明辨力與心輪(之四)

----明辨力與心輪(之四)----

每一個人都把"愛"掛在嘴邊，愛這個、愛那個，尤其在西方世界(在印度就不會這樣)，但是其實没有任何愛。但是對錢財、對權位，人們倒是愛不釋手，這些都不是純粹的愛(Nirvaj, 即 pure love)。

母親是你的導師，(在求道的路上)你必須以個人的身份來面對導師，而不是將你的家人、叔叔阿姨、甚至祖父母等等所有的親戚都帶到霎哈嘉來。當你面對你的導師時，你必須有這個明辨力，這在霎哈嘉是非常重要的。

(譯者：將家人親戚帶進來霎哈嘉(尤其指希望霎哈嘉解決親人的問題)，在許多人看來是愛(心輪)的自然表現，但Shri Mataji 認為過度這樣做其實會帶給霎哈嘉很大的困擾，也表示你無法走出家庭的執着，也不知道霎哈嘉是個人和母親的關係，所以是沒有明辨力的行為。)

假如經由你的心輪，你被某些人所吸引，或所謂的魅力或其他有的沒有的(譯者：指儀表、容貌等)吸引了你，這都表示你被某些非常表面的(superficial)東西所抓住，那些表面的東西其實没有任何重要的本質(gravity)在裏面。所以心輪的明辨力應該是：你和任何人的關係都是一種抽離的、没有執着(detached)，如此你的愛就可以滋養萬事萬物。(譯者：即不會因某人的某些表面的特質而被吸引，以致於特別喜歡他。)

有些人的愛執着在丈夫，有些人執着於小孩，有些人只關愛狗，或只是植物，這些都是非常没有明辨力的！你應該將你的關愛均分到萬物。或許應如此說：你應該如此地没有任何執着，以致於你對每一個人的關愛都是完全相同的。没有執着(detachment)表示你靜觀萬物，但你和任何人(或物)都沒有特別的牽扯，你是抽離在外。你只是靜靜地看著，你是一個旁觀者(witness)。假如你對每一個人都有此種的愛，那麼你將會因此種特質而大大地被祝福。

註一：江瑞凱綜合整理摘譯自Shri Mataji明善輪普祭（Hamsa Puja）的談話1991-04-28. JSM !這是一篇很長的談話，Shri Mataji 逐一談各個輪穴應該有什麼明辨力，譯者將之分成數篇。敬請Sahaja兄弟姊妹指正。

Then comes the Heart Chakra. We talk of love. We talk of this. We talk of that. I mean, so much of talk of love in the West, which is never in India. But there isn’t any love. It is such a love for money, love for positions, but there is no pure love, Nirvaj. There’s no love like that.

So the discretion between your family and others’ family is to be seen. Very clearly, you will know that you are doing something wrong. This is more in India than here, abroad.

A couple will stay back. One by one they’ll come. All right, couples are all right. But they’ll not bring their uncles, aunties, their aunties’ parents, their parents, and then the grandparents and all that.

Together they will come in one line. They will always be grouped together. All of them will be on My head. I have seen.

There’s no discretion there, that we are individuals as far as Mother is concerned. She is our Mother. She’s our Guru and we have to face Her individually, not to take all this paraphernalia with us: all our relations, my brothers or my sisters or my this and that. So the discretion as far as the guru is concerned, is an extremely important thing in Sahaja Yoga.

It is.. You want Me to explain to you how the gravity acts through Nabhi. No doubt. But through your Heart Chakra, if you gravitate at people, or sort of what you call, the charisma of a person or some sort of a nonsense, or the charmingness of a person, that means you’re attracted towards something that is extremely superficial and not at something which has gravity in it. So, the discretion at the Heart is to have a relationship which is so detached that you nourish everything, every part of your family.

Now somebody’s attached to the husband, somebody’s attached to children, somebody’s attached to the dogs, somebody’s attached to the, only to the plants. Is very indiscreet.

You should be attached to everything the same, same way. I would say that you should be so detached that you are attached to everyone equally. Detachment doesn’t mean that you wear dresses or scantily. It doesn’t mean that. It’s a wrong idea. Detachment means that you watch everything, and you do not get involved with anyone. You are out of it, and you are seeing everything, watching it, you’re a witness. This sort of love if you have for anyone, you will be blessed by that personality very much more.

