對家人的愛

*** 對家人的愛 ***

觀眾問：我參加(上次的)介紹講座，我感受到一種無以倫比的覺知與成長，我也感到我對我家人巨大的愛，但我也同時感覺到似乎我將和他們分開，好像我會逐漸地離他們而去。(譯者：這位觀眾覺得她似乎跨進了另一領域，好像會因此和家人疏離)

Shri Mataji 答：不，一點都不會，妳不會和他們分離，妳(永遠)是你家庭的一部分，但是妳(再也)不會陷溺在家庭的關係之中，這是重點！事實上，許多家庭反而因為有成員學習了霎哈嘉靜坐而重歸和好。在英國有一些練習者在參加了霎哈嘉之前是嬉皮，學習了靜坐之後又重新回到他們父母親的身邊，原本他們都不和父母往來的，甚至他們也帶父母來學靜坐。所以妳不必因為有這些體驗而有不必要的擔心。例如我們有一位原本是嬉皮的練習者，在得到自覺之後變得一切都很正常，也變成一位很好的人。他(重新)回去以前的家庭，他的父親成天喝酒，他擔心他父親將因酗酒而喪命，他勸他父親："不要再喝了！最好你來學靜坐，一旦你的昆達里尼升起來，你就不會再喝酒了。"，他的父親答道："但是我喜歡喝酒啊！"，所以他趁他父親出外喝酒時，將家中所有的酒瓶、酒杯全都打破，當他父親返家看到這一切時非常生氣，這位練習者不動聲色，只是笑笑地說："(你想喝的話)，可以去外面買啊！"，但他的父親已醉得無力外出買酒了！就這樣逐漸地，他父親也覺察到來自家庭的抗議，也了解家人不喜歡他飲酒的習慣。最終他戒酒了，也變成一位霎哈嘉練習者。

所以你必須去糾正(你的家人)，但是若你陷入家庭的關係之中，你可能不願意去糾正(其他的家人)，因為你害怕失去自己的小孩、親人。這種並不是愛，愛(一個人)必須去修剪他，愛(一個人)必須去糾正他，但是當然以一種不要太過強制、侵犯的方式去做，而是以一個簡單的方式。前面提到的那位父親，假如你不去糾正，他會因酗酒而喪命，所以真正的愛是不去縱容(你的家人)，而是將他當成一個原原本本的人，你可以看著他逐漸地變好，你可以去享受這過程中的點點滴滴。但是假如你陷溺在家人的關係之中，你可能變得自私，或只是表現出自己的佔有慾而已。但假如你不陷溺在家庭的觀念之下，你可以更看清楚自己、更看清楚家人，如此你對家人的愛反而會更多。家人之間必須有一些距離，如此真正的愛才可以運作流通。

當你可以從家庭的關係中抽離出來(detached)，你可以很清楚看到全貌，你也可以更享受家人的愛，因為在此狀態下你才可以看清楚愛，否則你是無法看清楚愛。當你陷溺於其中，你是很難看清楚的。

假如你陷在家庭的關係之中，(而不去做必要的糾正)，你的家人會沈淪，你也會跟著完蛋。所以你得到自覺是非常好，你可以用更好的方式來愛你的家人，以一種更有意義、更正確的方式來愛你的家人。愛應該是滋養對方，而不是毀滅對方。我們在社會上看到的所謂愛小孩，往往只是溺愛他們、寵壞他們。假如你愛你太太超過一個界限，那她會變成一個潑婦。假如你愛你先生超過限度，那他可能變成酒鬼。正確的愛絕對會去糾正對方的。像在英國有的婦女說："因為我愛我的丈夫，所以我讓他去做他喜歡的。假如他想有個情婦，那就讓他有個情婦，因為我是愛他的！"，這種以愛為名，而没有任何自尊的行為，其實是非常荒謬的。

註一： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在公開演講之後的後續工作坊(Workshop)的談話1985-03-17. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

Any other question? [UNCLEAR – WHAT?] I also [UNCLEAR] your lecture on Friday night [UNCLEAR] sometime – All right [UNCLEAR] – since Friday [UNCLEAR] question to my family [UNCLEAR] I had heard a lot but it’s also [UNCLEAR] and I’m worried about this [UNCLEAR] Good, I’m glad you raised that question. She came to your program, she felt tremendous [UNCLEAR] awareness and growth and she felt a great deal of love for her family but she’s also aware that maybe she’s going to feel apart from them – or they perhaps apart from her.

– No, you don’t get involved into them, that’s the point. You’re not apart, you’re part and parcel but you’re not involved. Say, supposing your child is sick, take it like this, and if you’re involved with the child then you cannot treat the child. You get so upset, you see, if you have to go to the hospital that side you’ll take your car the other side because you’re so upset. But when you’re detached you see the whole thing very well and you enjoy their love much more because you are in a position to see that love otherwise you don’t see love. When you’re involved you don’t see anything. – Maybe we feel as though we may drift away from… – No, no, not at all, not at all, not at all. on the contrary so many families have come round, so many. You see, we had some people in England they were mostly hippies and had left their parents, this, that – they all went back to their parents – they brought their parents to sahaja yoga also. Yes, it’s not like that but you do not take unnecessary burdens.

