人不可能了解上帝

----人不可能了解上帝----

你們是無法了解上帝(God)，你們必須理解這一點，那即是：了解上帝是不可能的(註一)！但你是可以和上帝有聯結，你可以同上帝為伴，你可以被上帝祝福，你可以蒙上帝照顧，你可以知道許多有關上帝的事，但你不可能了解祂。

同樣地，你不可能知道為什麼上帝做此事，爲什麼做那事，你無法理解，你也無法解釋它。有些人甚至會問："為什麼上帝創造Swastika(卐)？"、"為什麼祂創造Omkara(即Aum，符號為ॐ )？"。有些人甚至如此地自大而問上帝："爲什麼祢存在呢？"，人就是會超越界限到如此難以想像的地步。人類的自大與自我造成人無法認識上帝，人們想的都是自己，又很固執己見，但又不知道自己是如此。

是太初的力量(Shakti)給你自覺(Self-realization)，甚至更進一步給你神的自覺(God-realisation)，但是依然你無法了解上帝。除非你在上帝之上，你才可以了解上帝。

人們是從源頭(Source)而來，人是無法了解這源頭，人們是無法去評論它，也無法去問為什麼。不管上帝做什麼，這是上帝的期望、上帝的願望。人們必須接受的是：無論上帝的願望是什麼，我們都很樂意去接受。

註一：這是Shri Mataji常提到的一個觀念。

註二： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在Navaratri Puja的談話1992-09-27. JSM ! 敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

So you can’t understand, you can’t understand God. Please understand one thing, that for to understand God is an impossibility. But you can be in connection with God, you can be in the company of God, you can be blessed by God, you can be looked after by God, you can know lots of things about God; but you cannot understand.

This is another thing one has to know, that you cannot understand why God does these things, why He does this, why He does that. You cannot understand, you cannot explain it. I mean, somebody can even say here, “Why did He make swastika?” Then, “Why did He make Omkara?” I mean here the people are so arrogant that they can even ask God, “Why did You exist?” They can go to that limit, you know, there’s nothing surprising. So this arrogance, this ego has blinded us from God. We think no end of ourselves, we are very self-opinionated, and we do not know much about it.

So this Power, this Shakti is the one which has given you Self-realization, will also give you God-realization; but still you will not understand God. You have to go above God to understand Him. How will you understand? Supposing there’s something below you, you can understand; but something above you, how will you understand? Supposing somebody is down below in Cabella and wants to understand about My house, will he understand? He has to go above the Cabella to see My house.

So the Source from which we have come, we cannot understand that. We cannot judge, we cannot say why; that is God’s wish, God’s desire, whatever He does. So what we have to say: whatever His wish, we’ll be happy with that.

石頭、動物、原始人與知識的禁果

----石頭、動物、原始人與知識的禁果----

我們可以說石頭是單純、純真的(innocent)，除非你去打石頭，你才會感覺到石頭打你，否則它不會上前來打你。石頭是純真的，河流也是，所有被創造的物質(matter, 譯者：指被創造的東西)都是純真的，它們不會奸詐狡猾(cunning)，它們也不會操縱(manipulating)，也不會有攻擊性(aggressive)，這些都不是它們的屬性。

我說它們是純真的，指的是它們都在全能上帝(God Almighty)的控制之下，它們没有自己的自由意志(free will)去做它們想要的。它們所做的一切完全是來自上帝的指揮和命令，所以它們是純真的。

至於動物，它們也是如此，除了少數之外，大多數的動物皆是。這就為什麽它們被稱為"pashu"，這意思是：它們完全在全能上帝的控制之下。一隻老虎的行為就會像老虎，蛇就像蛇；但是人類就不一樣，有些人的行為會像老虎，明天他可能像一條蛇，後天則是一條蟲。人們(可以)没有固定的人格特質，動物則没有自由意志去改變它們個別的特質(individuality)。動物是被放任在那裏，太初之母(Adi Shakti)並不去管它們。它們(自遠古以來)已被創造，它們就是在那裏繼續存在。當然它們的存在是有一個目的，這目的只有一個，即是支持人類(的存在)，因為人類是演化的最高典範(at the epitome of evolution)！

太初之母創造萬事萬物就是為了創造人類，並最終讓人類得到他的自覺(Self-realization)，讓人類了解到他的生命的意義，讓人類聯結到這無所不在的上天大能(All-pervading Power)，讓人類進入上帝的國度(Kingdom of God)。這些都是太初之母的工作。