明辨力與臍輪(Nabhi Chakra)(之三)

----明辨力與臍輪(Nabhi Chakra)(之三)----

就左臍輪而言，婦女必須是一個古哈拉希什米(Gruha Lakshmi)，而丈夫必須像一個真正的丈夫，而不是羅蜜歐。丈夫必須注意太太的行為，必要時要糾正她，這是丈夫的職責，不可以逃避。做為一個古哈拉希什米的婦女，她應該知道她有一個重大的責任-----創造一個非常偉大的霎哈嘉社會。她並不是一個普通的婦女，因為過去是少有婦女得到自覺的。但是在霎哈嘉裏，你會發現少有婦女是真正了悟到此責任，大部份人是處在一種昏沈的狀態。許多事情她們都不知道，(甚至)她們也不知道厨房的事。有時候我同她們講話，感覺她們好像吃了什麼(迷幻)藥似的，腦袋似乎是空空的。我覺得好像我自己來做反而比較省事，因為她們的覺醒之心(alertness, 註一)都不見了。她們把原有經右脈的覺醒之心都浪費在没有意義的事物上(譯者：指衣服、流行、肥皂劇等)，注意力都浪費掉了！這就是爲什麼家庭主婦喪失了基本的明辨力，以致於她們不知道她們必須要極端有警覺、敏鋭與有智慧。
假如妳没有這基本的覺醒之心，那妳無法當一個古哈拉希什米，妳無法是一個好媽媽、好妻子。我並非說婦女要當一個(服務家人的)女奴，但是(今天許多)婦女連這些基本的事都不知道，例如：如何創造一個祥和的家庭、如何使丈夫高興(註二)、什麼時候該說什麼、何時應說好聽的話、何時要嚴格一些.......。這些該有的明辨力都不見了，不論她是一個潑婦或小女人都是如此。
霎哈嘉的婦女應該保持覺醒之心、有智慧，且知道生活中的大小事情。但是許多人却連輪穴在腳的位置都不知道，也不清楚靈量如何穿越輪穴、靈量在做什麼等等。靈量本身是一個女性的力量，你是她的小孩，她知道你的每一個細節。但是許多媽媽却連她的小孩是否吸毒都不知道，也搞不清楚她的小孩(在外)的行為是如何。往往除了打小孩及寵小孩之外，什麼都不會做。假如(霎哈嘉的)媽媽有明辨力，她們是可以把這些特殊的小孩(譯者：指生來就自覺的小孩)變成偉大的人物。這是我對這些小孩的遠景與期待。但是假如這些媽媽沒有明辨力，她們是會徹底毁掉這些小孩。
(婦女的)明善輪的完善是非常重要的，如此我們才能創造出一個美麗的家、一個祥和的家，不只爲了家庭的成員，也為了來到這個家的其他霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹。

右臍輪是羅闍拉希什米(Raja Lakshmi)，即妻子必須像個王后，丈夫必須像個國王。此處的明辨力是：你的行事為人是否有尊嚴(dignified)。對丈夫而言，他必須尊重他的妻子，否則他不是一個霎哈嘉瑜伽士。尊重是不同於(西方)所謂的羅曼蒂克，那不叫尊重。尊重妻子在霎哈嘉是非常重要，當妻子不被尊重時，孩子也不會尊敬他們的媽媽，而正是這個媽媽要負責來照顧這些孩子，所以你可以知道不尊重妻子是何等沒有明辨力的行為。

在臍輪最没有明辨力的行為可以說是：沒有聽從你的導師。聽從你的導師是如同服從至高的上帝。導師所說的，你要當成一種祝福來接受，當成一種對你的糾正來遵循。但是我說了數百次，仍然有許多練習者無法聽進去，他們依然遵循原有的常規或社會流行所告訴他們的。我對你們有這麼多的談話，是為了告訴你們什麼是重要的，你們應該敞開你們的心(來聽)，對你們的導師完全順服，如此你們才可能成長。除此之外，別無他途。
你們應該有這個明辨力：導師就是大梵(Parabrahma)。我説的每一個字，你應該記錄下來，這是為了你的好處，也是為了全世界的好處。遵循我所講的，你才不會喪失你(昇進)的機會，這世界也不會失去(往上的)契機。

