反應

*** 反應  ***

經由昆達里尼的力量，發生在你身上最重要的是：你進入了''無思慮的覺知'' (thoughtless awareness)，即你是活在當下。(對常人而言)，要活在當下是不可能的。一旦你進入無思慮的覺知狀態，你的腦袋心智不再受到各種思緒的轟炸，用簡單的字眼來說，即你不再起反應(reflect)，即你没有一個隨時起反應的心智。常起反應可以說是今天霎哈嘉練習者的一個基本毛病，不隨便起反應是通往穩定成長的道路。例如我(常)看到有些人無緣無故地大笑，或一看到某人或某事就有一些反應，嘴巴開始說出種種的意見，如：''這個不錯但沒有很好......''，幾乎對任何事情，他們都可以發表看法，這在西方世界尤其明顯，每一個人好像都非常有知識，滔滔不絕說什麼是最好的，什麼不是最好的...... 。當他開始如此談話時，他的心智就變得(非常)容易反應。假如你的心智頭腦不容易起反應，那麼你就可以有無思慮的靜觀。只是靜觀周遭的一切，靜靜地看著，只是一個旁觀者，而不必去反應。假如你用你頭腦心智的力量，那麼這靜觀的力量就會消退。這是霎哈嘉練習者常見的毛病，一個很容易起反應的心，對靈性是很不利的，它會造成你無法成長、昇進。帶著一顆容易起反應的心，你會有(許多)不同的情緒。 ........這個容易起反應的心智是當今練習者成長的最大障礙。

假如你可以不再起反應，你立即會處在和平的海洋之中，此時若你看著某事，你只是靜觀，但你心中沒有任何思緒的漣漪。若可如此，你會變得很有創造力、有活力，而且會十分有愛心。你也不會有任何害怕，不會去擔心別人是否會利用你的愛心。只有在没有任何反應之心時，你才可以去享受(你所碰到的一切)，因為你已將一切交托給上天(Divine)，而不是你在負責這一切，(所以)你會知道你不必去起任何反應。這是你最大的力量-------不要去起任何反應。........

當我們對某事起反應時，我們就會從那裏吸收，而且我們的注意力往往是集中在他人的缺點，如這個人(什麼)不好、那個人那裏有問題、她的髮型不合適、她的莎麗不佳等等，都是一些無意義的事。在這些反應之中，我們將所有的負面都吸收進來。假如你凡事贊美，至少你是處在比較好的境地，不會吸收到負面的東西。但要做到無思慮的靜觀中產生出來的贊美，則需要相當的深度，........只有當你能達到不起反應時，你才可能有如此的深度。但是人類常是非常容易凡事都起反應，在西方尤其平常，這個地毯不好、那個不好.........，總是隨時都評論人物及事情。這些都是不重要的，這些有什麼重要性呢？假如你是坐在天堂的花園之中，外在的這些有什麼關係呢？你有没有問自己：我現在是坐在那裏？我正在做什麼？

註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在Navaratri Puja的談話1995-10-01。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

But now you must understand that this power that you have, what it does to you. What it creates in you. The most important thing is by this power you become thoughtlessly aware, that is you come in the present. To achieve the present is an impossible task. So, once you are in thoughtless awareness, what happens, that no thoughts bombard your mind, wherever you may be, you may be in America, you may be in any place, you are not bombarded by thoughts. So, what does that mean? Into very simple language, we can say, it means that you do not reflect. You do not have a reflecting mind. Now this is the basic problem of Sahaja Yogis of today, which one should try to conquer. That you do not reflect, that’s the only way you can achieve your (steadiness?). For example, I’ve seen some people, for nothing at all they’ll just start laughing, nothing at all. They see somebody, immediately they will react – this was nice but not so good, they start giving their opinions, especially in the west, about everything. Everybody seems to be very knowledgeable and start telling, what is the best, what is not the best, what is not good, and once they start saying something like that, the mind becomes reflective. If the mind is not reflective, then you have thoughtless awareness. Watch anything – just to watch, just to witness, you should not reflect, if you are using your mental power then this power subsides. This is a very common defect with people, because I think you people are more intelligent, they would think maybe, I think you are well educated, might be – I don’t know, whatever you think. But this reflecting mind is a very dangerous thing for spirituality, you will never grow and then with a reflecting mind you will have different emotions, with something you reflect on somebody.      ......