Now supposing, somebody’s father is a drunkard – we had one hippy who got alright and then he became very good. Now he’s doing very well in life, he’s very good fellow – so he went home and his father used to drink, drink, drink and he was worried this fellow is going to die after about alcoholism – so he didn’t know what to do. So he told him, “Don’t drink better take to sahaja yoga, if your Kundalini is raised you will not drink.” “But I like it,” he said. “All right.” So next he went he broke all his glasses and bottles. So when he came home he got very angry. He just kept quiet,this… just laughed. He said, ” You go and get some bottle from outside.” Then, he was already so drunk he couldn’t go out anywhere, you see, and gradually he found that there’s a kind of a protest from the family, they don’t like it.

the way he’s drinking – he gave up and he himself is a sahaja yogi today. So you correct. When we’re involved we don’t even want to correct because we’re frightened we’ll lose our children, lose our love and all that. This is no love. Love must prune a person, love must correct a person but in a way that is not so aggressive – in a simple way. And the fellow is saved, he would have been dead with alcoholism, he was about to die. So the real love comes, is not indulgences by seeing the person as he is. Then you enjoy all the beauties, little, little things that are done how it’s bubbling with joy and happiness – you see the other person better. But if you’re involved then you can be also selfish, it could be some sort of a possessiveness, can be anything but if you’re not, you see yourself and you see them – the love is much more. There should be some distance for the love to work out, isn’t it.

If you’re involved, they are doomed and you are doomed – sort of a position is there. So, it’s very good that has happened to you – now you can love them better, much better, in a much more sensible way. Love has to be nourishing not destroying. Mostly you find when you love your children, so called those who love, spoil them. If you love your wife beyond certain limits she becomes a shrew, if you love your husband he becomes alcoholic – like that. Love always, in the right sense, means correction. But if not, some people say, “All right my husband likes this, doesn’t matter.” Even in England some women say, “All right if he wants to have a keep let him have, I love him.” Can you imagine? “Because I love him let him do what he likes.”

Losing all your self respect, everything, in the name of love, is nonsense.

來到霎哈嘉的人有三種

*** 來到霎哈嘉的人有三種 ***

來(霎哈嘉)尋訪求道(seeking)的人有三種類別，最低的一種是他們有身體上的問題，或有一些不適、疾病，或已面臨死亡的威脅，在他們的心中有一些急迫，所以他們來到霎哈嘉。霎哈嘉是可以給他們一些幫助，但這不是霎哈嘉的首要優先的對象。(註一)

第二種來到霎哈嘉的人，在他們生命中(並非在追求真理)，而只是在追求其他一些不是很有意義的東西，如工作、金錢等等，但在這一種人之中，亦有一些人會想去了解為何他們會是如此，(去追求金錢、工作等)。

第三種人又可以分成兩類：第一類人是追求平衡、正法、公義，因為他們發現這世界中有許多可怕、有害、危險的人，他們擔心世界正在發生的各種災害戰亂，他們對此很震驚，所以他們想去尋找一個解決方案，也想知道自己為什麼會來到地球，這種人在梵文中叫 "bahirmukhis"，即他們的注意力放在外面(的世界)，但是都是針對精微、神聖的事物。第二類人是求道者(seekers)，他們在過去的累世已一直在追求真理，他們(可能過去)曾經待在喜馬拉雅山脈山谷裏，可能也試過種種的方法，然後在這一世又再度誕生在這裏，希望能尋得真理，他們是所謂的 "Antarmukhis"，即他們是向内追尋的人。

霎哈嘉的首要優先目標是要找到第三種人(註二)，第三種人中的兩個類型都一樣重要。當他們得到自覺之後，他們會同時獲致這兩種特質，即他們會變成一個向内追求的瑜伽士，同時他們也會和外面的世界連結、關心外面的世界。


註一：霎哈嘉可以治療許多疾病，Shri Mataji 在公開演講或私下場合也治療過無數的人，她也講過霎哈嘉練習者都有這個能力，但是她也一再強調治療疾病並不是霎哈嘉的目的。當聽眾在公開演講一直詢問疾病之種種，Shri Mataji常說能不能問一些更有意義的問題。

註二：Shri Mataji曾提過女神九次降世殺惡魔，就是為了拯救、保護求道者。Shri Mataji 這一生的精力主要也都是針對求道者，這是毫無疑問的。

註三： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在公開演講之後的後續工作坊(Workshop)的談話1985-03-17. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

There are three types of people who come to seeking. The lowest type are the ones who have some sort of physical ailments or some torture some diseases or who are on the verge of dying or something like that, an emergency in their mind so they come to sahaja yoga. All right, even if they come, they can be helped – that’s not our top priority. Then there are second type of sahaja yogies or we can say the people who come to sahaja yoga are the people who are seeking other things in life like jobs, money, this, that all nonsensical things.

But, among them there are some people who want to know the cause of the problem why they are like that. The third type are the people who can be divided into two one the type that seeks balance, dharma, righteousness because they find in the world people are so horrible, so mischievous, so dangerous, so restless – they get worried about all the worldly turmoils that are on, they get shocked and then they want to find a solution why have I come on this earth? This is one type as we call bahirmukhis – the ones, whose attention is outside but in a very subtler way, in a very Divine way. The second ones, in the same category, are the ones who are seekers who have been seeking in ages. They have been seeking in many lives they have been seekers of truth. They have been on hills and dales – Himalayas, everywhere – have done everything else and now born again here to be, to be able to find out the truth. These are called as Antarmukhis – these are the people who are inward. So the first priority we have to have of the third category, both the types are equally important. But after becoming realized, when you get your realization, then you achieve both the qualities simultaneously. You become a yogi inside and connected with the whole world.