太初之母以杜伽(Durga)的形象降世九次，都是來殺死那些迫害求道者的惡魔(rakshasas)。第十次的降世則是要給人類自覺，但是因為人類有自由意志，他們不知道為什麼要遵循聽從某人、接受某人，這就是給人類自覺最困難的地方，因為人類不習慣不用自己的自由意志，這在西方世界尤其明顯。人類有太多的自由與選擇，他們的自我(ego)變得很大，他們總是想：我們有權利來為自己做決定！而且無法接受別人來告訴你這樣做是不對的。

我們必須從亞當及夏娃講起，看人類是如何被授予自由意志。
真知派的聖經(Gnostic's Bible)和我講的是一樣。在遠古時代，亞當及夏娃也是"pashus"，即如同動物一般，完全在上帝的控制之下，是没有自由意志。他們不穿衣服住在依甸園，除了吃之外，也不會多想什麼，如同動物一般。然後太初之母以一條靈蛇(serpent)的形象出現，告訴他們："你們必須去吃這個知識的禁果(the fruit of knowledge)，因為她希望他們開始演化。這並不是上帝的主意，上帝不會去做這種頭痛的事，上帝不會認為有必要去製造一些麻煩；但是太初之母有她自己的方式與想法，她知道她有能力來創造奇蹟，她有能力來使人類了解這些知識，並使他們真正擁有這些知識，所以她說："你們必須去吃禁果，你們必須試著去了解這些知識"。新種族的人類就如此誕生，他們會去追求什麼是知識，他們開始從原始人逐步演化、再演化。

在霎哈嘉裏，太初之母實現了她遠古前的承諾，即"你們將可以擁有知識"，如今你們(霎哈嘉瑜伽士)有真正的知識，但你們也應該知道你們可以給予他人這些知識，你們可以轉化這個世界成為一個美麗的新世界，來完成太初之母的遠景。她創造你們，將你們從人類帶到超人類，就是為了這個目的，這也是你們必須去完成的工作。

註一：另有一篇譯文也談及相關的話題："Shri Mataji，大堡礁，人類 "（ http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2016/08/shri-mataji-shri-mataji-kay-great.html ）

註二： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在Navaratri Puja的談話1992-09-27.在1992-10-01的談話，Shri Mataji亦再重述重點一次。JSM ! 敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

Now if you see the stones, they’re innocent. If you hit the stone you’ll get the hit, otherwise it doesn’t come up and hit you. They’re innocent. If you see the rivers, they’re innocent. Everything that has been created as matter is innocent. It is not cunning, it is not manipulating, it is not aggressive – nothing of the kind.

They’re innocent, means they’re under the complete order of God Almighty. They do not have their own free will to do what they like. Whatever is done is with the absolutely under complete command of God Almighty, and so they are, we can say they’re innocent, because they have no free will to do what they like.

So then if you see to animals also, they also are innocent, except for very few. Most of them are innocent, innocent in the sense that they are called as “pashu”– means they are completely under the control, pasha, of God Almighty.

A tiger will behave like a tiger, and a snake will behave like a snake. But in human beings somebody will behave like a tiger, tomorrow like a snake and third day like a worm. There’s no steadiness. For this you cannot say that this gentleman is today tiger, so tomorrow he will not be a snake.

They have no free will to change their individuality. They are left alone. So that is not the job of the Shakti to bother. That’s already been created, they are there, and they are existing. They have a purpose, that’s why they are there; and the purpose is only one, is to support human beings, because you are at the epitome of evolution.

So She has created all these things just for you to be created, and ultimately to get your Self-realization; to have meaning for your life, to get connected to this all-pervading Power, to enter into the Kingdom of God. All is Her work.

So we can say nine times She came, and the tenth time She is supposed to give realization to all of you....................

Is a fact, and that is where human beings fail, because they have a free will, and they don’t know why to obey anyone or why to listen to anyone, and why to accept anyone. That’s why, though you have to be given Self-realization, the task is very difficult; because you are not used to a way where you don’t have to use your free will. Specially in the Western countries, people have choices even for their cereals. I was told that in America there are 126 types of cereals. This kind of nonsense if you are doing, your ego definitely bloats out, and you think that “We have a right to decide for ourself.” And you cannot accept somebody who can tell you that this is not right, and this is not right.........

They have been given freedom; that too, you’d be amazed, that the freedom was given to Adam and Eve, but how it was achieved, we should understand this.

