*** 順服(上)------捨棄制約
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許多霎哈嘉練習者欠缺的就是順服(surrendering，註一)，這是現代的霎哈嘉瑜伽的唯一條件。即你必須真正的順服，假如你開始用你的頭腦，或開始想用其他的方法(試圖)去了解霎哈嘉瑜伽，那麼你是無法深入霎哈嘉。假如做不到順服，那麼没有人可以進入上帝的國。
順服並不是你應捨棄你的家庭、小孩、房子及財產。此處所講的順服，只是首先要放下你的自我(ego)，然後再拋棄你的種種制約(conditionings)。舉例來說，有一次我碰到一位男士，他遭受許多折磨，我問他："誰是你的導師？"，他告訴我他的導師的名字，我說："那位導師對你的所做所為並非是對你好，你是否願意放棄他？"，他答道："好 ! 明天。"，我說："為什麼不能今天呢？"，他答道：" 好，今天 ! 但是我必須將他的全部東西丢掉，所以明天早上我會去做。我應該丢掉那些東西呢？"，我回答："所有你用來崇拜他的東西全部都要丢掉！"。他檢視房子内的東西，找出所有用來崇特他以前的導師的東西，集中起來全部都扔到大海，並對大海說："對不起，我因為這個人而遭受了許多痛苦，希望你不要因為這些東西而受苦。"
所以假如你没有這般聰明的才智，那麼你是無法做到捨棄的。一般人(很容易)就陷在這些習慣與制約裏，我知道許多人，他們就是非常難以去除他們的制約，比起去除自我來得更困難。人有許多世俗的制約，人生下來的第一個制約就是你的出生地所帶來的制約，如生在印度或英國，你就會有當地的制約。經過霎哈嘉的洗禮，我看到大多數人突然間開始看見自己國家的問題、人民的問題、宗教的問題及自己所讀的書的問題，立即地他們清楚地看到這其中有那些錯誤，並開始以此來開玩笑。我看到全世界的練習者再也不會因為自己是英國人(或俄國人)而說自己是最優秀的民族。你會看到自己國家、社會的制約，你會厭惡這些錯誤不好的制約，你不會認同它。
在順服之中，事實上你發展出一種狀態，即你從内在變成一個修行者(sanyasi，註二)，即再也没有什麼可以主宰掌控你，sanyasi 的意思正是指一個人可以超越任何(制約)，没有什麼可以纏住他。他就只是(單純地)看著外物，他就知道它的本質，或許他没有說出來，但是他知道一切。他也不會去做任何不對的事。他是如此地抽離與無執(detached)，所以他可以看見他自己的制約，他可以看見他自己的家人的問題，他可以看見週遭的問題，而他不會去認同它們。
許多霎哈嘉練習者欠缺的就是順服(surrendering，註一)，這是現代的霎哈嘉瑜伽的唯一條件。即你必須真正的順服，假如你開始用你的頭腦，或開始想用其他的方法(試圖)去了解霎哈嘉瑜伽，那麼你是無法深入霎哈嘉。假如做不到順服，那麼没有人可以進入上帝的國。
順服並不是你應捨棄你的家庭、小孩、房子及財產。此處所講的順服，只是首先要放下你的自我(ego)，然後再拋棄你的種種制約(conditionings)。舉例來說，有一次我碰到一位男士，他遭受許多折磨，我問他："誰是你的導師？"，他告訴我他的導師的名字，我說："那位導師對你的所做所為並非是對你好，你是否願意放棄他？"，他答道："好 ! 明天。"，我說："為什麼不能今天呢？"，他答道：" 好，今天 ! 但是我必須將他的全部東西丢掉，所以明天早上我會去做。我應該丢掉那些東西呢？"，我回答："所有你用來崇拜他的東西全部都要丢掉！"。他檢視房子内的東西，找出所有用來崇特他以前的導師的東西，集中起來全部都扔到大海，並對大海說："對不起，我因為這個人而遭受了許多痛苦，希望你不要因為這些東西而受苦。"
所以假如你没有這般聰明的才智，那麼你是無法做到捨棄的。一般人(很容易)就陷在這些習慣與制約裏，我知道許多人，他們就是非常難以去除他們的制約，比起去除自我來得更困難。人有許多世俗的制約，人生下來的第一個制約就是你的出生地所帶來的制約，如生在印度或英國，你就會有當地的制約。經過霎哈嘉的洗禮，我看到大多數人突然間開始看見自己國家的問題、人民的問題、宗教的問題及自己所讀的書的問題，立即地他們清楚地看到這其中有那些錯誤，並開始以此來開玩笑。我看到全世界的練習者再也不會因為自己是英國人(或俄國人)而說自己是最優秀的民族。你會看到自己國家、社會的制約，你會厭惡這些錯誤不好的制約，你不會認同它。
在順服之中，事實上你發展出一種狀態，即你從内在變成一個修行者(sanyasi，註二)，即再也没有什麼可以主宰掌控你，sanyasi 的意思正是指一個人可以超越任何(制約)，没有什麼可以纏住他。他就只是(單純地)看著外物，他就知道它的本質，或許他没有說出來，但是他知道一切。他也不會去做任何不對的事。他是如此地抽離與無執(detached)，所以他可以看見他自己的制約，他可以看見他自己的家人的問題，他可以看見週遭的問題，而他不會去認同它們。
註一：surrendering 原意是指：臣服、投降、放棄、交托，此處尤指放下自己的自我(ego)及制約(conditionings)。
註二：sanyasi 指印度婆羅門中, 已到達最後階段的修行者(托缽者). 他們將不再輪迴, 而是要回到大梵.
註三： 江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji在Mahashivaratri Puja的談話1994-03-14. JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正.
But what is lacking in them is
surrendering. It’s embarrassing to say but is a fact. This is the only
condition of modern Sahaja Yoga that you have to really surrender. If you start
using your brain, if you start using other methods to understand Sahaja Yoga,
you cannot. You must surrender and as Islam is nothing but surrender, Islam
means surrender. And if that surrender is not there it is impossible to
establish anyone in the Kingdom of God.
Surrender is not that you should give up
