。它又容許自己接受陽光的曝曬而產生蒸氣，進而形成雨水。大海是處在最低的位置，也因為如此它才可以接收地表各處流來的水。同樣地，做為一個霎哈嘉練習者，我們外在應處在一個較低的位置，如此才能獲致較大的内涵(内容)。聖經裏說：你必須逆來順受 ( You have to be meek. 註一)，我想這句話並沒有很清楚被人們理解。其實只有強大的人才有能耐表現出柔順，只有内心有十足安全感的人才能顯得温順，只有本質豐富的人才可以逆來順受；絕對不是那些缺乏安全感的人可以做得到的。如果他都缺乏安全感，如何能外顯出真正的温順呢？正如那些世俗所謂的富翁，他們並不是真正的有錢人，他們既不慷慨，也不是樂善好施的慈善家，他們只是内心不滿足而想要更多錢的人，說穿了，他們只是一個貪婪的乞丐而已！一個内心不滿足的人如何能是一個有錢人呢？
有許多練習者說：我們愛母親，母親也愛我們。這愛固然是很好，但是你們必須更進一步知道那些特質是霎哈嘉練習者所應該擁有的。事實上許多練習者在得到自覺後仍然很容易迷失，他們以為得到自覺之後他們可以克服任何險阻，他們一切都會很順利；但是往往一下子就翻車，摔了一個大筋斗。所以聖經說：你必須逆來順受。這逆來順受就是一種練習者需要的内涵。這逆來順受指的就是如同大海的謙卑，就是一種内涵。試著學習謙卑，對每一個人謙卑，如此你會漸漸地喜歡你自己，開始享受自己的内涵。
當一個練習者有種種内涵(註二)時，集體的無意識(collective unconscious)，即無所不在的神聖力量，就會來行動、來幫你。所以這些内涵才是霎哈嘉練習者最大的資產。

註一：meek 指逆來順受、柔順的意思。Shri Mataji 認為聖經講的meek 即是謙卑的意思。

註二：Shri Mataji 在此篇談話亦談及其它重要的内涵，但是關於謙卑則是解釋得最清楚，所以譯者即專注在提到謙卑的段落。本篇譯文的重心是在"内涵才是重點"，謙卑只是用來讓大家了解何謂"内涵"，相信大家都可舉一反三，知道Shri Mataji 提過的許多特質皆是重要的内涵。

註三：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 的談話1989-10-08. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

But one has to know that only we are realized souls is not the point, only that we can feel the vibrations is not the point, that we can give realizations to other is also not the point. Then what is it? Very important – it’s the content within us. What do we have within us is the point. These are all the expressions of what we have within. Supposing somebody is generous, then know that he’s a rich man, otherwise he cannot be.

So the content within us, we have to see. And when we start seeing the content, where do we find in the nature there is real content? We see the sea; sea is there you see, full of water. So much of water it sucks in from everywhere, and then it allows itself to be boiled by the sun and gives rain. But sea is the lowest level, stands at the lowest level and sucks in all the water from everywhere. In the same way a Sahaja yogi must know that to be really achieving more content, we have to be not at a higher level outside. It’s said in the Bible, “You have to be meek,” but I think it was not explained to people. Only the strong people can be meek, secured people can be meek, only the rich in essence can be meek, not the people who are insecured. Because they are insecured, how can they be meek? And not the people whom we think are rich, so-called, because if they are rich they are not generous, they are not satisfied, they are not philanthropic, so they are not rich. They are still greedy beggars.

So the content within us is to be seen. What is our content? You love Me, I love you – it’s very good. But when you love Me, you have to know that there are certain qualities which are very lovable in a Sahaja yogi. Actually people get lost even after Sahaja Yoga. They think they can get over everything, they’re perfectly all right, and they are thrown overboard. So when we say that we have to be meek, this is a content, the humility is a content. So try to that, try to be humble with someone. You’ll like yourself. You’ll enjoy that quality within this that, “You see, I’m humbler than another person.”