In the Gnostics Bible it has come out what I’ve been saying, that Adam and Eve, both of them were like pashus, under the complete control of God – no free will. They would have lived in the nude in the garden of Eden, would not have even thought of knowing anything more than that, but to eat, live like animals. They were just like animals. Then it is the Shakti itself took the form of a snake, and went and told them that “You must have the fruit of knowledge.” She wanted to evolve. That was not the idea of God Almighty, because it’s quite a headache, you know, to do such a thing. He thought, “What is the need to have such headaches around Me?”

But Shakti knew Her own style. She knew that She is capable of lots of miracles, and She can make these human beings understand the knowledge, and She can really make them knowledgeable. So She said, “You must eat this fruit, and you must try to know the knowledge.”

So a new type of human race started, which wanted to know what is the knowledge. You have seen that we had all kinds of primitive people before. Then they started evolving, evolving.......................

So you can imagine that we have now brought to the fruitfulness of the promise given long time back, that you will have the knowledge. And you have the knowledge. But with this knowledge you should be identified, and you should know that you have this knowledge, and that this knowledge can be given to others. And we can transform this world into a beautiful world, and fulfill the vision of Adi Shakti.

She created you for this purpose, brought you out from human level to the superhuman level for this purpose, and that is what you have to do it. (1992-09-27)

So I’ll tell you what happened really. That all the animals are called as “pashu”, means they are under the complete control of God Almighty and they have no awareness. So idea of the Father was to make human beings, alright, who would not look like animals, but who would be completely under His control. Because it’s a headache you know, to give freedom to your children. But the Primordial Mother thought that this is not alright. The children must know the knowledge. So She became the snake and told them that you better eat the fruit of knowledge. Otherwise if She had not told, we would have been less (more?) like animals. By that, human beings got their freedom. Of course they make mistakes. They have made lots of mistakes in their choices, doesn’t matter, but they all can get their realization.
So this is the culmination of that desire of the Primordial Mother, that people should get their Self-realization and they should know everything. That is how you are all Sahaja Yogis now.(1992-10-01)

偏離摩訶拉希什米原理的幾種人

---偏離摩訶拉希什米原理的幾種人---

當你的注意力偏移到左邊或右邊，你的摩訶拉希什米原理(Mahalakshmi Principle)就會產生問題。甚至霎哈嘉瑜伽的練習者時常也會偏到左，或偏到右，(所以)練習者必須(隨時)省思觀察自己，因為我們來到霎哈嘉是為了(在中脈)昇進，(而不是要迷失在左邊或右邊)。

假如你走到右邊去，你(可能)開始和集體的領導人爭吵，找他的種種缺失，如此你就變成耶穌基督所講的"喋喋不休的靈魂"(murmuring souls)，你開始講領導人的壞話。這些各地的領導人都是我親自任命的，我知道他們有那些問題，也知道他們没有那些問題，他們和我有密切的連絡，所以你們不必去評論他們。若你去注意、評斷他們，只是妨礙你自己的進展，且妨礙霎哈嘉的發展而已。

另外有些(偏到右邊的)人會試圖去發明新方法，這種人是最麻煩的，因為他們的自我(ego)帶給他們很大的制約，以致於他們看不見他們(這樣做)有什麼問題，他們不知道自己正在做"違反神" (anti-God)的事情。他們不只給自己製造麻煩，也帶給他人許多問題。任何開創新方法的人都會遭受苦難，他們的臉上没有喜樂，他們只是想炫耀而已。這是非常非常危險的事！我看過各種嘗試這些新把戲的人，他們最後都陷入許多的麻煩。因為霎哈嘉有它自己獨特的文化與方法，這些都是完全經過我批准認可的。没有必要去開創新方法。假如要採用新的方法，他們應該離開霎哈嘉。這是一種自我，而且是最糟糕的一種！你們不應該和這種人有任何關係。在霎哈嘉裏，所有的一切(方法)已完全研究好了，所有的知識都已妥當準備在那裏。自創方法的想法是源自一種(特殊的)自我，在這種自我之下，他們無法正確感應生命能量(vibration)，所以他們就從摩訶拉希什米原理偏離出來。(註一)

偏左脈的人很容易掉入如下這些陷阱：其他的(假)導師、其他的書本(知識)等，在霎哈嘉裏亦是如此。有時候，那些太依戀(attach)妻子、小孩和家庭的人會變得非常左脈，他們不只自己没有喜樂，也不讓別人享受樂趣，這種人也應該離開霎哈嘉。在克服他們這些依戀執着之前，他們不應該待在霎哈嘉裏。

註一：Shri Mataji在另一談話也提過此，請看: "不要去嘗試新的方法" ( http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/blog-post.html  )。

墨爾本集體在1991也發生類似的事，整個集體幾乎散掉，Shri Mataji 1992 親自到澳洲處理這個問題，在墨爾本也親身治療許多因這些錯誤方法而感染的練習者，在3月離澳前最後一次演講，還在大庭廣眾逐一唱名這些能量有問題的練習者，教他們如何繼續治療自己。

註二： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在摩訶拉希什米普祭(Mahalakshmi Puja)的談話1993-09-08. JSM ! 敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

Now this Mahalakshmi principle goes out of gear because of left or right side movement of our attention. Even people come to Sahaja Yoga and they start going either to the left or to the right. One has to keep a proper watch, because you have come to Sahaja Yoga to ascend.