大幻相的秘密 (下)

*** 大幻相的秘密 (下) ***

我的注意力是可以穿透渗入任何東西，而且我可以記住每一件事情，甚至在這個年紀(譯者：71歲)，我的記憶力依然十分良好。當我的注意力(投注)穿透某一事物時，它携帶著所有需要的力量，而且這些力量會運作，這就像一個自動的機器，非凡無比的機器，它是如此地精微，會創造出許多不可思議的成就，所以你們會告訴我這裏有一個奇蹟，那裏又有一個奇蹟。這些都不是奇蹟，只因為你們是在我身體裡面！假如我的身體是神聖的(Divine)，那麼有什麼是奇蹟呢？這只是(你和我之間的)連結溝通，我(可以)和你溝通連結。

但是有一件事是非常確定的，即你不應該迷失在Mahamaya的幻相(rupa，註一)，那是非常危險的，因為一旦你迷失了，那麼Mahamaya的力量就不會再作用於你身上。你不應該只是偶然將你的注意力放在霎哈嘉，那樣子不會成就。Mahamaya就像遥控器作用在我身體的每一個細胞(譯者：指霎哈嘉的練習者)的反映器(reflector)，也作用在你們的注意力，假如你們的注意力不妥當，它也會去糾正。這是讓人類可以更進一步演化的最好方法，也没有其他途逕了，因為這個世界人們的注意力並未放在靈(Spirit)上。.......

有些練習者離開霎哈嘉，我會説："没關係，假如他們離開，那很好，清除一些舊垃圾也是不錯，没有關係！"，然後他們又跑回來說："母親，這件(不好的)事發生在我身上，那件事情也發生了。......我們碰到了一個意外災難，某人生病了，某人非常不高興，我們的婚姻破裂了........"，我聽到這些只是微笑。(最終)他們又回來霎哈嘉，但他們已落後其他人，或許他們又慢慢再上來，但是因為他們遭受了一些苦難，所以他們昇進得比較慢。從另一個角度來看，這對其他人亦是一個很好的範例，讓他們不必遭逢相同的苦難。

發生在這些離開者身上的苦難，並不是來自Mahamaya，一點都不是。相反的，一旦你曾經尊我為母親，就會有一個保護的注意力在你身上。但是在你行為不當，在你跨過種種的紅線，這懲罰的力量就開始作用在你身上，.........。
在霎哈嘉中最糟糕的行為就是從我身上撈錢，因為他們知道我不擅於管錢，不熟悉銀行的事務。我對此是不擅長，但是我並不是不知道，我是知道所有(發生)的事，我知道每一個人的所有事情。他們欺騙我，我知道他們講謊話，但是這種行為是被容許的，你可以在霎哈嘉做任何你想做的事，但是你將必須為此付出代價........。但是我未並直接或間接去促成這些報應，這只是因為一旦你離開母親的保護，將會籠罩在那些負面力量，這部分也是你看不見的，因為你並没有明亮的眼睛(partly blind)，你既看不清楚你的母親，也看不清楚負面的力量，所以你會成為這些負面力量操縱的錯誤觀念、論調、文化下的犧牲者。像我知道有一位離開者，他目前又喝很多酒，又從事許多惡習，是他在他的惡習中迷失了，我並未對他做任何事。

假如你和我在一起，假如你在霎哈嘉裏，你會被照顧的，但你必須抓緊，你必須有信心。縱使你有任何困難，都會被解決的。但是那些離開霎哈嘉，那些超出我能顧及的人，他們就會遭受一些苦難。但是我從未以任何方式來傷害他們，不管是直接或間接的，因為我早已決定不會傷害任何人，尤其是那些叫我母親的人，我絕不願意去傷害他們。但是毫無疑問的，那些人會被(懲罰力量所)傷害，而且往往受傷很重。


註一：rupa的意思大約是"幻相、幻影"(1984-02-18)、"形態、狀態"(1986-08-23, 1996-10-20)，此處指Mahamaya的行事作為與戲碼等。

註二：另有一篇相關的譯文："大幻相" (  http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2016/06/mahamaya-mahamaya-mahamaya-adi-shakti.html )

註三： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在Shri Mahamaya Puja的談話1994-04-10. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

You see, my attention is such that it penetrates into everything, and I remember each and every thing very well. My memory’s very good, even at this age. So, you see, this attention itself is very penetrating and when it penetrates it carries with it all the powers that are required and acts. It’s a tremendous machinery, I should say, which is very subtle and works wonders. So you start telling Me that there is a miracle that has happened, miracle that has happened Nothing is a miracle because if you’re all in My Body and if My Body is divine, then what is a miracle? It’s all the communication, as this hand can communicates with this hand, I communicate with you.