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So when the Sahaja yogis have that content within themselves, the collective unconscious, the Divine will act, definitely act. Like a person who is spreading advertisements, this that, yes people come. Because he takes money they think they can purchase this man. But where there is no money involved, no business involved, nothing, you people are just simple people just like them, so? But it’s all done by the Divine, isn’t it? So the Divine works it out. But if the Sahaja yogis in a place are good for nothing, then even if I am there it does not work. Half-hearted people if they are it does not work. In no way to discourage you but to tell you that you have to develop your content within yourself, a complete faith in yourself. This is the greatest property of a Sahaja yogi.(1989-10-08)

當代宗教的問題

------當代宗教的問題-------

當今我們面臨的很大危險之一即是宗教的基本教義主義(fundamentalism)，幾乎無論那一個宗教皆背離它原先開創者。人類歷史上這些不同時代、不同地域的先覺者、聖人、先知或降世神衹，他們都是靈性大樹上面美麗的花朶，他們都是吸收同樣神聖汁液而綻放的花朶，他們在世界各地散發著相同的愛的芬芳。但是這些美麗的花朶却被後人(追隨者)從靈性樹上摘取下來，而成為毫無生命的宗教，再也沒有任何的芳香與生命力。

宗教原本應該是要給予人價值，要把人從受制於原始動物本能中提升出來，使人脱離那些基植於不安全感、害怕及衝突的原始部落天性。宗教原本是要使人走向平衡，為最後的靈性昇進做準備，即變成内在有光而圓滿的人。這樣子的人是完全知道神聖的宇宙法則，因為他們是和上帝有連結的。這即是這些聖人及神祇們來世的原本目的。很不幸的，隨著時間的推移，宗教變成了人類之間最大的衝突來源。這些宗教人士表面鼓吹愛及盲目的信仰，但是他們實質上却是完全的金錢導向或權力導向，而那些在上位的宗教人士本身也不認識神，和神也沒有任何的連結，他們沒有任何實相(reality)的知識，他們所知所談者皆是屬於幻相的。這些由人所創造的宗教甚至扭曲原始的經典，或是只用他們的頭腦去解釋它。所有的宗教最原本的精義即是要人明瞭人類的有限，而利用有限的生命去追求永恆、追求上帝的國。相反地，這些由人創造的宗教却是一種以為自己是上帝的選民，進而鼓吹仇恨、渺視他人(異教徒)的組織，那些忠實的追隨者、盲信者更是有能力犯下各種可怕的罪行。這都是因為他們無法感知内在最高指導的靈(Spirit)。人唯有在得到自覺之後，内在的靈才能成為真正的高我(主人)，來指揮種種較低層的自我。
正也是由於這些宗教的種種問題，許多現代人並不相信有一位全能的上帝，他們只相信科學可以證明的事物。

註一：Shri Mataji 在一生的談話中談及此問題可謂是無數多次！這是每一個 yogi不可不了解的議題。了解此問題則更能知悉Sahaja Yoga 和其他宗教的差異.

註二：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 的談話1989-09-01. JSM ! 敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

Crucial and dangerous problem we must face is surely that of religious fundamentalism and we cannot point the finger at any religion in particular. Wherever you see or look you find that the concept of religion has strayed far from the original ideas of its founder. I have said many times before and I say it again now, on the tree of spirituality many beautiful flowers have appeared as seers, saints, prophets and Divine incarnations at different times. Those flowers were nourished by the same sap of Divinity that manifests the fragrance of love for the whole world. But they were plucked from the tree of life by human beings and now these dead flowers have become so many dead religions without any fragrance or vitality.

Religion is meant to make human beings worthy, to transform them from their state of subjection to their original animal instincts and after that wean them from their tribal instincts, which are based on insecurity, fear and conflict, balancing them to prepare them for their final transformation into enlightened and complete human beings, conscious of Divine laws through their connection to God, God Almighty. This was the original intention at the awakening of the various religions in different parts of the world and the message of God to make human beings aware of his power of love, beauty and [unclear: could be grace].

