*** 慈悲 (Compassion) ***
有一個故事是有關住在印度Maharashtra
的一個聖人。在那個時代人們用一種叫Kavad的容器來裝水，然後一路千里迢迢將水帶到Gujarat這地方，將水獻給供奉錫呂克里希納(Shri Krishna)的寺廟。這種(像朝山的)儀式被視為對錫呂克里希納很大的尊敬與順服(surrendering)。那個聖人也和一般人一樣用Kavad裝水，從Maharashtra 他住的村莊走了一個月才抵達寺廟的山腳下。在山腳下他看到一隻非常口渴、快要渴死的驢子，他就將水給驢子喝。
旁人都說："
哇！你帶著水走了許多天，走了這麼多里路，就是為了將水獻給這山上的神祇，而現在你卻將水給的這隻驢子喝。"
他回答說："你們不知道神特地從山上下來接受我的水嗎？祂不希望我走上山去！"
你看，這就是聖人行事的態度，對一個已得到自覺的人，他的慈悲心應該要像這樣，有十分慷慨的本質。假如你不慷慨、表現出很吝嗇、總是擔心你的錢、總是想節省錢，那麼你不是一個成熟的霎哈嘉練習者，絕對不是！而且這些錢也不可能帶給你任何快樂。吝嗇是完全和靈(Spirit)的本質相反的，靈是非常慷慨大方的，它絕不會儘量去節省東西，或去欺騙他人，或去偷東西，這是毫無疑問的，因為這種人已無任何殘留的貪念(greed)。因為完全沒有任何貪念，所以這種自覺的靈不會有貪婪的行為，也會變得十分慷慨。
註一：江瑞凱摘譯自Shri
Mataji在錫呂克里希納普祭(Shri
Krishna Puja)談話2000-08-20，也參考1995-07-16的談話。JSM
! 敬請霎哈嘉兄弟姊妹們指正。
There is
a story about a saint in India, in Maharashtra. So they all used to take water
in a container, called as `Kavad’ and would take it all the way to Gujarat to a temple of Shri Krishna. That was regarded as a
great, I can say, surrendering to Shri Krishna. So that saint also carried the
water in the container called `Kavad’. All the way he carried it, from his
village in Maharashtra and when he reached the temple at the foothill of that
temple, he saw a donkey very thirsty, dying out of thirst. So he gave that
water to that donkey. Everybody said, “Imagine, you have brought this water
from miles together, for days together to be poured on the deity here and now
you have given it to this donkey?” He said: “you don’t know God has come all
the way down here to take the water”.
See the attitude of that he took. So for a self-realized person the compassion should be like this, of very generous nature. If you are not generous, if you are miserly, always worried about your money and saving of it, then firstly, you are not a matured Sahaja Yogi. You are not. Apart from that, this kind of money will never give you any happiness. Miserliness is against the Spirit. Spirit is extremely generous, extremely generous. It never strives to save something or cheat people or steal something. It is out of question. Because there is no greed left in him. There is no greed at all and that is why such a person, who is a realized soul, cannot be greedy. Has to be extremely generous.(2000-08-20)
See the attitude of that he took. So for a self-realized person the compassion should be like this, of very generous nature. If you are not generous, if you are miserly, always worried about your money and saving of it, then firstly, you are not a matured Sahaja Yogi. You are not. Apart from that, this kind of money will never give you any happiness. Miserliness is against the Spirit. Spirit is extremely generous, extremely generous. It never strives to save something or cheat people or steal something. It is out of question. Because there is no greed left in him. There is no greed at all and that is why such a person, who is a realized soul, cannot be greedy. Has to be extremely generous.(2000-08-20)
I had
told you a story about a saint who was to take to… water for the Deity in Gujarat and he walked one month to go there with a pitcher
of water. And then at the… because it was a very high mountain on which this
Deity was, and he reached at the foothill. There he found a little donkey dying
of thirst so he poured all the water for that donkey. So those who were with
him, they asked, “What are you doing? You brought it all the way, and why are
you putting (pouring?) it for
this donkey?” He said, “You don’t know? The God has come all the way down, just
to meet me here. He doesn’t want me to climb up.” (1995-07-16)