But one thing is definite, that you should not get lost with this rupa of Mahamaya. It’s a very dangerous thing because once you get lost, “Oh, Mother,” after all, you see, like that, then it doesn’t act, it doesn’t work out. It’s not a casual thing, but I want to live very casually Myself to show that I’m casual, but I am not. While you should not pay your attention casually, that won’t work out because you are in My Body. Say, every cell in My Body is aware, and every cell has a reflector. I don’t know about, you know about it, but there is a reflector in us, which works on remote control. So it works on remote control on your attention also. If your attention is not all right, it corrects.
It puts- that’s the best way we could evolve human beings. There was no other way out because the attention of the people is, on the whole, in the whole world, is not yet on the Spirit.........

Now, there are some Sahaja Yogis who left Sahaja Yoga, went off. I said, “All right, if they have gone, very good. Good riddance of bad rubbish. Doesn’t matter.” And then they again come back. “Mother, this happened to us. That happened to us. Somebody got this. Somebody got that. We met with an accident, then somebody got the sickness. Somebody is very unhappy. We broke our marriage.” All kinds of things and when they say like this, I mean, they do like this, I just smile. So it’s a bad coin. All right, doesn’t matter. Again they come back to Sahaja, but they are left behind the others. They come up, but slowly, because they have suffered, so they have come. In a way, there’s a good example for others that we don’t want to suffer any more.

The sufferings do not come from Mahamaya, by any chance. On the contrary, once you have called Me the Mother, you see, there is a protective attention on you. Then you misbehave, you cross all the limits and things, then it acts on you. This action has taken place in many cases. Some of them have come back, some are still hanging around and are doing wrong things because they have done terribly wrong things and they know they’ll be found out.

Now the worst thing that happens in Sahaja Yoga, that people try to make money out of Me because they know I don’t understand money, I don’t understand banking and I’m very bad at it, but I’m not. I know everything. I know everything about everyone. They tell me lies. I know that they’re telling Me lies, but is allowed. Do what you like in Sahaja Yoga. You, yourself, will have to pay for it. It’s something so great with this Mahamaya rupa, that, directly, I don’t have to say anything. You don’t even know that it’s done. When it happens, they come rushing to Me, “Mother, it has happened.” Now, I have not done anything directly, neither indirectly, but once you go out of the protection of your Mother, there are all negative forces all around, which also you don’t see because you are partly blind. You couldn’t see your Mother and you couldn’t see these negative forces also. Then you fall a prey to their talk, things, whatever it is. or maybe into some paradoxical culture, as you have here. You may fall a prey to that. There’s somebody I know in Sahaja Yoga who has gone now and he’s now drinking a lot and he’s doing all kinds of things. So such a person gets lost because of his doings. I am not doing anything to him.

If you are with Me, if you are in Sahaja Yoga, you are protected, you are looked after, but you have to stick on, you have to have faith and even if there’s any problem, it gets solved. But those who have gone out of it, who go beyond My reach, then they suffer. So, even indirectly, I would say, I’m not in any way harming them because I’ve decided not to harm anyone. That I have decided on. Especially those who call Me Mother, I don’t want to harm them, but they get harmed. No doubt, they get harmed very badly.

大幻相的秘密 (上)

*** 大幻相的秘密 (上) ***

今天我決定來做Mahamaya (大幻相，註一)普祭，我從未談過Mahamaya，因為它(註二)不是可以用來談論的。它是一個秘密，是霎哈嘉瑜伽的基礎。在古書中有記載，當女神(Goddess), 或稱力量(Shakti)，來到頂輪(Sahastrara)時，她就是Mahamaya。所謂她必須是大幻相，表示她將會完全的偽裝，在初期没有人可以知道她是女神，甚至當人們得到自覺時，他們也無法完全了解她。這其中有許多理由：

首先是關係到Mahamaya的使命，她的使命是來給人們自覺。假如她是騎著一隻老虎，手上握著劍，那麼人們必然不敢靠近她，必然是離她遠遠的。給人們自覺是一個錯綜複雜的艱難工作，必須讓人們覺得這並不是由一個偉大的人物來授與，人們的心中也不能有恐懼感或太多的敬畏，所以Mahamaya的降世必須使人們能接近。當Mahamaya以一個平凡的家庭主婦來給人自覺時，是有一個很大的優點，人們會大吃一驚，他們會想："假如她能給人自覺，那麼爲什麼我們不能呢？畢竟一個普通的家庭主婦都能做如此重要的工作，我們應該也可以做得到。"，人們會因此有自信。

再者，做為一個母親，她有愛心與慈悲的特質，更重要的是她的耐心。過去的降世神祇都没有太多的耐心，祂們都以各種理由早早離世而去。而這個給自覺的工作是必須做到一個程度，(所以必須有相當的時間與耐心。)

第三點是人們必須參與進入我的身體(My Body)，如同成為我身體的細胞一般，這會使這個工作更困難，因為假如練習者有爭吵、有愚笨的行為等，他們會傷害到我，但這是無法避免的，不得不如此。我考慮的並不是我，而是你們練習者。當霎哈嘉有什麼事情弄錯了，或有練習者對其他人做了不好的事，或有練習者受到迫害，或有練習者生病，我的身體都可以感受到，我會私下地、很努力來將這些問題排除。今天他們告訴我有一位澳洲的練習者得到腦膜炎，立即我給了一個班丹，假如這位練習者對我有信心，且她在我的身體之内，那麼她必然會得到療癒。像人們常告訴我所謂的奇蹟，即有某一個練習者的病被治療了等等，其實那不是奇蹟，那只是Mahamaya的祝福！你們無法了解你們如何在我裏面，你們並無法看見，這就是所謂的Mahamaya。這其中有你們不知道的秘密：當我感到痛苦，假如我試著去看這痛苦，因為我具有治療的能力，所以你們就得到療癒，但是你們並不知道這是如何發生的。