Unfortunately, in the course of time, religion has become a point of the most tremendous conflict. They preach love and blind faith, while they themselves have become money- or power-oriented and those in the highest position of these so-called religion and religions do not themselves know God. They have no knowledge of reality. In these days these man-made religions have twisted or rationalized the words of pure scriptures. For in their pure form all religions are created from one universal principle: seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, that is, seek the eternal which is unlimited and use the transitory only with a clear understanding of its limitations. But on the contrary, in practice, man-made religions are organized for the contempt and hatred of others on the assumption that we are the chosen ones and yet no matter what field they may profess these staunch believers are capable of committing any number of sins. This is because they do not have the consciousness of the guiding principle of the spirit which spontaneously acts in our attention, only after self realization, which leads eventually to total enlightenment. Then the good or higher self controls the lower or baser self. This is realized within our being on the pathway to ascent in this Kali Yuga or Dark Age [unclear].

Now, what I have found is that instead of uniting people, instead of making human beings good and loving, religions actually turn people into self-opinionated mental acrobats and fearsome defenders of truth. Of course, the truth in fact defends everyone and is in need of no defense. In the end all one can say about man-made religions is that the tree is known by the fruit it bears. Of course, as a result many people do not believe in God. They do not believe in God at all. They believe only what can be scientifically proved, what can be demonstrated to give results. (1989-09-01)

導師原理與創造力

------導師原理與創造力------

今天我們是來祟拜導師(Guru)，當我們對我們的導師做祟拜時，我們必須知道我們是試圖喚醒我們内在的導師原理(Guru Principle)。在每一個人的裏面都存在導師原理，這導師原理是很優美地環繞著臍輪(Nabhi chakra)，這個原理的邊界正是由腹輪(Swadisthana)環繞臍輪的運動所界定出來。

腹輪這個輪穴給你最重要的特質即是創造力(creativity，註一)，所以創造力是一個導師自然擁有的特色。假如你不是一個有創造力的人，那你不能成為一個導師。舉例來說，一個導師如何來跟他的門徙交談呢？你必須有能力創造出具有神聖力量的話語，來使你的門徒或群眾們信服，使他們相信你具有比他們更多的神聖力量。

假如你是一個普通、平凡的人，或你無法創作出一組雅俗共賞的對聯或一句優美的辭句，或你無法講一個幽默的笑話，或畫一幅美麗的畫，或設計一幅令人目不轉睛的壁氈或一間賞心悅目的房子，這皆表示你缺乏創作力，缺乏導師原理。導師正是能將平凡的人創造成(轉化為)非凡的人，他必須有能力將一個逐漸下掉的人格轉化成一個嶄新的人格。

得到自覺之後，你有能力去提升昆達里尼( Kundalini )，你有能力去治療病人，你有能力去解說三脈七輪的知識，但是假如你無法在你的學生身上創造出一個新的人格，那麼你仍然不是一個導師。許多人得到自覺之後，他們會來參加普祭(puja)，他們也聽霎哈嘉的音樂，或許他們也學霎哈嘉的舞蹈，他們也來參加集體的活動，但是他們的導師原理仍然未被喚醒，除非他們開始創造更多的霎哈嘉練習者。

所以一個導師的遠景應該是：我創造出多少的霎哈嘉練習者？我如何發揮靈活的創作力來創造更多的霎哈嘉練習者？

註一：creativity 中文可翻成創作力或創造力，指一種靈活的開創能力。

註二：Shri Mataji 談的導師原理包含甚多、甚深，很難在一篇譯文囊括導師原理的各個層面，所以譯者採取切割的方法，逐一來談導師原理的各個相關的要點。

註三：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 的談話1989-07-23. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

Today we have had to spend a little more time than normal to get to the stage where we could really worship the Guru. When we worship our Guru, we have to know actually we are trying to awaken the Guru Principle within ourselves. It’s not only that you are here to worship your Guru; you may worship many-a-times, maybe the vibrations would flow, maybe that you might get filled with that and you feel elevated, nourished. But this nourishment has to be retained within ourselves, so always remember then, whenever you are worshipping any principle outside, you are trying to worship your own principle within yourself.