Now, if you move to the right side then you start fighting with your leader, finding faults with the leader, and, as Christ has said, you become ‘murmuring souls’ – you start talking ill about your leader. I have appointed Myself the leaders, and I know what’s wrong with them or what’s not wrong with them. They are in close contact with Me, so you don’t have to judge them, by that you are hampering the progress of Sahaja Yoga and your own. 

Then there are other people who try to find out new methods. Such people are extremely difficult because their ego, conditions them so much that they don’t see what’s wrong with them, and they don’t know they are doing anti-God activities. They are not creating problem for themselves but for others also. Anybody who starts like this suffers a lot, there is no joy on their face, they just try to show off and it is very, very dangerous! I have seen people who have tried all these tricks and fallen into lots of problems because Sahaja Yoga has it’s own culture, it has it’s own methods which are absolutely approved by Me. There is no need to start some new methods, if so they should get out of Sahaja Yoga. This is the worst type of ego! And one should not have anything to do with such people. Already everything has been researched in Sahaja Yoga. All the knowledge is already there, but this comes from a kind of a ego which doesn’t feel the vibrations very well, and then you try to push away from the Mahalakshmi principle.

The left side people, when they move, they fall into the trap of other type of gurus or other type of readings, even in Sahaja Yoga. Sometimes people who’ll get too much attached to their wives, to their children, to their family, too much attached, they become very left-sided. They have no joy and they don’t want others to enjoy. Such people also should go out of Sahaja Yoga. Till they have overcome their attachments they should not be in Sahaja Yoga.

摩訶拉希什米原理的精進(下)

---摩訶拉希什米原理的精進(下)---

在喚醒你的摩訶拉希什米原理(Mahalakshmi Principle)之後，你應該要知道如何來保持摩訶拉希什米原理的完整。(註一)

霎哈嘉是讓人類先得到自覺，讓他們在摩訶拉希什米原理中有一點微小的光，如此他們可以看見自己有什麼問題，即透過感知自己的輪穴那裏有阻塞，你知道自己有什麼問題，然後你可以去清潔、去糾正自己。所以你有這些有關輪穴及清潔的知識，你可以保持中脈在打通的狀態，保持在不偏左、不偏右的平衡狀態。

這是一個很大的祝福，你(透過自己的雙手)可以知道自己，而且你知道如何去清潔、治療自己。這是對自己內在狀況的深層的理解，經由此，你們可以開始有真正的内省，因為在摩訶拉希什米原理之下，你已昇進到一個靈(Spirit)的狀態，這個靈(原本就)是可以看清楚、可以知道這一切。所以你可以真正知道自己的問題及如何去改善。不只對自己可以如此了解，對他人亦是如此。你可以不被他人的問題所干擾，而且你知道如何保護自己。我要特別提醒的是，要特別注意你的自我(ego)，自我是霎哈嘉練習者很大的敵人。除非你除去你的自我，否則你不可能(真正)進入頂輪，你要(隨時)觀察自己，注意自己的自我，注意自己還欠缺什麼，注意自己被什麼所制約。

假如你要繼續在昇進的道路前進，最重要的是照顧你的摩訶拉希什米原理，如此你就會忽略那些不重要的俗務，你會試圖保持輪穴的清潔，你會認真去享受靜坐，你會(儘量)將昆達里尼保持上升在頂輪的位置，你會去注意自己、觀察自己。

有些人的昇進可以很快，他們可以維持住而不倒退，進而到達無疑惑的覺知狀態(doubtless awareness)；但是有些人就很慢，因為他們總是被一些小事、不重要的事所擾動、拖累，譬如你有一些西班牙貨幣存在銀行，現在西幣貶值了，你開始覺得好像大事發生了，好像全世界都要崩潰了。假如你是如此，你應該要知道你還不是一個霎哈嘉瑜伽士，你還未到達無疑惑的狀態。同樣地，若你在集體內，你想到的是："為什麼不是我當領導者？"、"爲什麼這活動不是由我來領導指揮？"，那你就從摩訶拉希什米原理掉下來了，你開始和別人競爭，開始陷入權力的遊戲中。或是你忘記了你是一位霎哈嘉瑜伽士，或是你還會同人爭吵，或說不好聽的話等等，都表示你不知道如何來掌握你的摩訶拉希什米原理。