註一：alertness 是指一種警覺的狀態，而不是渾渾噩噩、什麼都不知道。

註二：Shri Mataji 常說聰慧的妻子是很清楚知道丈夫喜歡什麼，如何讓丈夫高興更是輕而易舉的事。

註三：江瑞凱綜合整理摘譯自Shri Mataji明善輪普祭（Hamsa Puja）的談話1991-04-28. JSM !這是一篇很長的談話，Shri Mataji 逐一談各個輪穴應該有什麼明辨力，譯者將之分成數篇。敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹指正。

註四：此篇Shri Mataji針對女瑜伽士談比較多，有人可能覺得Shri Mataji講得頗為嚴厲。其實母親一直認為她的偉大遠景-----創造一個偉大的霎哈嘉社會，主要是要靠女瑜伽士。母親其實談到女瑜伽士時，一直都這麼嚴厲，且一再重複談到此課題，有點恨鐵不成鋼的味道，此篇絕非特例！

Then we come to the Nabhi Chakra. In Nabhi Chakra also we do not understand that eating is not such an important thing. Doesn’t matter if you don’t eat your food today, what does it matter? It’s very important, you know!

In Puna we had a Puja, and we had Western children sitting there in the Puja, and there were Indian children also. As usual Puja is always late, but it was in the evening, Sankrant Puja.

So the children, Western children, got up at eight o’clock, whether it was Puja or anything, and all marched out for their dinner. It looked very bad. Indians couldn’t understand, how can that be? But they had to have their dinner at eight. Supposing they don’t eat their food at eight o’clock, what will happen, will they die?

So in a way, we restrict children also by our own conditionings, and also we allow them to behave in a manner that they, as if they are very grown up, matured people. We are so enamored by our children, as if to get children is something great. Anybody can have children, what’s so great about it?

You have to look after your children. It’s all right. But it doesn’t mean that you should all the time dote upon them, think about them, worry about them, and nobody else.

So, if you have to enter into the limbic area which is the Virata’s place, which is the, I would say, from Visshuddhi to Hamsa and then to your limbic area, into the Virata, then your interest must expand. So the other discretion should be that: “Am I only thinking of my child? Am I only thinking of my wife? Am I only thinking about them, or I am worried about others’ children also? I’m thinking about others’ children?”

I just tell you this because it’s such a funny type of a concern we have, and you destroy your children also, by this kind of a indiscreet concern.

Like we had a school in India, and the children stayed in Puna. I had My Puja. I told them: “Don’t bring children”, because I knew these children are Western children, not easy, they can’t bear anything.

But the children insisted, and the teachers had to bring them. So the Puja was over as usual, very late, about I think eleven o’clock in the night, and there was no transport, and that’s why I said: “Don’t bring them.”

So they had to get some sort of a truck, because these days we were not getting petrol, we had been having a very bad time. So they had to go on the truck. It reached there by about two o’clock. Some of the fathers were staying in My house. Next day they said: “Mother, our right heart is catching.”

I said: “What is that?”

“Such cruelty!”

I said: “What cruelty?”

“The children reached at two o’clock in the school.”

So what? Right heart is catching! What attachments! Your children, if they reach at two o’clock, what does it matter? Why are you so much concerned about it? They are realized souls, there is God who is looking after them. Why are you so much worried about them? Leave them alone.

They send them to India School. Then the mothers are sitting there. Teachers don’t like it. No-one likes it. They have just gone there, mothers. No school allows such a nonsense. But in Sahaja Yoga they think they have a right. What right have they got? Have they paid for the school, have they done anything for the school? What right have they got to go and sit in the school? So the discretion should be, we have to bring up our children according to Sahaj culture.