Within us as you know, in all of us there lies the principle of Guru. It’s very interesting to notice the Guru Principle being drawn beautifully round the Nabhi chakra. We never see any chakras connected with the Guru Principle. You see Nabhi, and around is the Bhavasagara. So this Bhavasagara which is the Ocean of Illusion cannot be the Guru. So there are hidden chakras within this Bhavasagara within us, which are to be awakened and to be brought to light, to be manifested. As you can see that the limits of this principle are done by the movement of the Swadisthana chakra.

Swadisthan is the chakra which gives you, first and foremost thing, is the creativity. A person who is a guru has to be creative by nature. If you are not a creative person you cannot become a guru. For example, you are faced with disciples with whom you have to converse: you have to create a word of divine magic to impress on the disciples or the people who are attracted towards you as gurus, to show that you have much more divine magic than them.

If you are a very mundane type of a person, very ordinary, cannot create a beautiful couplet or a beautiful sentence, or a humor or a joke, or a beautiful painting or a beautiful tapestry or a beautiful house; if you lack in creativity you will lack in your Guru Principle, because a guru has to create out of ordinary people something extraordinary. He should be able to create a new personality out of an old personality which is decayed. So the first principle you have to understand within yourself, that you should be able to create a new personality in a person.

So how do we do it? Of course you have got powers to raise the kundalini, you have got powers to cure people, you have got powers to talk big or talk small. Despite all that, if you cannot create a new personality out of the persons with whom you are dealing, then you are not a guru. And the new personality has to be a special personality of very unique combination of compassion and dynamism. So it is important that in your creativity you have to use the energy of compassion. You can only mold people through compassion and never through anger, never through suppression, never through showing off your powers of gurudom. Unless and until you handle the situation and the personality very carefully, showing all the respect, showing all the concern and all the love for the person whom you are giving realization; just showing off that you are a great guru, it will only create a kind of a fear about you, and after some time people would not like to see your faces.

So the most important thing about Guru Principle is that you have to create. Many people get realization, all right, they get realization and then they stay in some ashrams maybe. They come to pujas, they listen to music, they may dance, they laugh, they’re collective; but still their Guru Principle is not awakened unless and until they have created many, many more Sahaja yogis – Sahaja yogis. So the vision of a guru should be, “How many Sahaja yogis I am going to create? How am I going to use this creativity to create more Sahaja yogis?” (1989-07-23)

霎哈嘉練習者要經常看報紙

------霎哈嘉練習者要經常看報紙------

霎哈嘉練習者並不是要過著和社會、政治及所有正在發生的一切事都没有關係的生活。他必須去關注所有發生的事情，他必須(每天)看報紙，當然不是在吃早餐的時候(註一)，在下午看報紙即可。因為他必須知道現在發生了什麼事(註二)，他必須將注意力放在這些事上面。光是把注意力放在這些事情上面，就會對這些事有所幫助、有所成就。我時常就是這樣做。光是這樣的注意力就可以讓希特勒無法成功。所以每一個練習者都需要知道你擁有可以成就事情的注意力，這注意力可以創造你所期望的。但是你必須將你的注意力放在周遭正在發生的事情，持續關注，而不是只侷限在你自己身上。

假如你去某一個國家，試著去了解這個國家正在發生的事，因為你是一個屬於全球的公民，而不是只屬於某一個國家的公民。你必須去了解世界各地正在發生的事，因為你需要去改變所有的事，你需要去轉化這些事。

註一：Shri Mataji 一再強調吃早餐時看滿佈壞消息及聳動新聞的報紙是會使你的脾臟瘋狂，這是血癌的原因之一。
註二：Shri Mataji 在其他的談話曾經說她一天看八份報紙。

註三：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 的談話1988-12-20. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

So a sahaja yogi is not a person who is just a sort of lives without any connection with the society, with the politics, with all that is happening. He has to be seeing all those things that are happening. He must read newspaper if not in the morning, in the evening time. Means, he must know what is happening. He must put his attention to all these things. Only putting attention to things, it works out. I have done that all the time. Even Hitler lost his success because of that attention. So one has to know that you have that attention that can work, that can really create what you want. But you must keep your attention alert, not only limited to yourself. Not only up to say, India tour or we can say up to bhajans. But must go beyond and put your attention everywhere, what’s happening.

