----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.