所以隨著這摩訶拉希什米原理的發展，這原理更在你内裏顯現，讓你更強壯，你(慢慢地)不再有疑惑，不論是對你自己，或對其他的事物。你就達到一種純粹的意識狀態，没有任何外物可以破壞擾動這種意識狀態。此時的你會變得十分有活力、有創造力。無論你做什麼、說什麼，人們都會印象深刻。在這種無疑惑的狀態下，你知道你就像一個氣壓計，雖然你(的輪穴)仍會被感染，但那些感染只是給你一些訊息，你不會對此產生任何的疑惑。對你而言，更重要的是你隨時都成為生命能量(vibration)流動的一部分。

在這狀態下，你不只對自己没有疑惑，對霎哈嘉瑜伽及霎哈嘉的知識也不再有任何存疑。在這個階段，你會發覺諸事順利，也有許多奇蹟發生，以致於你都會驚訝到事情就如此順利圓滿。你會在恰當的時間，碰到關鍵的人，讓你不禁想到： "我為什麼要擔憂呢？畢竟上天的大能都為我安排妥當，為什麼我要擔心呢？"

所以這摩訶拉希什米原理表示你會是一個親切和善的人，非常能原諒他人，你不會被外物所擾動，但是你却非常急切想去幫助他人，你並不是要討好別人，或希望獲得回報。你不會再盯著手錶，因為你不會被時間綁住，你變成一種獨特的人格，它不只帶給你喜樂，也帶給周遭的每一個人。

當你的摩訶拉希什米原理非常妥善時，你不會感到疲累，在每片樹葉、每片草，在天空、在所有的一切，你都可以感到喜樂。當你獨處時，你也可以享受自己，你不會感到無聊，而你也不會令人覺得無趣。假如你可以進入萬事萬物的摩訶拉希什米原理的本質，那麼這一切的存有就只是喜樂而已！

註一：本譯文是此談話的主題，在主題之前有一序幕，請看：摩訶拉希什米原理的喚醒(上)

( http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/08/mahalakshmi-principle-seeker-19401990.html  )。

註二：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在摩訶拉希什米普祭(Mahalakshmi Puja)的談話1992-10-01. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.

But we must understand how to keep our Mahalakshmi principle intact. The first thing is that we get our realization so easily, that we don’t understand the value of it, how tremendous it is, how glorifying it is. But supposing if I had asked you to go on the Himalayas, fast for one month, and then die, and come next life, might be, you might have felt just the right thing! But My style was that no, no, no, let them first have little light in their Mahalakshmi principle and with a little light only they can see what is wrong with them. I don’t have to tell them, they themselves can see.
So this Mahalakshmi principle within us only, in the shushumna Nadi, has managed to show you what is wrong with you, because you discover what chakra is in problem about yourself, then you don’t like it and you want to get it corrected also. If I tell somebody that, “Your agnya is catching,” I mean to say it is ego, but I don’t say that way, I just say “Your agnya is catching.” Immediately that person will say, “Yes, yes, I know, Mother, I have my agnya is very bad.”
So with this knowledge you can keep your central path opened. For that, one has to have balance, balance means moderation. Say whatever was your previous life, some of you might have been very much interested in sports, or maybe in food. So with the advent of Sahaja Yoga, now you can see yourself where you are going wrong and what should be done to put it right........

So what a blessing it is now that we know about ourselves, also we know how to cure ourselves. This is a very big insight we get and that’s how we start introspection. And we don’t feel shy that we have to see, ourselves, what’s wrong with us, we don’t feel shy about it. Because with this Mahalakshmi principle, you have ascended to a state of your Spirit which just sees, which knows and when you just see things then you understand what’s wrong and how you can help it. You understand also other people. To keep yourself aloof or undisturbed by the problems of others, you know how to protect yourself. But still I would say ego is a very big enemy of a Sahaja Yogi. It is to be understood that if we cannot get rid of our ego, we can never rise into the Sahastrara. So through your meditation, through your dedication, you can keep your Kundalini in the central path of evolution. You have to watch, you have to be really watchful, as to what is the thing that is in me is lacking, what is it that is conditioning me?..........

if you want to go ahead with your Ascent, then please remember that the most important thing is to look after your Mahalakshmi principle. When you realize that Mahalakshmi principle is the most important thing for you, you neglect all other things. Then, to you, the most important thing is Mahalakshmi. You always try to keep your centers clean, you meditate nicely, you put the Kundalini up on the fontanelle bone area, and all the time you are watchful about yourself.....