your family, give up your children, or give up your houses and homes and your
properties. Surrendering is here: give up your ego to begin with and then give
up your conditionings. For example, the other day I met one gentleman and he is
suffering a lot. So I asked him, “Who is your Guru?”, so he gave Me one name of
a Guru. I said, “He’s not done any good to you, will you give him up?” He said,
“Tomorrow.” I said, “Why not today?” He said, “Today, but I have to throw away
all his things. So tomorrow morning I will do it.” I said, “All right, do it.”
“What should I throw away Mother?” I said, “Then all the things with which you
worshipped him, throw away, throw away.” Then he went around the whole house,
found out whatever was there which was used for worshipping him, everything he
gathered together, threw in the sea. And then he told the sea that, “I am sorry
I have suffered a lot because of this man, now you please don’t suffer.”
So this kind of a very penetrating
intelligence if you don’t have you cannot give up. One sticks to that. I know
of so many who find it so difficult to get rid of their conditionings. That’s
more difficult than ego. Mundane conditionings and condition schemes that you
have. We have first conditioning that supposing you are born in India or
England or any place. After Sahaja Yoga I’ve seen most of the people they
suddenly start seeing what’s wrong with their countrymen, what’s wrong with
their country, what’s wrong with their religion, what’s wrong with the books
they were reading. Immediately they start seeing it clearly, that this was the
mistake, this is wrong. They all make fun of them. I’ve seen people all over
the world. Nobody says that ‘No, no, no, no, because we are English we are the
best, we are Russians so we are the best, or we are Indians we are the best’.
Immediately they find out what’s wrong with them and why these people are not
getting Realization. ........
So wherever your attention goes you
start seeing reality and then you understand that this has been the
conditioning of our country, of our society. And then they abhor all that is
wrong, they never identify with it.
But first thing as I said, is
surrendering. In surrendering actually you develop a kind of a state where I
would say you become a sanyasi, from within. That means nothing can dominate
you, what is a sanyasi is a person who is above everything else. Nothing can
stick to him. He just, looks at things and he knows what it is. He may not say,
he knows everything and he doesn’t do whatever is wrong. He’s so detached, that
in that detachment only he can see what’s wrong with him. He starts seeing his
family people, he starts seeing other surroundings, everywhere he starts seeing
what’s wrong. And he does not identify with them, is very surprising.