But still I would say, the reflecting mind still acts. And this is the greatest hurdle for the progress of Sahaja Yogis of today. I’ve been thinking why is it the reflecting mind, is so active in the Sahaja Yogis of today? If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace. You watch something, you just watch, there is no ripple of thought in your mind. Then you become extremely creative, you become extremely dynamic, you become extremely compassionate. You have no fear, some people think, if you are compassionate, you see this man might (letch?) with you, you have no fear. All virtues that you have to enjoy, you can only enjoy when you do not reflect. That means that you leave everything to the Divine. You are not in charge. You don’t see that you have to be reflecting on something. This is the greatest power you have got – is not to reflect.  ..........

Now, when we reflect we absorb, when we reflect on something, we absorb that thing. And mostly our attention goes to the defects of others. This person is no good, that is not good, her hair is not alright, her sari is not alright – this that and all nonsense. So what are we doing, we are absorbing all the bad things also. Now when you start admiration of something, then what happens that you may not get the bad things but at least you are on a better line. But still the admiration in thoughtless awareness is really very deep. .....

So the depth in you will only come when you do not reflect. But it is very common with human beings, especially in the west, this carpet is no good, that is no good, this smell is coming, that is there, always trying to judge others, judge other things. It isn’t important, what is so important, if you are sitting in the garden of heavens, what does it matter? Where you are sitting, what you are doing?

錫呂瑪塔吉回憶打開頂輪的種種（三）

*** 錫呂瑪塔吉回憶打開頂輪的種種（三）***

當頂輪打開之後，我没有想到我可以在這一生看到這些工作(譯者：指很多人得到自覺及轉變)完成，其實這是昆達里尼及無所不在的神聖力量(Paramchaitanya)的偉大成就。我本身對這神聖力量的工作亦感到十分訝異，雖然它是我的力量(My Shakti)，我也不知道它做了什麼。你們都見証到這力量在我的相片創造了許多異相(註三)，及展現各式各樣的奇蹟。

為什麼有這麼多的奇蹟呢？因為這個神聖力量是以祝福的形式來到，它在任何地方都祝福你、給你愛，以各種方式來照顧你，但是它推動工作的步調非常快速，連我都無法理解。像美國這種國度，人們對靈性根本沒有敏銳度的，它也做了很多工作。有一次我在美國公開演講，整個巨大的廳堂都擠滿了人，而且這些人五分鐘就得到自覺，相同的情形也發生在洛杉磯及加拿大。我都無法了解為何事情會如此發展，但是它就是如此發展，且十分快速，連我都不知道它下一步要做什麼。我只能說這個力量是很急迫地想做一些事，想對全球的轉換做一些事，而且這個力量表現的方式也在迅速增加，種類也非常多，無人可以知道到底是怎麼一回事、事情是如何發生的。在它目前的行進中也不暫停腳步，所以只有那些加入它、為它工作的人，才可以獲得這力量的幫助。

你們每一個人都應該去了解這力量，了解它工作的模式，如此你才可以順著它的方式來使用它。假如你開始使用這力量，你可以成就各式各樣的工作。假如有人給你麻煩，你就對他引來的困擾做一個班丹。當你做任何事情時，你也可以做一個班丹，只需要一個班丹！當你做班丹時，這力量就流經你。當你遭遇困難或有疑問時，你只需要對此困難做一個班丹，這個力量就會來解決這個問題。你已經有這個能力，你是非常有力量的，假如你去使用它，你的成就將是没有限制的。但是縱使在得到自覺之後，練習者往往迷失了。除非他體認到這力量是十分特別，否則霎哈嘉是很難散播推廣出去。