當你們感覺集體有什麼阻塞時，我在我的身上都可以感受到。例如你們集體有左喉輪的問題，那麼我也會感覺到。你們集體的任何輪穴有阻塞，我也會有相同的問題，此時我必須去解決它，因為它造成我的困擾，我不得不去處理它。有些練習者可能因此想："母親，我們帶給您(很多)麻煩"，其實你們没有，這是我的工作，是我將你們放入我裏面，並不是你們，所以你們不用去擔心是否帶給我麻煩。這是我自己的工作，是我的責任。假如我去做這個工作，那是因為我本來就應該去做，所以你們不要因此有不好的感覺。

我以一個家庭主婦的身份來世，就是為了我可以接近你們，我不想讓你們有任何害怕或奇怪的感覺，或甚至感覺到我不是人類，我的行為舉止都完全像人類，我的反應也像人類，但是所有那些能力都隱藏在我内裏。除非等到你得到自覺，否則你是無法了解這些事。.......為了讓我們更能意氣相投，讓我更像一個人類，所以我也結婚、有小孩、有孫子，而且我也(喜歡)上街採購東西。有些人對我也喝可口可樂感到十分驚訝，這只是因為我必須(儘量)像你們(人類)，但是我的内在並不是如此，只是外在是如此。

註一：在這談話中，Mahamaya代表幾種意思：一. 駐在頂輪的女神(即Shri Mataji此生的化身)，二. 巨大、錯綜複雜的幻相。譯者在譯文中保留原文，請讀者自行於文中選用適切的涵義。

譯者說明：Maya 是幻相( illusion) 的意思，指遮掩真相的烏雲。舉例來說，錢、身份、地位、"我的"家人、名校、名牌等等皆是幻相。Maha 是大的意思，Mahamaya 字面上的涵義則是"大幻相"。

註二：原文是it，用"它"只是指稱，並無任何不敬之意。

註三： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在Shri Mahamaya Puja的談話1994-04-10. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

So today I’ve decided to have Mahamaya Puja. I have never talked about Mahamaya, as it is not to be talked or told – it’s a secret, as they say. Is the basic of Sahaja Yoga, I should say because is described when the Goddess comes in the Sahastrara, the Shakti, She is Mahamaya. “Sahastrara hai Mahamaya,” already described. She has to be the Mahamaya means She should camouflage Herself fully. Nobody should be able to know Her as the Goddess, to begin with, and even if they get realization they should not reach to the end of it. There are many reasons for that.

The first thing, the job. The job of Mahamaya was to give realization. Now, if I had come on a tiger with a sword in My hand nobody would have stood near Me. You all would have run away from Me. In any other form, if the Goddess had come, She could not have done what She was supposed to do. Moreover, only if She had come as the Mother of Christ or Shri Sitaji or you can say Fatima – they all ended their lives. They had to go away from this world so early, I mean.

They couldn’t do any work whatsoever. Now this work, difficult work of giving realization to others is very intricate. It has to work out in such a manner that nobody feels that it is done by some great personality or with a great awe or fear.
So the Mahamaya incarnation has to come, that people can come closer. Also, it has one advantage, very great advantages, that when a simple person who’s just a housewife starts giving realization, people are flabbergasted. Also they think, “If she can do it, why not we do it? After all, she’s just an ordinary housewife. So, it’s all right. If she can do something, we can also do it.” So they have self-confidence and, being a Mother, She does Her loving part, Her compassion, but the greatest is the patience. You see, none of them had so much patience, all these incarnations who came. You see how they disappeared from this Mother Earth quickly, I’d say, by some excuse or other. but I had to stay, I don’t know how long, but it has to be done up to a point, this work of giving realization.

The third thing was that you have to be identified into My Body, into My Cells of My Body, but this is a more difficult task because supposing one of you becomes stupid, becomes foolish, quarrelsome, anything you do, any small thing, it hurts Me. It has to, but I don’t think about Myself. I always think about you. So it’s an indication to Me that something has gone wrong somewhere. Somebody is doing something wrong to somebody. Some Sahaja Yogis are being tortured. Some are sick. Anything like that, I work it out very intensely and intimately.

Recently, today only, they told me somebody has got meningitis in Australia. Immediately, I gave bandhan. I’m sure such a person should be cured if she has any faith in Me and she’s in My Being. Or somebody is ill somewhere, they tell Me and such a person is saved. They call it a miracle. It is not a miracle. It’s not a miracle. It’s again the Mahamaya’s blessings are like this. You can’t see how you are inside Me. You can’t see your reflection within. You can’t see. This is Mahamaya. This is the secret part of it that you don’t know and then when I feel the pain and if I try, look at it, because I have power to cures, so you get cured. You don’t know how it happens.

