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.