我無意間來到那戈爾，我發現有假導師用催眠手法來欺騙求道者，就在那時我決定打開人類的頂輪，這完全是一個自然而然(sahaja)的決定，我只是去祈願此時頂輪應打開，就只是這樣，我並没有去做什麼。一旦頂輪打開之後，我是很驚訝發現人類也可以給其他人自覺，甚至也可以大規模地給一群人自覺，當然他們必須使用我的相片。我們應該說這是一個不倚靠什麼，純粹自然而然的過程。

註三：指許多練習者拍到無法解釋的奇蹟相片。可以參見如下網站所蒐集的：

http://www.imageevent.com/sahaja/miraclephotos?p

註四：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在光明節普祭 (Diwali Puja Puja)的談話1995-10-29。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

All the work is going on so smoothly, and when Sahasrara was opened, I had not thought that I would be able to see all this work done in My lifetime, but it is the work of the greatness of this Kundalini and Paramchaitanya. I am Myself surprised by this Paramchaitanya and don’t know what it is doing, although it is My Shakti, but you are witnessing that this Paramchaitanya is creating My photographs of various types and is showing varieties of miracles, almost fifty types of miracles.  .......

So many experiences are still felt because this Paramchaitanya comes in the form of blessings. Everywhere it will bless you, will give you love, will take care of you in every way. Everything is there, but it has moved fast. I Myself can’t understand how it does so much work in a place like America, where people don’t have any sensibility at all in the field of spirituality. One time, there was a big program in such a big hall, people had no place to sit, and people got their realisation in five minutes, just in five minutes. Then the same thing happened in Los Angeles. I was so surprised that the people there are such fools, but it happened with them. Then in Canada, there also they got their realisation in five minutes. Then we went further. There also people got realisation in five minutes. I could not understand what it is and why it is so. The forms of Paramchaitanya have extended so far, its varieties are so many, that no one can understand what the matter is and how it takes place. If somebody asks Me, I won’t be able to say.   ..............

It is that very Paramchaitanya. Now, let us say it is My Shakti only, but I don’t know My Shakti. It happened in this way. It is happening so fast that I can’t understand what it will do next and what its next move will be. I mean to say, this power is so eager that in this world, whatever the changes, it is a global transformation. There is no delay in doing that, but those who will join it, and those who will work for it, only they will get it.  ......

And all of you should fully understand this Shakti, its mode of working, and understand it and utilise it accordingly. If you start utilising this power, you can do all kinds of work. If anyone is bothering you, you can give a bandhan to him. For doing any work, you can give a bandhan. Only a bandhan. What do you do in a bandhan is that the Shakti that is flowing inside your being, you wind up that Shakti. And if you have any question, or any problem, you can give a bandhan to that. That Shakti will work out the problem. You have got this Shakti. You are so powerful. If you utilise it, your success will be limitless. But a human being is lost. Even after getting realisation, unless a human being considers it something special, it will be difficult for Sahaj Yoga to spread.   .........

I have told them how I came here by chance and found somebody trying to use mesmerism on people. That was the time, I decided, we had to open the Sahasrara, and that is what I did in a very Sahaj manner. I must say that I just desired that now it would be opened. And that is all. I didn’t do anything, and once the Sahasrara was opened, I was amazed to find out how human beings can give realisation to others. Even human beings can give collective realisation. Of course, they have to use the photograph; we can say it is Niralambha, only. Niralambha means that we should not have any Alambhan, depending on anything, but it is Nira, Niralambhan. I am Nira. This is a very confusing word. But this is what it is. You have to use My photograph.