Collectively, whatever you feel, I get it in My body. For example, collectively, if you have a left vishuddhi, I get it. If you have, say, right vishuddhi, I get it. Any chakra that you catch, collectively, I get that problem and I have to solve it because it troubles Me, so I solve it. It’s a compulsion that I have to solve it. Now in doing so, you see, you might think, “Mother, we are troubling.” You are not. It’s my doing. I have taken you into Myself. You haven’t. So you don’t have to worry as to, as if you are troubling Me. It’s my own doing work. It’s my own work. It’s my own responsibility. And if I have done it, it’s done it because I am supposed to do it. That’s the job I have to do. So there’s nothing to feel bad about it.

But now, what is the purpose? As I told you, is that I could come close to you and I need not, sort of, fill you with fear or oddness, or even a feeling that I am not a human being. I behave exactly like human being, I react exactly like human beings and all these powers are hidden within Myself. Unless and until you are a realized soul, you won’t understand. Whatever you may do, you won’t understand. Or maybe in the previous life you had your realization or maybe also you have done such tremendous punyas that you can recognize. There are people like that who have done it. But to make it more, sort of, congenial to you is to become absolutely a human being. So I married, I have children, I have grandchildren and I do shopping, as you see. People are surprised how I take Coca-Cola. I’m not supposed to take Coca-Cola? Or I eat popcorn. They’re surprised. But I have to be just like you. But inside I am not. Outside I am.

有左脈問題的人不宜泡腳

*** 有左脈問題的人不宜泡腳 ***

前言：靜坐時同時泡腳是許多練習者每天的功課，Shri Mataji 也多次提過練習者應天天用塩水泡腳(註一)，因為塩水泡腳可以清潔下面三個輪穴(1977-01-26)。
但是在大多數人都遵循此一成規之下，往往不知道Shri Mataji 也提過：偏左脈的人是不宜做泡腳。因為這種水療法(water treatment)會導致左脈的毛病不易去除。
譯者在Shri Mataji 的談話中搜尋到三次提及此點，翻譯其中最完整的一篇如下，其於兩篇則放在註三。

正文(譯文)：

為了(提高)發展你的品質，你必須靜坐，但是你必須知道你的問題所在，即你是偏左脈(left-sided)或是偏右脈(right-sided) ? 這是非常重要的。例如某些人有左脈的問題，但他們(竟然)去做水療法(譯者：指泡腳及冰敷肝臟)。德里的Nigam醫生，你們應該有不少人認識他，(先前)我治好了他的癱瘓麻痺(paralysis)的毛病，但是他的左手仍然不是運作的很好，這一點令我頗為訝異，所以我問他："你的靜坐是如何做？"，他答道："用燭火和水"，"什麼！你用兩者？"，"是的"，"什麼！你的問題在左邊，所以你應該只做燭火療法(candle treatment)，不需要再用水"。........
所以你必須知道你應該選用什麼療法(treatment) (註二)，對那些偏左脈的人，他們應該只做左脈的療法，不可以混淆。
我接著問他："誰告訴你如此做？"
他答："每一個人都如此說。"
我問："他們怎麼說？"
他答："可以如此做"(譯者：即燭火及水兩種療法一起做)。

在霎哈嘉裏，神聖的知識是有一些特定的法則。假如你的問題來自左邊，你要只做左邊的療法(譯者：燭火療法)，不需要做水的療法，完全不要！若你的問題來自右邊，則完全、完全不要用燭火療法。偏左及偏右都必須被矯正，如此才可以回到中間。當你覺得你在中間時，你就可以兩種療法一起用(譯者：即用燭火及水)，但是據我的觀察，處在這種情形的練習者很少。假如你處在中間，你是不必去做這些療法，但你仍是需要靜坐，在相片之前靜坐。但是若要去除一些制約等，或要去除白天(整天)帶來的問題，你可以坐在相片前，同時用一根蠟燭及水療法(譯者：指泡腳或再加上冰敷肝臟)；但是並非有此需要的人，則不必燭火及水一起做。

 

(1994/04/24 Shri Mataji 也有類似的談話：

睡前假如你有時間，你應該要泡腳。......在泡腳之前，最重要的是你必須知道你是屬於那一種特性的人。你們(香港人)大部分是偏右脈的，所以將你的右手朝向相片，兩隻腳都放入加一點鹽的水中，然後左手像這樣(舉高過肩，掌心向後)。但是有一些人是偏左脈的，尤其有些人是非常偏左，他們不應該用水療法。霎哈嘉有兩種(不同的功能的)療法，那些偏左脈的人尤其不應該去泡腳、不應該用冰敷法------這些都是治療偏右脈的人。……我仍是要再說一下，那些偏右脈的人儘可能也不要用燭火。)

 

譯者的結論：

1.將偏左、偏右的狀態拉回中間是比較重要，這比清潔下面三個輪穴來得優先。因為根據昆達里尼的理論，一旦處在中間，昆達里尼即容易上升，一旦它可以上升，它自動會去清潔輪穴的阻塞。人若不處在中間，很難進入無思慮的狀態，如此靜坐的效果也差，昆達里尼也不易升起。
泡腳故然十分重要、有益，但碰到左邊有問題的練習者，仍是要依Shri Mataji 的建議，暫時還不要泡腳，先單獨使用燭火療法，先治療偏左的問題，否則反而會事倍功半。這應該是Shri Mataji 談及此事，語氣皆十分強烈的用意。

