不要當一個平庸的瑜伽士

---不要當一個平庸的瑜伽士---

你們也可以去讀其他(非霎哈嘉)的書，奥地利的練習者在這方面做得很好。他們目前在研究可蘭經，他們去了解可蘭經及聖經在講什麼，那些内容有問題？是誰編篡聖經？為什麼那些錯誤的内容會被放入聖經？等等.......。霎哈嘉的練習者必須像學者一樣，且是真正讀書的學者。

你們不應該是平庸的人，無論你從事什麼職業，你就應該成為這方面的專家，而不是一個平凡普通的人。假如你在你的工作領域只是一個平庸者，那麼你這個霎哈嘉練習者有什麼特殊呢？你們都可以有非凡的表現，因為你們都有能力做到，因為你們(的内在)都已被喚醒了。你有許多的能量流向你，你越常使用這個能量，你就獲得越多的能量，那麼爲什麼不在工作上表現得更好呢？

在霎哈嘉的領域也一樣，你們要讀更多的書，必須去了解這些知識，你們應該有一些擁有足夠的霎哈嘉知識的知識份子，可以向外人解釋霎哈嘉，若只有一二人可以說明解釋霎哈嘉，而其他人都不行，那並不恰當。

在霎哈嘉裏變成基本教義派固然是不對，但是成為不成長、安靜不動的團體也是不對的。我們固然在霎哈嘉裏享受，但我們也必須成長。我們必須學更多、了解更多、思考更多。有許多事要去做，譬如你們有多少人天天看報紙呢？每一個人都必須看報紙，了解世界各地發生的各種問題。你的注意力放在任何一個地方，那裏的問題就會獲得解決。這就爲什麼我看報紙，注意現在以色列發生了什麼事等等。

同樣地你也應該好好準備，你應該知道各地發生了什麼事。但不用去讀那些醜聞的報導，那些是没有任何意義的。而是要去讀一些實際的東西，看報紙主筆室(編輯室)的評論、社論及專家評論等等。此外，你們也需要讀書，我們需要一些所謂的知識分子，能面對外在的世界，告訴他們什麼是霎哈嘉。但是不要因為有一些知識就去炫耀，有些人就是有此種習慣------喜歡上台去炫耀他們知道這個、知道那個。不是這樣的，而是要在你自己的内在有一層更深的了解。所有你在書上看到的、學到，你必須將之轉化成霎哈嘉的形式，以霎哈嘉的方式表達出來，或從霎哈嘉的觀點來看這些。在中心(ashram)你們應該有一些書(譯者：由前後文看，很明顯並非指霎哈嘉的書而已)，你們應該要讀書，並彼此間來共同討論這些書。

註一：關於多讀書，另有一篇相關的譯文: "學習所有霎哈嘉瑜伽的知識" (  http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/sahajayoga-shri-ganesha-sahaja-yoga.html  )。而本文是更進一步提到要研究霎哈嘉之外有用的書。

註二： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 的談話1992-02-27. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

Also you can read books, why not now? That way Austrians are very, very much there. You see, they meditate very – every day they meditate in the morning time, and I have seen they are the ones who are producing lots of good results. Like, they’re finding out books, you see, about this Koran now. They are reading Koran, finding out what’s in Koran and Bible, this, that, they are trying to find out what’s wrong with this; who edited Bible, why this wrong thing was put there, and they use Me as a model. I would never say such some things, that how could Christ say that? But that’s how they are just trying to read books; and we have to be scholars, we have to be real scholars, read books; and it’s not that you should be mediocre people.

We must also, whatever we are doing, so for example, we had Pat there who came out of the drugs and all that. I said: “Pat, you must get to something, seriously.” Then he took to plumbing and other things. I said: “Go to the end of it, you should be masters of this. You must have masterly knowledge about these things.” I would encourage you as much as possible that you should not just be a mediocre, there should be no mediocrisy . You must read more books, you must understand, you should have intellectuals who can explain Sahaja Yoga. Only one or two people can talk about Sahaja Yoga, the rest of them cannot. It’s not proper.

So open out yourself. All the time if you have fear that whether we’ll be in Sahaja Yoga or not, you might be thrown away, then you will never prosper. You should have no fears. So there are so many books you can read, find out from other books, find out from other things; and grow, you have to grow in that is. In anything you do, I was telling that if you are doing say art work or paintings or anything, so you have to become masters in that. Just mediocrisy, is something you do, what is there so special? You all can shoot into a very higher atmosphere because you have powers to do that. You can do it, because you have got the awakening, you have got all the powers flowing into you. The more you’ll use, the more you’ll get it. So why not do it?

So it’s a wrong idea. So we’ll have not only the fundamentalism, but also a static society, which doesn’t grow. So we are enjoying, but we have to grow, we have to learn more, we have to understand more, think more. There are so many things to be done, I mean. How many of you read newspapers, now raise your hands, let’s see? Everybody must read newspaper and discuss the world problems. You know, what you think will work out. Discuss what’s going on. You must read newspapers and understand what are the world problems today, what’s happening where. Wherever your attention would be it will work out, it works out. That’s why I read, you see, what’s happening now in Israel, and what’s happening with Mr. Baker there, all of them.

So you see, in the same way you should be well-equipped, you should know everything about what’s happening where, what is what. Don’t read scandals, that has no meaning, but read something substantial, their editorials and things like that. Also you should get hold of books. We really need intellectuals who will really face tomorrow’s world to tell them what is Sahaja Yoga. But not to show off. Some people have a habit of showing off they have this knowledge, they have that knowledge, just jump on the stage. Not that. But it’s a deep understanding within yourself. You must try to have deep understanding within yourself, whatever you are knowing. Now, you have to bring it to the pattern of Sahaja Yoga, what these people are saying, all right, this is the pattern of Sahaja Yoga.

Also in this Shiv Puja I’ll tell you certain tricks about it. But whatever it is, you must take to writing, you must have books here in every ashram, you must have books, you must have reading, you must discuss among yourselves and talk.