The first of the principles of Sahaja Yoga is fortitude. Sahaja Yoga is not meant for such dainty darlings. You have to be soldiers of Sahaja Yoga. Your children have to be the soldiers of Sahaja Yoga, not the dainty darlings. It’s not meant for them. Though they are born realized, you are ruining them by making them dainty darlings. You have to rough it out. You have to make them sturdy. You have to give them self-respect. You have to give them dignity and a fortitude, forbearance.

So this left Nabhi, right Nabhi, specially the left Nabhi, is a very big problem, where the woman has to be a Gruha Lakshmi and husband has not to be a Romeo, but a husband.

He has to see how his wife behaves. Correct her – that is his job, his duty. He should not shirk it.

Gruha Lakshmi is the woman who should know that she has the great responsibility of creating a very great society of Sahaja Yoga. She’s not an ordinary woman. How many women got their realization before?

But in Sahaja Yoga if you find the ladies, you hardly find very few who are really alert. Most of them are in trance condition. They don’t know anything. They don’t know anything. They don’t know much of cooking, you ask them anything, they don’t know anything.

You talk to them, you feel as if they have taken some sort of a drug. Nothing goes into their heads. Sometimes one feels, it’s better I do it Myself, impossible. The alertness is gone, because alertness that comes through your right side is wasted on nonsensical things. Attention is wasted on nonsensical things, that’s why the housewives have lost that discretion to know that they have to be extremely alert and sensible and wise.

They should know each and everything. It’s not so. They just live in the air, somewhere hanging, you know. You don’t know what to say to them, how to ask for anything. How to explain anything to them – is an impossible situation. So that alertness has to be there in a housewife. It’s extremely important.

So we have Fatima at a young age. She had these two sweet children who died in the war in Karbala. What a brave woman, the way she established the Shia system. Her husband also died, and she did all that on her own. Living behind the purdah, living behind the walls, she managed everything. We have had many such queens in our country. There was a seventeen-year-old widow, who was the daughter-in-law of Shivaji; she fought with Aurangzeb and defeated him, in our country: Tara Bai. So many of them we have.

But if you do not have the alertness, then you cannot be a Gruha Lakshmi, you cannot be a good mother, you cannot be a good wife. There’s no slavery in it. They don’t know even what pleases their husbands, how to create peace in the family, what to say, when to say beautiful things and when to be strict. All this discretion is not there. Either they are shrews or they are slaves.

So, Sahaja Yoga is meant for women who are alert, who are wise, who know everything about life. Even they don’t know, where are the chakras on the feet. Look at your Mother. She’s a woman. She knows so much. They don’t know anything as to how Kundalini passes through these centers, what it does, what She is capable of.

But the Kundalini itself is the feminine Power. She knows each and everything about you, about Her child. Many mothers don’t know if the child is taking drugs, or is behaving which way. Except for spoiling or beating, there’s nothing in between. With discretion, the mothers can make these special children into something. That is My vision about them. But with their indiscretion they can ruin these children completely.

This is so important, that our Hamsa should be all right, that we should be able to create a beautiful home, a peaceful home – not only for our family, but for all the other Sahaja Yogis who come to our house. I don’t know how it has come into the brains of Indian women, I don’t know how, but if you have to please them you have to just say: “Sister-in-law, will you cook this for me tomorrow?”. That’s it.

Or if you say: “I am coming for dinner or lunch”, that’s the best. They are very much pleased. “Oh!” Just they’ll start thinking: “Oh, what am I going to cook, what does he like?”

They know about each and every person, what he likes. It’s not slavishness. If you want to please someone it’s not slavishness. The whole nature is there to please us. Is it a slavish thing to do?

But the another side of a woman is she’s a Raja Lakshmi, and the man who is the king. The discretion at that point is: are you dignified or not? We went to Japan once, and they were treating us with great respect, even in a village. First we entered a shop because it was raining, so the villagers actually bowed to us. We didn’t understand what’s happening. And they, they gave us presents. So we asked ultimately, then, the interpreter: “Why are they so humble before us?” They said: “Because you belong to royal family.” I said: “No, we don’t belong to royal family. How would they know?”.

“No. Because your hair are neat, your daughters’ hair are neat and shiny. And you don’t go to hairdressers.”

“I mean – I said – is it a sign, is it a sign of royal family?”