In the Mahalakshmi principle, there are certain cautions we have to take. One of the cautions is that when you come to Sahaja Yoga you should not think that, “Why shouldn’t I be a leader,” you see sort of, “Why shouldn’t I be something great?” And this competition then starts, and you are brought down from your Mahalakshmi principle to some sort of a power game. So this development, the strength within, when it starts manifesting, you have no doubts about yourself, you have no doubts about anything whatsoever.
So you reach such a pure state of consciousness where nothing can spoil your consciousness. And you become so original about everything, you become so dynamic and so original, whatever you do or whatever you say, people are impressed by that...........

the Kundalini sometimes goes down, you should know that there is something wrong with your Mahalakshmi principle, that’s why it’s coming down. Of course the collective helps you, of course all pujas help you, but it’s your complete understanding which is very important. Because it’s a very subtle body within you. It can get disturbed by any small thing. When I meet some of them I am surprised that there’s a little thing that has come in between like, the father had a guru, or some sort of very small thing and it spoils the… Say now a little thing goes into your eyes, you cannot see anything. It’s a very subtle thing. So you have to be watchful: “Why, why my vibrations are not alright? Why do I feel my agnya or my nabhi? Why?” And logically you must find out, what’s the matter. I mean of course it is for your benevolence, for your joy, for complete transformation, everything, the Mahalakshmi principle is there. But something small is not there, and that is why you are not getting your doubtless awareness.
For example, once your have your doubtless awareness, you know that you are just like a barometer and if you are catching it is just giving you information and you are not identified anymore with doubts about it, and most important thing, to you, becomes the flow of vibrations all the time, that’s the most important thing.
This is the state where I say you are doubtlessly aware, where you have no doubts about yourself, about Sahaja Yoga, about the knowledge of Sahaja Yoga. But in some people this ascent is very fast and they keep it, they have maintained it, but in some people it’s very slow, they get disturbed by small, small things. Like some Sahaja Yogi, supposing has money in the bank, and pesetas have fallen – immediately he becomes as if something, the whole earth, has fallen down or God knows what happened. That time one should know that, “No, I am not yet a Sahaja Yogi. I am not on doubtless awareness,”.........

In that state, then you find everything works out, works out just. So many miracles, so many miracles that you are amazed how these things are working out. And these miracles go on happening to you and then you start thinking that “See now, why should I worry about anything, after all, everything is worked out for me by the Divine Power, why should I worry?” You meet the right person at the right time and the right things happen. But when you forget that you are a Sahaja Yogi, you still go on fighting, saying bad things, cannot adjust in collectivity -all kinds of nonsense. You just don’t know how to manage your principle of Mahalakshmi.
So the principle of Mahalakshmi is that you are very gracious. You are forgiving. You are not disturbed. But you are very anxious to help others. You are never tired doing good to others, and you never ask for any reward. You don’t watch your watches. Time is at your feet. So you go beyond time, you go beyond your gunas, and you become a personality which is something so unique, which not only gives joy to yourself but to everyone.........

So this is the difference, that you never feel tired. In every leaf, in every grass-blade, in the sky, all around, you feel there is joy, and when you are alone, you are enjoying yourself. You are never bored, and you never bore anyone......

If you can enter into the essence of that Mahalakshmi principle of everything, the whole thing is nothing but joy.

摩訶拉希什米原理的喚醒(上)

----摩訶拉希什米原理的喚醒(上)----

摩訶拉希什米原理(Mahalakshmi Principle，註一)是我們昇進中最重要的，這原理(或譯：力量)原本即在我們的内裏，但是在我們未達到一個狀況之前，它是不會被喚醒的。這狀況即是指：人們(開始)發覺他們並不滿足現有的生命狀態。像在富裕的國家，人們的物質生活都很好，不只有食物，日常生活所需也都很充足，人們也有錢、有很舒適的生活，但是這些並不能給予人們生命的喜樂，人們會開始問一些基本的問題："為什麼我活在地球上？難道只是被生下來、賺些錢，然後就死掉嗎？"、"生命的意義及目的是什麼呢？" 當諸如此類的問題開始敲著人們的内心時，這個摩訶拉希什米原理就被喚醒了，追尋的道路正式展開，人們變成了一個求道者(seeker)。