錫呂瑪塔吉回憶打開頂輪的種種（二）

*** 錫呂瑪塔吉回憶打開頂輪的種種（二）***

首先我在一位老太太身上開始實驗，她對我有很強的信心，她獲得了自覺，我更有信心了，因為至少有一個人獲得自覺了。我當時仍是懷疑在這個黑暗期，是否容易給人類自覺，但是當一個人獲得自覺，我就知道許多人獲得自覺是可能的。當然假如可以集體地給予一群人自覺，那麼就更好、更快了，但以我對人類的了解，我知道仍有許多工作要做，才可能集體地大規模給自覺。因為每一個人都有各自不同的問題，這使整個狀況更為複雜，但是若他們當中有人的昆達里尼被喚醒了，那麼對其他人都會有益處、有幫助。在歷史上從未有人如此做過，我是經由許多的深度靜坐，才能大規模地給自覺。

當我轉動我的昆達里尼，用它去一再地影響周遭的人時，没有人知道我内在有這個大能，也没有人知道我是誰，我的家人不知道，我的親戚也不知道，我也從未告訴過任何人，因為人的腦袋不太容易了解這些事，人類有許多的自我。我覺得困難之處不在於人類的眼睛看不見，而是一種無知、無明(ignorance)，一種巨大的無明累積。那要如何來向人類傳遞這些精微的知識呢？誰可以來告訴他們呢？在老太太的身上我發現了一個現象：當她的昆達里尼被喚醒時，她有(一些)精微的知識，而且在這些精微知識的幫助下，她開始可以了解我。

在她之後有12個人獲得自覺，他們得到自覺時都很訝異，因為他們的眼睛都有亮光，而且他們開始了解許多事，他們開始經歷許多内在的奇特轉化。最初我個別地在這十二人的每一個輪穴賣力工作，我想讓他們更強壯。雖然他們的昆達里尼已被喚醒，但他們必須藉著靜坐，來使昆達里尼走到正確的方向，且使它穩定下來。不久，我教他們集中注意力在我的昆達里尼，他們就進入無思慮的狀態，在此狀態下他們開始靜坐。在他們進入無思慮的狀態時，他們對我感到很強烈的認同。不久，他們的無思慮狀態就愈來愈多。

印度人比較容易就獲得自覺，因為選擇在印度出生的人都比較宗教取向，他們的生活也比較正常，不必很辛苦工作，所以一下子就可以獲得自覺。在印度之外就比較難，有時我的手都會很疲累，提升他們的昆達里尼就如同抬起一座山那麼艱辛，而且往往嘭一聲又掉回來。他們問的問題也都很奇怪、瑣碎，往往都是一些世俗的問題。當我回答問題時，他們又很訝異，為何我有這些知識、我是如何得知這些呢？他們一再檢視我，因為他們有太多的自我。

之後在倫敦，開始有七個練習者，都像是嬉皮及吸毒者，但他們都轉變成霎哈嘉練習者。從某一方面來說，這給我很多的支持，讓我更有信心，因為學了霎哈嘉之後，人們是會放棄毒品，(我們都知道)要幫助毒瘾者戒斷，其實是非常困難的，(但這幾個人都自然地做到了)。除此之外，我也得到一些經驗，即最艱難的人，只要他們有意願、去祈求，他們也可以連上宇宙的大能，也可以獲得真我的知識。他們只是單純地去請求，就可以獲得自覺。之後我常告訴每一個人，就單純地在心中去請求獲得自覺，這對得到自覺是非常有幫助。

So first of all, I experimented with a very old lady who had much faith in Me, and she got her Self-realisation. Then I was confident. I thought that at least one person has got realisation. In this Kali Yuga, is it easy to give realisation to anyone? When one person got realisation, I thought that it was possible that many would also get it. And it was easy to give realisation collectively. It was easy to give realisation to one person. It was easy to pay attention to one person. But for the collective realisation, whatever I had experienced about human beings, there was still some more work to be done. What should be done when I find that somebody has a bad quality, or has some trouble, or is conditioned? Because one person has one problem, another has a different problem, and a third person has a third problem. If collective work is to be done, just with one awakening, everybody should benefit. It should be helpful to everyone. Right now, because of the shortage of time, I cannot make you understand that till this time, this collective realisation work, which had not been done before by anyone, was done by Me with the help of a lot of deep meditation.