“Yes, that’s how the royal family is. They don’t put their head into the hands of somebody else.”

We were amazed. Imagine the Japanese thinking like that!

So the discretion is that you have to be like a queen and the husband has to be like a king. But not like the king who killed his seven wives, but like a king who respects his wife.

If you cannot respect your wife, you cannot be a Sahaja Yogi. Respect is different from being romantically in love. I think that you don’t respect. To respect your wife is a very important thing in Sahaja Yoga.

For this, I would say the Indians are not so good, but also I know some of the Western people are also quite funny. Your dignity is reduced if you cannot respect your wife. Indians, especially in the North India, not in the South, they lack this, to respect their wives.

Also, they lack the discretion that a wife, if she is not respected, the children will not be respectful to her and she is in charge of the children.

But the most indiscreet thing about Nabhi is that you don’t listen to your Guru.

Hundred times you tell something to Sahaja Yogis, but still they will not listen to Me.

Still, they will do as the fashion tells them or the norms that they have.

Listening to your Guru, as they say, as if is to obey the God Almighty. Whatever is said is to be accepted as a great blessing, as a great correction and is to be followed, not to be just left out as it is.

As you know, your Mother is your Guru and She is your Mother. Also She’s Mahamaya. Also She’s Adi Shakti. And She’s so gentle and She’s so kind. She says some things to you to correct you. So many lectures I’ve given, of telling you what is important. But you should open your heart and surrender it fully to your Guru, then only you’ll mature, otherwise there is no way out, I’m sorry to say.

I do not like anybody surrendering to Me or touching My Feet or falling at Me. I, I, I don’t understand that. I mean, I’m not conscious of it, not aware of it. It makes no difference to Me. Even when you sing My Jai, I think that you are singing some Mataji Nirmala Devi’s Jai, in the third person, and sometimes I’m afraid I might say “Jai” with you. When you are singing “Swagata Agat” I always think there’s some Mataji Nirmala Devi “Swagat” song they are singing – somebody else.

But for your goodness, for your ascent for which you have come here: you have not come here just to waste your time, but to ascend, and for that it is important that whatever I am saying, you have to obey implicitly.

But I never say a thing which will be uncomfortable for you. I never say: “You don’t take your food” or “Don’t drink water” – nothing of the kind. But, out of laziness, people just don’t do many things; or, if not laziness, then just they do not know how important it is. Or else they feel nervous.

So the discretion is that Guru is Parabrahma – any guru, Satguru.

But what about the Parabrahma Itself, which is your Guru? I do not say things as hearty [maybe this may be “hardly”?] as the gurus used to do it. I mean, if you read about them you’ll be shocked. But whatever I say, every word, you must note, is for your benevolence and for the benevolence of the whole world. And, by not obeying that, you are not only spoiling your own chances, but the chances of the whole world. So you understand how important it is if you are the disciple, if you are blessed by your Guru.

All these things are written about them, but I say not only that you are My disciples, but you have got your realization, you are Sahaja Yogis. You got all the powers. You know each and everything. You are so special people.

For such people there should not be any difference of opinion, because you know the same thing all the time, so there cannot be any fight, there cannot be any quarrel, there cannot be any argument.

But the discretion should be that our Guru is a Mother. She’s very mild. She’s very gentle. She’s very kind. I know that.

One day, My brother told Me, that: “What sort of a Guru You are? When my guru was teaching me tabla, he used to break the tampura on my head, and even one percussion I would make wrong, he would bring his hammer: ‘And now I’m going to break your nails!’

I said: “There’s no need to do all this. Not necessary in Sahaja Yoga, because they are self-disciplined people.”

So there has to be the self-disciplination, as you can so call it, on the Hamsa Chakra, which is the one which knows what is right, what is wrong, through which we work it out; whatever is the right – that’s all we do. Otherwise we don’t do whatever is wrong.