所以我們無法強迫一個人去追尋，這是一個天生内在的動力，當它開始向外顯露時，人才會開始這個歷程。當你開始想去發覺更内在的意義，如"我的生命的目的是什麼?"時，這表示你開始重視你自己，而且可能你也觀察到周遭的人的生活，他們沈溺在各種娛樂和刺激，可是他們並未有真正的喜樂，這些都帶給你疑惑，於是你就開始尋找答案。你可能去找書，去探尋靈性的課程，去接觸宗教等等。這表示摩訶拉希什米原理在你内裏展現，你開始追尋真理了！這個原理(或指力量)在過去五十年(譯者：約指1940~1990)非常活躍。我應該説這是(因為)一個新時代將開始，即目前將從"鬥爭期"(Kali Yuga，即指黑暗時代、末法時代)過渡到"完滿期" (Satya Yuga)，目前正是介於兩者之間的過渡期(Krita Yuga，或譯 "成就期")。在這個過渡期，無所不在的上天大能(All-pervading Power of Divine Love)變得非常活躍(註二)，這大能即是太初母親(Primordial Mother)的力量。由於這力量變得活躍，人們同時也突然間覺知到他們需要去追尋，有非常多的人是如此。

註一：譯者：所謂的"摩訶拉希什米原理"，指的是人向上追求靈性、在中脈向上昇進的原理。
註二：關於過渡期的特色，請參考另一譯文：過渡期 (  http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/kritayuga-shri-mataji-yogis-kritayuga.html )

註三： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在摩訶拉希什米普祭(Mahalakshmi Puja)的談話1992-10-01. JSM ! 敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

So this Mahalakshmi principle is the most important thing for our ascent. This principle is within us but is not awakened before we have achieved a certain amount of situation where we find that we are not yet satisfied with our life......

But in the affluent countries, it so happens that people start feeling that now, we have got this money, we’ve got all the comfort of life, but still it’s not giving us the joy of life..........

And then, the basic principle questions: “Why am I on this earth? Is it just to be born and make some money and then die?” When such questions start coming into the minds of the people, then this Mahalakshmi principle gets awakened and the seeking starts, and they become Sadakas – means seekers.
So this principle cannot be forced on anyone. It is something just as innately it starts manifesting. When you try to find what is beyond, after all, what is the purpose of my life? Because you start respecting yourself. Also you see around yourself people who are indulging into pleasures of life, but there is nothing joyful in them. So this kind of thing, that is your atmosphere you can call, your national life, your family life, everything starts giving you questions. That questioning itself, you see, all the time, makes you seek the answers to these questions. Then you start reading books, you hear from somebody that you can get spiritual training, you go to that place, I mean, you just turn to those things..........

This principle was very active from the last fifty years, I should say and a new era started, that is the Kali Yuga, and now it is the Krita Yuga – means this All-Pervading Power of Divine Love, which is the power of the Primordial Mother, became active, simultaneously with the people who suddenly became aware that they have to seek, so many of them.

宇宙大我(一)

------宇宙大我(一)------

一旦你進入宇宙大我(Virata)，你所有的分離或差別的想法都會消失。你不再有任何種族、國籍、屬於那個城市或村莊等的觀念。在這個階段，你不屬於任一地方，你是屬於所有的地方。當你不再追求某一種特別的食物，當你不再特別喜歡某一種人，當你可以調適自己來融入各種處境、各種家庭、各種人群時，你就處在宇宙大我的狀態。你可以和酒醉的人相處，你可以和各式各樣的人相處，没有任何人或物會困擾你、會讓你感到不快，因為你已經處在宇宙大我的狀態，因為所有一切(稜角與污穢)都被宇宙大我吸收，以致於你沒有感覺到什麼。是宇宙大我忍受這一切苦楚，而不是你來承受。這是最佳的狀態，我希望你們都可以達到此境地。在這裡你變成全然的自由，再也沒有什麼可以吸引你、可以影響你。你擁有你的自尊，且理解到：你是一個霎哈嘉瑜伽士，你是和上天的大能相聯結，你是上帝國度中的一員。

處在宇宙大我的狀態時，你再也沒有任何疑惑，因為你已是整體的一部分，而且你可以影響任何地方。這樣子的人不只到處都可以被人感覺到(他的獨特)，而且在任何地方也是最有影響力的人。