As I was rotating my Kundalini all around, using my Kundalini repeatedly to influence others, nobody knew what powers I had inside Me. Who am I? Nobody knew. Nobody in our house knew. And nobody knew in my in-laws’ house, either. In my parents’ house, too, nobody knew. And I never told anybody, because it is not easy to put it into their heads, because Man’s brain is such that it is very difficult to thrust any thought into it. Everybody is egoistic; everybody feels self-important. Now, who will tell them? As Kabir has said, ‘How shall I make the whole world understand?’ I feel it is not blindness but ignorance, absolutely a huge collection of ignorance. And how to transmit this subtle knowledge?

When the Kundalini of that lady, that Devi, got awakened, I noticed that she had subtle knowledge, and she started understanding Me with the help of that subtle knowledge. After that, twelve people got realisation, and after getting realisation, they were surprised because their eyes sparkled absolutely. And they started seeing everything. They started experiencing some strange change inside their being. In the beginning, I worked on all the chakras individually of the first twelve people, because elements give strength to its foundation and we have to struggle hard to make it strong. Although their Kundalini had awakened, you know that even after the Kundalini is awakened, we have to meditate to take it into the right direction, and it has to settle down. I worked very hard for these twelve people. As a result, I understood that if the twelve behaviors of these twelve people were somehow synchronized, how can the power of the enlightened soul be organized? Just as we thread flowers into a needle, how can that totality be obtained? How can the different behaviors of these twelve people be synchronized into one common formula? And when they got their realisation, I saw that, by and by, all of them were becoming integrated internally. I had to work even a little harder. But I realized that to tell somebody, to tell people in general about it, was not so easy. It is not for the people to understand. Then a program was organised in Jahangir Hall. There I said, ‘How many rakshasas have come, and how many rakshasnis have come? What will they do?’ Everybody got frightened. They started saying that if Mataji talked this way, how would anyone help Her? All of them advised Me not to talk in that manner; otherwise there would be great problems. I told them, ‘Till now, my killer is not born, and you should be free from worry.’

By and by, I told these small streams inside everybody and small rivers of Kundalini, ‘You concentrate on My Kundalini.’ And they became thoughtless the moment they started to meditate. And the moment they became thoughtless, they felt that they had a lot of identity with Me. By and by, there was more and more thoughtless awareness. By and by, there was more focus on collectivity. This I saw first of all in Jahangir Hall. Hindustanis, Indians, have taken birth on this land because they are very religious-minded. They must have lived a noble life, because in India we don’t have to work so hard. In no time people would get realisation. Of course, in the beginning it took a little more time. But in foreign countries, hands get tired. To raise someone’s Kundalini is just like lifting a mountain, and then it falls down with a bump. It rises up and then falls down with a bump. And there is a great difficulty with collectivity, asking weird questions, this and that, and all sorts of worldly talk. When I answered their questions, they would get surprised. How does She know all this? How does She have knowledge about all this? They examined Me a lot, because they had lots of ego.

Now, by and by in London, the first time, seven Sahaj yogis came. All of them were like hippies and drug addicts. They transformed into Sahaj yogis. It meant that I got some support, in a way, and I was confident that in Sahaj Yoga people were denouncing drugs.

 It is not so easy to help a drug addict. Out of this, one good experience was gained that even the most difficult person must get connected and must have the knowledge of his own Self, when he desires it. He gets his Self-realisation simply by desiring it. Then I would tell everyone to desire for Self-realisation in their hearts. That helped them to get their Self-realisation.