 

2.至於偏右脈的人是否暫時先不用蠟燭？Shri Mataji 在2000-09-01的談話是如此說過(譯者搜尋後只找到這一次)，假如依Shri Mataji 的邏輯，譯者以為應先少用燭火，仍舊優先矯正偏右脈的問題。

 

註一：請見1983-01-29, 1983-01-21, 1980-07-21, 1980-09-07, 1988-09-21。

註二：Shri Mataji : 整體而言，只有兩種型態的毛病，一種是左脈的毛病，另一種是右脈。......所以治療的方法也很簡單，不是用三隻蠟燭(three-candle treatment，用來治療左脈的毛病)，就是用水來治療(water treatment，譯者：即泡腳或冰敷肝，是用來治療右脈的毛病)。-----請參看另一譯文："如何治療身心病-----以淋巴系統爲例"   ( http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/03/lymphatic-system-psychosomatic-disease.html )

註三：1990-02-28："他是一個偏左脈的人，讓他坐在相片前，並點一根蠟燭，左手向著相片，右手朝向大地，左腹輪處也放一根蠟燭，然後用(另)一根燭火來提升他的昆達里尼，但不要用水療法。"
1995-02-28："骨關節炎？你應該去做左邊的三根蠟燭療法，絕對不要用水療法，只做三根蠟燭療法，完全不要用水療法。"

註四：在針對右脈的人的水療法，Shri Mataji 在兩次談話中甚至講泡腳時只泡右腳(1996-03-10, 2000-09-01)。譯者認為不泡左腳是為了避免左脈過度冰冷的副作用。

 

註五：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji對練習者的談話1994-04-07. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

 

So, one aspect is that you have to meditate, no doubt. So, one thing is to develop quality you have to meditate. That I said. But you must know what is your problem. You are right-sided or left-sided. It’s very important to know whether you are right-sided or left-sided. Now some people have problems which are left-sided. All right, they start doing water treatment. There was doctor in Delhi, Dr. Nigam, you must be knowing him. He had, I had cured his paralysis. I was surprised that his left hand was still not working out properly.

So I asked him, “What sort of a meditation you do?”

He said, “With the light and with the water.”

I said, “What? You are doing both?”

“Yes.”

I said, “What, what’s wrong with you is right side [Shri Mataji corrects] – left side. So you should just do candle treatment. Just drop it.” I said it to him. Just when I said it to him, his hand started opening out. I said it only; becomes like a mantra I think. Started opening, he has opened his hand.

So about treatment also you must understand what treatment you must take. Now some people are left-sided. They should take left side treatment only. There should be no confusion.

So I said, “Who told you this?”

He said, “Everybody said the same thing.”

I said, “What did they say?”

“That you can take this.”

In Sahaja Yoga there are certain rules and regulations of the Divine. So now if you are suffering from the left, you just take treatment for left. No water treatment, at all. Now you are suffering from the right, then don’t take the candle treatment at all, at all. These are two sides which are to be corrected, then you are in the center.

When you feel you are in center, you can use both the things. But that is normally very few, I’ve seen. Normally you find very few people who have this central point. If they have, they should do this treatment. But there is no need to do treatment once you are in the center. But you have to meditate. So you can sit before the photograph. But to take out all your conditionings and things, or may be the day’s problem, you can sit before the photograph with a candle as well as water. But the ones who are not, should not. (1994-04-07)

 

Before sleeping, if you have time, you must do footsoaking. ……And in footsoaking first of all you must know what sort of a personality you have. Mostly you are right-sided, mostly.

So put [your] right hand towards the photograph, both the feet in the water with little salt and left hand like that.

But some are left-sided, some are definitely very much. They should not touch water. Two types of treatments are there.

Especially left-sided people should not soak, should not use ice.

This is all right-sided treatment. ……

But I would again say that right-sided people should not use candle as far as possible.(1994/04/24)

 

(A Sahaja Yogini asks about her mentally retarded son.)

What is the problem? Did she see the lunar eclipse when she was pregnant? You must have, by mistake you must have, that’s the reason. It’s not difficult, he’s a left-sided person. Put the left side towards Me and right hand on the Mother earth. You see this is how you have to make him sit before My photograph and a candle here, and also put a light near his left Swadisthana and keep it there. And raise his Kundalini with the light but no water treatment for him. Raise the light. Three candles, one in front, one here, one there to raise the Kundalini.(1990-02-28)

What’s it? Osteoarthritis. Who has? You should do your left side three candle treatment. All right? No water treatment. Three candle treatment. No water treatment at all. All right?(1995-02-28)

承擔你的力量

*** 承擔你的力量 ***

事實上在普祭時你念誦這些力量(Shaktis)的名字，在你的内裏的祂們亦被喚醒，在普祭之後你感知到如此，但是你並未去使用這些力量。這就是我看到的許多人，他們來參加普祭，在内裏他們獲得了這些力量，但是當他們離開時，這些力量就不見了。

所以當我們談順服(註一)時，其實還有另一方面，即"承擔" (assumption)。首先一方面是順服，順服是為了吸收(這些力量)。當你順服時，你自動會吸收，一旦你吸收了(這些力量)，你應該保持及承擔這些在你内裏的力量，並理解到你已有這些力量。在這方面，許多霎哈嘉練習者都未做到。