要達到宇宙大我的狀態，每一個人應該要慢慢地、逐步地試著說、不斷地(對自己)說：

這不是我的姊妹，這不是我的兄弟，所有人都是我的兄弟姊妹。我愛所有人如同愛我自己的兄弟姊妹。這不是我的家庭，整個的霎哈嘉才是我的家庭。這個東西不是僅屬於我而已，它屬於每一個人，每一個人都有權利(來使用它)。

你的整個注意力必須像是如此，當你的想法及觀念開始如此成長，就是梵文所謂的"vestiti tu sumestiti"，即"從個人到集體"(from individual to collective)。擁有如此特質的人會是各種集體工作中最有效力、最有影響力的人。

註一： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在錫呂克里希納普際(Shri Krishna Puja)的談話1992-08-16. JSM ! 敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

Once you get into Virata, then all your ideas of separating or differentiating goes away. You do not have any more ideas of races left, of nationality, of your city, of your village or anything. At that stage you don’t belong to any place. You belong to every place, and you don’t belong to every place. Such a situation comes in when you don’t hanker after any particular food, you don’t like any particular type of people, you can adjust yourself into any circumstances, into any families, into any kind of people. You can live with drunkards. I mean I have lived with drunkards – “lived” means I have shaken hands at least with so many of them. You can be with any kind of person. Nothing bothers you because you are in the Virata state; because everything is absorbed by the Virat, and you do not feel anything. Whatever sort of person may be, you do not feel it. The Virat has to suffer, not you, and that is what is the best state where I want all of you to reach, and to become absolutely free. Nothing can impress you, nothing can influence you, nothing can dissuade you, but you stand on your self-esteem and understanding about yourself, that you’re a Sahaja Yogi and that you are connected with this power, and you are a citizen of Kingdom of God.

At the Virata state there’s no doubt left about it, no doubt, because you become part and parcel of the whole, absolutely, and you can affect anywhere. If this finger is hurt, then this finger can feel it. In the same way such a person is felt everywhere, and not only that, but that person can be effective everywhere. For that state of reaching to Virat, one should try to slowly, gradually, “Ya neti neti vachanaih nirgama avochu” say. You have to go on saying, “This is not my sister. This is not my brother. They are all my brothers. They’re all my sisters. I love them the same as my sisters and my brothers. This is not my family. The whole Sahaja Yoga is my family.” The whole attention should move like that. “This is not only mine, it is everybody’s. It belongs to everyone. Everybody has a right.” That sort of a thing, when it starts growing from individual, what we call is the “vestiti tu sumestiti” in Sanskrit, they say “vestiti tu sumestiti”, from individual to collective. And such a personality then is the most effective one for any kind of collective work.

照鏡子、自戀與真我

----照鏡子、自戀與真我----

某些人有一種成天照鏡子的習慣，這是非常不好的，因為這種習慣會帶給你一種奇怪可笑的自我(funny ego)。看錫呂克里希納的相片，是遠比看你自己的臉孔來得更好，如此你的面貌會變成像錫呂克里希納。經神科医生將自戀(narcissism)視為一種疾病，這是很正確的。

每天常在鏡子前觀看自己的臉孔，這是非常危險的，它會養成一種奇怪的人格特質。這種人會開始告訴自己："喔！我(像)是拿破崙！"，然後他變成了一個拿破崙，開始行事像一個拿破崙。有一天，我們就會看到從浴室(照完鏡子)走出來一個拿破崙！

所以一個人必須很小心，不要放太多注意力在自己身上(self)，或以為自己很重要，而是要將注意力放在你的真我(Self)。這真我是在你的内裏，它就是你的靈(Spirit)。當你照顧你的真我這一面，很多意想不到的事，就會以很優美的方式在你的身上發生。

註一： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在錫呂克里希納普際(Shri Krishna Puja)的談話1992-08-16. JSM ! 敬請 Sahaja 兄弟姊妹們指正.

But some people have a habit of looking in the mirror all the time, which is very wrong, because it gives you a kind of a funny ego. Is better to look at Shri Krishna’s photograph than to look at your own faces, so that your face will become like that of Shri Krishna; instead of you start looking in the mirror all the time. What will become of you, God knows, because maybe if you go to your past, God knows what you’ll become. So also I’m thankful to psychiatrists that they don’t like narcissism. But it’s very dangerous to all the time watch your face in the mirror, very dangerous. It creates a very funny personality, that you start telling yourself, “Oh, I’m Napoleon.” So you become Napoleon, and start behaving like Napoleon. Next day you find one Napoleon walks out of the bathroom!

So one has to be careful not to pay so much attention and importance to your own self, but to your Self which is within, which is your Spirit. And if you look after that side, then all these things will happen in such a beautiful manner.