錫呂瑪塔吉回憶打開頂輪的種種（一）

*** 錫呂瑪塔吉回憶打開頂輪的種種（一）***

前言：錫呂瑪塔吉是在1970年5月5日於那戈爾(Nargol)打開頂輪，這個光明節普祭的談話就是25年後在那戈爾舉行的。錫呂瑪塔吉從為何要打開頂輪談起，一直談到推廣霎哈嘉的過程，是一個濃縮的回憶錄，其中有許多寶貴的資訊。本談話是用印度語講的，本譯文轉譯自英文版。由於文長，分成一、二、三。

譯文：

當年我來到那戈爾是因為一個很奇特的理由。當時有一個很邪惡的假導師在此處舉辦活動營，他傳話給我先生，說我應該來參加。我一點都不喜歡他，但是遵從我先生，所以我去了那戈爾。

5月4日那一天，我坐在樹下看那群人的活動。我很訝異那位假導師給參加者一些咒語，並催眠他們，很多人開始嘶吼、狂叫，有人就像狗一樣吠，有人如獅子般吼叫，我知道那位假導師將那些參加者帶到他們的前世，他是在喚醒他們的潛意識的心智。之前我已經看過許多假導師在玩弄這些技倆，他們從求道者騙取無數的錢財，但是他們内心也充滿恐懼，他們甚至需要僱用帶槍的保鏢來保護自己，假如這些假導師做的是神的工作，他們爲何需要保鏢呢？至於這些可憐的求道者的遭遇，我想這是由於目前是黑暗期(Kali Yuga, 或稱"迦利時期")，唯一的解決方法是打開人類的意識(註一)，人類才有純粹的知識，才可以了解假導師講的並不是真理，去追隨假導師是完全無法得道的。

另外一點我觀察到的是：整個社會中，大家都在從事會導致毁滅的行為，如喝酒、追求女人、追求金錢等，人類為何會如此呢？

當時我面對的是，應該做什麼來解決前述的問題。來到那戈爾之後，我看到這些惡魔在催眠求道者，我了解到除非打開(人類的)頂輪，否則人類不知會沉淪到什麼境地。到了隔天(5月5曰)的清晨，我已經在海邊待了一整個晚上，我是自己一個人，但我感覺很好，没有人干擾我。然後在我的靜坐中，我再次想到："讓頂輪打開吧！"，當我有此願望時，我立即看到我的昆達里尼像一個望遠鏡一般向上射出，還發出"喀喀喀"的聲音，然後我看到外層的昆達里尼一直上升再上升，那顏色就像煉鐵爐中的熔鐵的顏色(譯者：亮橘黃紅色)。它經過每一個輪穴都發出喀喀喀的聲音，然後穿過頭頂的囟門。穿過我的頂輪並不重要，而是我知道從此全世界(人類)的頂輪都會更容易打開了。而且在那時我感到有一種能量降臨我身上，也有一股清涼的風(Cool Breeze)從各方向吹來。至此，我知道我可以開始我的工作，帶著完全的信心，我想開始工作的時機已經來到了。

畢竟没有什麼好害怕的，人們最多不過是笑我、打我，或殺我而已，無論如何這工作必須進行，這是我來到這世上的唯一目的。我必須祈求集體意識(collective consciousness, 註二 )，因為除非人們獲得他們的自覺(Self-realization)，知道他們的真我(Self)，否則不可能達成我的終極目標。

註一：譯者：錫呂瑪塔吉指的應該是打開頂輪後可以連上的無意識(unconscious)，或超越意識(super conscious)，即無所不在的神聖力量。

註二：譯者：集體意識所指即是註一的無所不在的神聖力量。

But when I came to Nargol, due to some strange reasons, a very wicked rakshasa who had set up his camp there sent word to My husband that I should visit his camp. I didn’t like him at all. Even so, I obeyed My husband and went there, and most probably the bungalow I am staying in right now is the same one we were staying in then.