明辨力與腹輪的創造力(之二)

----明辨力與腹輪的創造力(之二)----

在不應該用頭腦與思維的時候，人們却是常用頭腦。這種情形也發生在腹輪(Swadisthana Chakra)。腹輪是主管創造力(creativity)，每一個人都可以創造出一個美麗的設計圖或圖案，可以創造出一件藝術品。但是假如你用思維去想：一件藝術品需符合那些條件、需有那些特點等等，那麼你的創造力就完蛋了！在西方世界，人們對藝術(品)有太多的討論與批評，正是這些批評扼殺了藝術家的創造力。一旦社會上有太多的藝術評論家，則藝術家的創作就不是源自他們内心自然而生的創意。他們會去想：假如我這麼畫、這麼創作，那麼評論家會怎麼說？一旦如此，整個自然、自發的創造力就喪失了。評論家常說："這裏不對，那裏不像一個藝術品。一幅畫應該如此如此。"，這些評論讓藝術家再也無法自然地發揮其創造力。大家應該讓藝術家去創作他們想創作的，不要去批評。當我們看到一個來自任何地方的藝術品，做爲一個霎哈嘉瑜伽士，你就只需要去看、靜靜地欣賞，如此這藝術品就會全然地向你展現出這藝術家所要表達的。

藝術評論家却是用頭腦在看藝術品，例如有人在畫布上畫一條線，評論家說："這是藝術！"，這不是很荒謬嗎？一條線算是什麼藝術品呢？評論家會接著解釋說："這表示一個孤獨的人站在那裏，等等等。"，這不是很可笑嗎？畫應該是讓你自然地去欣賞，而不是如此地用頭腦來描述、來解釋！當這些評論家在批評時，他們的心智都處在非常警覺的狀態，他們總是根據一些標準來看這些藝術品，嘗試把這些標準加到原本是自然、無所拘束的藝術上面。這會造成人變得不自然、十分做作(artificial)，因為這些都是人的思維創造出來的，是人造的(man-made)。在這人造之中，所有屬於自然的、自發的特質(spontaneity)都喪失了。

同樣地，這也發生在其他領域，例如受這些希臘悲劇的影響，即羅蜜歐與茱莉葉的浪漫愛情，這些皆是想像出來的，完全不是自然的，但它跑到人的腦袋裡，使人以為男女之間的愛情，或夫妻間的關係就應該如此浪漫做作。好像先生每天都要送花給妻子，把妻子當成一個重要人物一樣。在這些想像的做作影響之下，夫妻之間那種自然的感情就消失殆盡。丈夫本來就是馬車右邊的輪子，妻子是左邊的輪子，兩個人都應依照他們本來應該扮演的角色、本來的天性與特質來行事，如此的夫妻關係才會是最符合自然、最完美的。

註一：此篇Shri Mataji 從藝術談起，談什麼才是自然流露的創造力，什麼又是人為做作。這個話題也是Shri Mataji 在許多談話中常提到的，此次談話講得最詳細。由於像閒聊式的講話，所以譯者採意譯的方式，希望能有助於讀者抓住精義。Shri  Mataji 所闡釋的很類似老子所講的自然之道。其實Shri Mataji更希望我們了解其中的精義，如此在其他的領域，就可以用我們的明辨力來知道如何行事才是符合自然之道。譯者：腹輪是一切行動、創造力的起點，這些行動最重要就是要符合自然之道，這是我們的明辨力在行動時首先需要關注的。

註二：江瑞凱綜合整理摘譯自Shri Mataji明善輪普祭（Hamsa Puja）的談話1991-04-28. JSM !這是一篇很長的談話，Shri Mataji 逐一談各個輪穴應該有什麼明辨力。譯者將之分成數篇。敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

Same about the Swadisthana Chakra. Swadisthana is for creativity. Anything you can create. You can create a sari.

You can create a beautiful design, pattern. You can create a beautiful art or anything, but as soon as you put it on a mental level, it’s finished. Also in the West, too much discussion is about the art. This is not art, that is not art. This should have been like this, that should have been like this. I mean, it’s creativity, spontaneous.

Whatever the artist wants to produce, let him produce, and who are you to judge and criticize?

You cannot appreciate anything unless and until it is brought to the mental level.

So now, we have critics, and the artists are not spontaneous, they’re afraid; they only think: “What will the critics say?” Even when I’m writing the book, when I give it to some Sahaja Yogis to read, they say: “Mother, if You write it like this, then they’ll say like this.” I said: “Let them say, who cares?”