當年我開始給人自覺時，没有任何一位練習者願意嘗試去提升他人的昆達里尼，當時約有五十位練習者。我心中想："怎麼辦？我已將他們變成好的工具，可是他們没有一個人願意揮動他們的手(來提升他人的昆達里尼)，該如何來解決這個問題呢？"。直到有一次有一場大型的公開推廣活動，我的車子在半路拋錨了，已到場的練習者在等不到我的情況下，只好說："好吧！我們來給這些新人自覺吧！"。這就是霎哈嘉練習者第一次知道他們可以給人自覺、他們可以做這個、他們可以做那個。在這之後他們就都開始給新人自覺了。所以你們心中應有這個承擔：
知道我有這些力量，我將不會浪費它們，我會(好好)利用它們，我將要去照顧其他新人，我不會將這些力量只私藏於自己。
做為一個霎哈嘉練習者，這種承擔必須到位。

有一次我搭船旅行，有一位船員因被困在冷凍庫而導致肺炎。船長來找我，告知我說："那位船員有肺炎，所以我們必須找直升機載一位醫生上船"，我說："船長，我已經給你自覺，你就是一位醫生"，"誰？我？"，"就是你！但你若需要我去，我可以去治療他"，"不！不！不！但請您告訴我該如何做"，我說："你去將你的手放在他的心臟處，就這麼簡單！"，他照著做，那位船員就好轉痊癒了。船長他自己也十分訝異，他問我："我可以對其他人做這樣的治療嗎？，"你當然可以！"

但是假如你不去承擔(這個力量)，只是坐在那邊靜坐、再靜坐，只是去順服，那有什麼用處呢？所以在你達到濕婆神(Shiva)的狀態後，你必須去做，去做太初之母(Adi Shakti)的工作，你應該要有傳播霎哈嘉的願望，我們必須(一起)來成就！

就順服而言，首要之事即是要到達你的靈(Spirit)的狀態，即濕婆神和至高濕婆神(Sadashiva)的狀態。第二個階段則你必須想到其他的人。在梵文中，第一個階段叫vyashti，意思是 "個人的獲益"，即你得到個人的好處。第二個階段是 samashti，意思是 "集體的"，你必須在集體層面來成就。

註一：請看本談話前部的譯文："順服(上)------捨棄制約" ( http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/12/surrendering-ego-conditionings-sanyasi.html ) ;及"順服(下)------放下自我" ( http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/12/ego.html )

註二： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji在Mahashivaratri Puja的談話1994-03-14. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

Actually in the puja when you take the names of these Shaktis they also get awakened within, no doubt. After puja you do feel that way but you don’t utilize them. So many people I’ve seen have come in the puja and they have got that power within themselves, same powers. But by the time they are out, it’s finished, it’s gone.

So, surrendering has another side: assumption. Assumption that I am a Sahaja Yogi and I can absorb all these powers within myself. So one side is surrendering. Why to surrender? To absorb. Automatically when you are surrendered you absorb. But once you have absorbed, then you should retain and assume within yourself, know that you have these powers. There, where Sahaja Yogis fail more. First time it happened, no Sahaja Yogi would touch anybody raise anybody’s Kundalini, this thing, that thing. We had at least fifty Sahaja Yogis by then. I said, “Now what to do, I have prepared these channels and nobody is even raising their fingers. How am I going to work it out?” Very difficult!

But once it happened we had a program in Nasik Road and I was staying in Nasik. It’s about, I think, thirty miles from there. So, we reached halfway and our car failed and nobody no other car was coming, nothing, no support, nothing. I didn’t know what to do. But these, all the Sahaja Yogis had arrived there, and such a big crowd. They started saying, “When is Mataji coming? When is Mataji coming?” Such a pressure! So they said, “It’s all right, we’ll give you Realization, sit down.” And they gave Realization. That’s the first time the Sahaja Yogis started knowing that they can give Realization, they can do this, they can do that. They all started after that. So assumption should be there, that I have these powers, I am not going to waste them, I am going to use them, I am going to look after others, I am not going to just keep to myself. This assumption has to come.

Once I was traveling by ship and one fellow got caught up in the freeze room and he got pneumonia. So the captain came to Me ‘That see this boy has got pneumonia, we have to get some doctor by helicopter.’ I said, “Captain, I’ve given you Realization, you are a doctor.” He said “Who, I?” “Yes, you.” “If you want, I can go down.” “No, no, no, but tell me what to be done.” I said “Just go and put your hand on his heart, finished.” “I” he said. “Yes, you!” Went down and put his hand and the fellow got all right. He was amazed. He met Me now in the wedding – and he was amazed at himself. “This I can do to anyone?” “Yes, yes, you can!” But if you do not assume, and just sit down meditating, meditating, surrendering … what’s the use? So, you have to do, now after achieving Shiva state you have to start doing the work of Adi Shakti. You should get this desire that we should spread Sahaja Yoga, we have to work it out. ..........

So the first thing of surrendering is important to reach the state of your Spirit, of Shiva and Sadashiva. But the second state is that you have to now think of others. First it is as they say in Sanskrit is vyashti, means individual gain, you get the individual gain. And then it becomes samashti, means the collective. You have to work it out on collective.