On the previous day, I was sitting under a tree watching their drama, and was so surprised that this person was giving them mantras and mesmerising them. Many people were screaming and shouting; some were barking, and growling like lions. I understood that he was shifting them into their previous lives, and I was nervous to see that he was awakening their subconscious mind. I had seen also these false gurus earlier and observed what they did. People should know what they do and how they do this business. And I noticed one thing, that these people were very frightened. They would have their guns with them and their guards with them. I thought, if they are doing God’s work, why do they need such things? And they were charging limitless money. They looted crores of rupees from people by telling lies. These two things were in my mind. I thought that it was a result of Kali Yuga that such people were still thriving. But the only solution was that when Man’s consciousness awakened, he would have pure knowledge and he would understand that all this was untruth and it was useless to follow such things. The third thing I saw was that in the society I was living in, all the time people were doing all sorts of things that would lead to their destruction; for example, drinking, running after women, and things like that. And they hankered after money. And they didn’t seem to be talking in a natural way. They would talk in a strange manner. They would pose and talk dramatically. I would think, what has happened to Man? Why is he entangled in this drama business and doing wrong things? But whom could I tell? I was all alone.

That time when I came here, the only problem was what should be done. After coming here, when I saw that these rakshasas were mesmerising people, then I understood that if Sahasrara was not somehow opened, God knows where the people would drift to. As a consequence, the followers, the seekers of God, the seekers of truth, God knows where they might go. Then after noticing this, the next day, early in the morning, I was at the sea coast for the full night. I was alone and I felt very good. There was nobody to disturb Me. Then in My meditation, I thought again, ‘Let Sahasrara be opened.’ And as soon as I desired it, that let the Bramharandra of Sahasrara be opened. I saw my Kundalini in My own being, shooting up like a telescope: khat, khat, khat. Its colour was like the combination of all the colours of Diyas (earthen pots) that you have lit here. Then I saw the outer yantra of that Kundalini was rising up and up and up, looking just like the colour of iron when it gets hot in furnace. At every chakra there was a noise ‒ khat, khat, khat ‒ and the Kundalini pierced Bramharandra. My piercing didn’t matter. But I saw that it would now be easier in the universe. And at that time I felt that some power, whatever it was, dawned into My inner being, and a Cool Breeze came from all around Me. Now I understood that there was no harm in starting My work, because whatever complications were there, were over. With full confidence, I thought that now the time had come.

After all, what would happen? At best, the people would kill Me, beat Me; at best they would laugh at Me, make fun of Me, and after that they would kill everybody. There is nothing to be scared of. This has to be done. I have come to this world for this purpose only. Because I have to invoke collective consciousness, I thought that unless people get their Self-realisation and know their own Self, it is impossible to achieve My goal. We may do other things, but it is all useless.

儍瓜還是瘋子

*** 儍瓜還是瘋子  ***

前言：這是1995年 Shri Mataji 在紐約對美國練習者的談話。美國一直有領導人紛爭的戲碼，Shri Mataji 甚至說美國在這方面是全球所屈一指的。本譯文特別摘譯談話中關於這部分的片段，此談話有一些十分精彩、發人深省的說詞。

譯文：

美國集體遭遇了許多困難，其實都是一些無關重要的小事，說穿了，就是愚笨！其中的一項就是領導人之爭，這是你可以想到的最愚笨的紛爭。當我說你是一個領導人(leader)，這不過是在愚弄你而已！"領導人"只不過是一個虚構的概念而已，但是人們卻不相信。假如我任命你當領導人，你應當知道我只是在試驗你，同時也試驗那些試圖玩權力遊戲、想當領導人的練習者，除此之外完全没有什麼！其實没有任何人可以說是霎哈嘉的領導者，只不過我需要有一些人可以當連絡、傳達訊息的管道，所以我認命了各地的負責人。這並不表示這些負責人、領導人可以上天堂、可以有皇室的禮遇，絕對不是這樣，所有人的待遇都會是一樣的。這些都只是幻相(Maya)而已，但是一些練習者却拚命想當負責人，這讓我感到十分可笑。他們試圖去爬一座山，可是這座山根本就不存在！你到底是要攀爬什麼呢？你到底是要追求什麼呢？你追求的根本就不存在！那有什麼山？你前面有的是平坦大道而已！這也是一種徹徹底底愚笨的表癥！