So then, critics should criticize and say: “This is not all right. This is not an art because this is such, this is such”.

So the artists are finishing, art is finishing. Now what is left are critics.

So now they don’t know what to do with their profession, so they are criticizing each other.

So we have only critics criticizing each other.

But there’s no art now. What to criticize? And art has to be now made into money. So the critics must certify. It’s so man-oriented, the whole programming of these critics is, that it is never an art.

You know, they draw one line and say: “Now this is art, all right”. If the critics say it’s art you had better accept, it is an art.

Now, what is so artistic about a line?

Then again mental: “It’s a lonely person standing there” – this, that.

It should be spontaneous! Why to describe an art?

So the mental level is so alert and is all the time trying to see things according to certain norms. All these norms are created about something so spontaneous like sex, like art. All bathroom culture is decided by the brain. Nothing is spontaneous. It’s such a joke, I tell you!

So people become artificial. Art becomes artificial. Your Mooladhara becomes artificial. Because it’s all now man-made. All the spontaneity is lost.

If you see any art from any country, just watch. Why must you react to it?

Just watch, as Sahaja Yogis you should just watch and the whole thing will start flowing through.

Now this Greek tragedy of romanticism, then the romance of Romeo and Juliet, all is imaginary, is all mental. There’s no spontaneity in it. And then you accept, accept only relationships when there is artificiality – even between husband and wife. Like the husband must bring a flower every day to the wife, show her a flower, as if she’s a priest or something.

And the wife must – I don’t know what they do – all artificialities. And then he must say “Thank you” ten times to her, and she must say “Sorry” to him a hundred times. I mean they’re husband and wife, left and right side of a chariot! And then the men expect this should happen. Women expect this should happen.

Men expect the women should be like men, and women expect women, men should be like women.

Men are very particular about time, women are not. So women must be very particular about time, otherwise they think she is the worst person they have ever known.

The woman is, say, more particular about her kitchen or maybe about her dress. So the man would get angry with her because she takes too much time to get ready. It’s mutually so indiscreet that the relationship becomes absolutely absurd.

There should be understanding that she is the left side and you are the right side, and both of you have to act according to your nature.

On the contrary, you want to make somebody look so funny, because imagine a man becoming a woman and a woman becoming a man. You see it’s a joke, but that’s what has happened.

Whatever the men are supposed to do they cannot do and whatever women are supposed to do they cannot do. Whatever the children are supposed to do they do not do.

For example, children in the West will go on asking: “Why?” Who are they to ask “Why?” What is their growth? What is their intelligence? What is their maturity? They cannot be treated like a judge sitting in the court. They are children!

But when they come to Sahaja Yoga they lose their discretion. First, before coming to Sahaja Yoga, the husband and wife quarrel all the time. Half steps are in the courts and half outside. After Sahaja Yoga they cling to each other, so much like glued together, it’s impossible.

So much so that for the wife’s sake they will leave Sahaja Yoga. They’ll ruin each other like that. They’re glued together.

Before Sahaja Yoga they neglect their children, don’t bother. After Sahaja Yoga they’re glued to their children. Then nobody can say a word against the child. The child can go and hit anyone, you cannot say any word.

They’ll ruin the child also. So the discretion is lost completely in relationships, whether it is sex, whether it is creativity, whether it is family, anything.

That’s the part of the Hamsa Chakra.

明辨力與根輪(之一)

----明辨力與根輪(之一)----

你們都知道明善輪(Hamsa Chakra)給你明辨力(discretion)，但是你們並不了解明辨力是什麼。
在我們的內在，第一個也是最重要的輪穴是根輪(Mooladara)，假如人對根輪没有適當的明辨力，那麼人會變得迷惘，也可能打開了通往地獄之門。