Supposing you go to any other country: try to find out what is happening in this country, in that country what is happening. Because now you are international people and you have to bother about everything that’s happening in this world because we have to change everything, we have to transform everything. (1988-12-20)

為何你會喪失力量( Power)

  ------為何你會喪失力量( Power)------

一個得到自覺的人會擁有許多力量，你應該去喚醒你内在的這些力量，了解這些力量，讓這些力量發揮出來。但這些力量有時候會消失，你可以再喚醒它，但可能一段時間後又消失。為什麼這些已被喚醒的力量會消失呢？原因是什麼呢？

像有些人進入霎哈嘉之後變成很好的藝術家，他了解藝術的精髓，他對美的敏感度也增加了，他的内在對藝術發展出一種覺知，外人也説這個人是很特別。但是隨著他慢慢涉入藝術界，他建立一些聲譽，也獲得一些美名。漸漸地他和這些種種糾纏在一起，他當初的一些能力就消失了，因為他的這些能力(力量)也和這些種種糾纏在一起。你要知道你的這些能力是來自母親的力量(Shakti)，是這個力量流經你，你只是Shakti 的工具( instrument) 而已，並不是你擁有這個能力。假如你知道你只是 Shakti 的工具，那麼你就永遠不會喪失這些能力。

就像有些學生本來在課堂上十分平庸，當他們學習霎哈嘉後一下子跳到最優秀的班级，各方面都非常突出。然後他們就開始想：我變成非常偉大了！一旦他們開始這樣想，他們的表現就立刻下掉。同樣的，假如你的工作業績增加了、你賺更多的錢，或不可思議的事發生在你身上，此時你應該如何做呢？你應該完全認知到：是母親做所有的這些事，並不是你成就了這些事。是這些力量經由你來成就這些事，而不是你自己完成了這些事！

你隨時要保持警惕，否則你的能力(力量)就會消失！

註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 的談話1988-10-16. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

But you have so many Shaktis in You, so many, that you should awaken them, know them, let them bloom, be happy and respect yourself.
Now these powers, even in Sahaja Yogis, get destroyed, then get awakened again, again they get destroyed then get awakened. What is the cause of this? The power that is awakened why does it get destroyed.
Like now a person becomes a great artist. After entering Sahaja Yoga many people become good artist, they understand and know the art, their sensitivity is increased, they have awareness in them and everyone says, this person is extraordinary but then he gets involved in that art. He gets prestige, earns name and gets entangled in them. When he gets entangled in them his powers get destroyed because his powers also get entangled in them.
As I told you earlier, what happens in a tree, its living force (nutrient) flows through every branch, every leaf, flows and return back. Likewise these powers that you have today – which are working for you – are the products of this shakti. You have nothing to do with it but are only instrumental for these powers and once you know that you are only instrumental, these powers will never weaken or they will never get destroyed.

Many a times I have seen that the Attention of the Sahaja Yogis goes into this things very fast. If they get into prominence with something, if they have progressed fast with something, many students who where not grown in the class, come out first class, everything is getting better then they think, now I have become great. As soon as they start thinking that, the powers go off.
Now we should think that what we should do. If your business has increased, you have started getting a lot of money, something extraordinary has happened to you, then what you should do? We should know fully that “Mother you are doing everything, I am not doing it. It is your power that is working. I am not doing anything”. It is very important that you remain alert, because after this when you powers get destroyed, you only will say that Mother the power has gone and everything has gone.