當你的注意力放在食物、金錢，或是在領導人的權力，這些只會讓你變得愚笨而已！那些在誇耀："我是什麼的負責人！"，這只是在告訴你他是一個愚痴的笨蛋而已！既然你知道負責人只是母親愚弄我們的把戲而已，而你又去誇耀自己是負責人，無異在昭告天下：我是全世界最大的儍瓜！爲什麼你需要去誇耀、去吹嘘呢？這種誇耀的行為若非儍瓜的表癥，就是一個精神失常的瘋子而已！

面對這樣子的人、這樣子的宣稱，你應該了解的是：他是一個有認証的瘋子，或有認証的儍瓜。當這種愚笨進入你的腦袋裡，你再也不是一個霎哈嘉瑜伽士，你的靈性將離你而去，你就等待衰敗及死亡了。縱使你没有這樣出來宣稱，而只是這樣想，那也不是很好，表示你没有走在正確的道路上。

後記：其實這也是全球集體普遍的問題，請也參考 : ''蓋起你的耳朶，也遠離講你的導師壞話的那個人''（http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/hugo-maha-mataji-ashram-thomas-yogi.html ）及 "歷史上誤闖霎哈嘉的三隻狐狸"   (  http://sahajataiwan.blogspot.co.nz/2017/03/blog-post.html  )

註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri Mataji 在Devi Shakti Puja的談話1995-10-08。JSM ! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。

Now the pettiness with which we suffer can come in many categories but is nothing but stupidity. One of them is that, this idea of leadership; which is the greatest stupidity you could ever think of. I am just befooling you by saying “You are a leader. You are a leader”. Nothing it’s just a myth, you don’t believe Me in that. If I call you the leader, you must know that Mother is trying to test me and others also those who are trying this power game of becoming leaders, nothing at the back. There is no one who you can really say is the leader of Sahaja Yoga except that I had to have some people to communicate so we got them leaders. It doesn’t mean that if they become leaders, they go to heaven; they will get a right royal reception, nothing like that. All will be going in the same manner. See this is all created by Maya. Now people are striving to become leader, and I really feel like laughing. Those who will try are climbing a mountain, which doesn’t exist. Where are you climbing? Where are you going? It doesn’t exist. There’s no mountain, it’s all straightforward road. So this is also a sign of complete stupidity.  ........

So now, the attention if it is on food, attention if it is on money, attention if it is on so called power of leadership and all that know that it will make you stupid. Anybody who boasts, “I am the leader of this”. All right, all right, very good! You’ve known one like him you see? That what you have to react because if you say that I am the leader of this and this, itself shows that you are a stupid fool, isn’t it? Because if you know it’s stupidity, all this Mother is making a fool out of us, why should you say, “I am the greatest fool?” Why should you yourself boast of yourself? Even any boasting is a sign of a stupid fool you know? Or a mad lunatic person.

Once our Prime Minister went to one lunatic asylum and he met one who was sane to talk to. So he asked him, “Who are you?”

He said, “I am Jawaharlal Nehru”

He said, “Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?”

He said, “I am the one who was the, who is the Prime Minister of India”

“Aahh! You’ll be all right. I used to say the same. You stay here for five-six months you’ll be all right”.

So all such bombastic talking those people who do, you should just know I am telling you certified lunatics or certified fools. And once this goes, this stupidity into your head you will be no more a Sahaja Yogi, no more. Whole spirituality will come out and you’ll be left high and dry. Anyone who boasts like that is worse but even if you think like that is no good, not on the proper lines.