你們知道只有左脈(Ida Nadi)是從根輪開始，左脈是代表內在的一種願望(desire，也包括渴望、欲望)的力量，這力量是從根輪開始。這願望並不是一種心智的(mental)活動(譯者：即指需用腦袋思考。舉例：對愛的渴望並非要用腦袋思考後才會有)，心智的活動是屬於右脈(Pingala Nadi)，右脈並非從根輪開始，而是從更上面的輪穴開始(譯者：指腹輪)。所以你們必須知道根輪 (譯者：指根輪所掌管的活動，根輪主管排泄及性功能，Shri  Mataji 此處指"性")並無法被我們的心智活動所控制。假如你把這些根輪所掌管的活動(譯者：Shri  Mataji 此處指"性")移轉成心智的活動，那麼你可能失去對根輪(譯者：即指性功能)的掌控。在西方世界，根輪(譯者：此處指性)完全變成心智活動，它被大量地談論、討論，甚至被詳細地描述、書寫在書本，且大量被閲讀。換言之，大量被塞進人的腦袋裡，即性變成一種心智活動，以致於根輪(譯者：指性功能)無法照它原來的設計本能地、自發地(spontaneous)進行。這就為什麼(現代)有這麼多人無法生小孩，許多人年紀輕輕即有陽萎的問題。因為他們把它當成一種(右脈的)心智活動，而不是使用欲望的力量。以油燈來比喻，油燈是靠油及燈芯來產生燃燒及火光。假如你用水取代油，油燈就無法燃燒，因為水無法燃燒產生光，所以假如你在性這件事用太多的頭腦(即用太多的心智)，那你的根輪會被毀壞掉，而變成無法控制(性功能)。假如你把這件事留給欲望，那它就會本能地、自然地來發生。這個很根本的原理是西方思想中所欠缺的，他們把本能的、會自動發生的當成一種心智活動來進行。

在你必須使用心智活動的地方(即右脈的活動)，你就必須使用心智活動(即右脈)；在欲望及情感的領域，你就必須使用你的願望的力量。當然這種事(譯者：指性)本身是本能、自動地發生，所以不應該變成一種過度的迷戀。凡是過度的迷戀就不再是自然與本能。這只是一種在某個時刻你有這種欲念，如此而已。假如所有的時間你的腦袋都在想這件事，那麼就猶如想用水來產生出火光！

註一：江瑞凱綜合整理摘譯自Shri Mataji明善輪普祭（Hamsa Puja）的談話1991-04-28. JSM !這是一篇很長的談話，Shri Mataji 逐一談各個輪穴應該有什麼明辨力。譯者將之分成數篇。敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

You all know that Hamsa Chakra gives you discretion, but still we do not understand, what do we mean by discretion?

The first and the foremost important center within us is the Mooladhara Chakra. If we do not have the proper discretion about Mooladhara Chakra, we get into wilderness, I should say, or we open the doors of hell for ourselves.

As you know, that only the Ida Nadi starts from the Mooladhara. That means, it’s the desire, power of desire within us, starts from Mooladhara.

But it’s not the mental, which is the Pingala Nadi, which starts from Mooladhara. It starts higher. ........

So one thing one has to know, that Mooladhara Chakra cannot be controlled by our mental activity. But if you shift it to the mental activity then the control over Mooladhara is completely lost.

Apart from whatever has happened in the West, Mooladhara Chakra is all gone into the mental activity of human beings. It is so much discussed, talked. It is so much described, written down, so much read, so much put into our heads, that it has become a mental activity. So, Mooladhara doesn’t act spontaneously as it has to act.

That’s why there are problems that people cannot produce children. So many become impotent very early because it is used not by the power of desire, but by mental activity – is shifted.

Now you see the light here, is burning there because there is oil and there is a wick, it is burning. But instead of this oil, you put just water. Will it burn? It won’t. Because water is not going to nourish this light. So, the more mental activity you have, your Mooladhara gets spoilt and it becomes uncontrollable. But if it is left to your desire, so it becomes spontaneous. This is a fundamental principle that is missing in the Western thinking, I think – that whatever is spontaneous, they leave it to the mental activity.

Wherever the mental activity is to be used, you should use mental activity and wherever your desire and emotions are to be used, you must use your desire power.

Also, it is spontaneous, though it should not be an obsession. Any obsession cannot be spontaneous.

It’s just, at a moment, you have the desire. That’s all. But all the time if there sits in your mind, that means you are using water to have the fire.