六月二十九日,星期六
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中文
(由弟子S·E·瓦尔多小姐记录)
一八九五年六月二十九日,星期六。(今晨斯瓦米手持一部薄伽梵歌(Gita)前来。)
克里希纳(Krishna),"灵魂之主",对迦尔纳或弗里沙说话,后者乃"真理与法(Dharma)的化身"(即布施婆罗门之人,言说真理之人)。"美德之原野"(即战场)就是这个世界;五位兄弟(代表正义)与另外一百位兄弟(代表我们所珍爱却不得不与之抗争的一切)作战;最英勇的兄弟迦尔纳(一切品质的主宰者)是统帅。我们必须与一切感官享乐、与我们最为执着的事物作战,方能抵达般度族一方。迦尔纳代表一个在克里希纳身上也激发了瑜伽(Yoga)的人,而后克里希纳将此教义传授给阿周那。迦尔纳还代表一个不得不与自己的家族作战,却为兄弟们的胜利牺牲一切的人。他要举起武器对抗自己的兄弟,这何其艰难。
克里希纳做一切事却无任何执着;他在世间,却不属于世间。"做一切工作,但不要执着;为工作本身而工作,绝不为你自己。"
自由永远不可能是名与相的真实属性;名与相是我们(器皿)由之制成的黏土;如此一来它便是有限的、不自由的,因此自由永远不可能是关系性存在的真实属性。一只器皿永远不能作为器皿说"我是自由的";唯有当它放弃一切关于形相的观念,才能获得自由。整个宇宙不过是真我(Atman)的种种变化,同一曲调因变化而可以聆听;有时会出现不和谐之音,但它们只会使随后的和谐更加完美。在宇宙的旋律中,三个理念格外突出——自由、力量与平等。
如果你的自由伤害了他人,你在那里便不是自由的。你不可伤害他人。
弥尔顿说:"软弱即是痛苦。"行动与承受苦难不可分割地联系在一起。(往往,笑得最多的人也是受苦最深的人。)"你有权工作,却无权享有工作的果实。"
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从物质层面看,恶念就是致病的细菌。
每一个念头都是一记小锤击,敲打在我们身体这块铁块上,将它锻造成我们希望它成为的样子。
我们是宇宙间一切善念的继承者,只要我们向它们敞开自己。
书就在我们每个人之中。愚者啊,你难道听不到吗?在你自己的心中,日日夜夜都在吟唱那永恒的音乐——"萨奇达南达,索汉,索汉"——存在-知识-极乐之绝对,我即是彼,我即是彼。
一切知识的源泉就在我们每个人之中,在蚂蚁之中如同在最高的天使之中。真正的宗教只有一个,但我们却为形式、象征和图说争论不休。千年至福之境已然存在,只为那些发现它的人而存在;是我们自己迷失了,然后以为世界迷失了。
圆满的力量在这世间不会有任何活动;它只是存在,并不行动。
真正的圆满只有一个,而相对的圆满则必然是多样的。
English
(RECORDED BY MISS S. E. WALDO, A DISCIPLE)
SATURDAY, June 29, 1895. (The Swami came this morning with a Gita in his hand.)
Krishna, the "Lord of souls", talks to Karna or Vrishâ, "the embodiment of truth and Dharma" (one who donates to the Brahmins, one who speaks the truth). The "field of virtue" (the battlefield) is this world; the five brothers (representing righteousness) fight the hundred other brothers (all that we love and have to contend against); the most heroic brother, Karna(the master of all qualities), is the general. We have to fight all sense-delights, the things to which we are most attached, to come to the Pandavas. Karna represents a human being who stimulated Yoga in Krishna also and then Krishna preached this lesson to Arjuna. Karna also represents a human being who had to fight his own family and yet he sacrificed his everything for their brothers' victory. He was to raise weapons against his own brothers which seemed difficult.
Krishna did everything but without any attachment; he was in the world, but not of it. "Do all work but without attachment; work for work's sake, never for yourself."
Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free. The whole universe is only the Self with variations, the one tune made bearable by variation; sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In the universal melody three ideas stand out — freedom, strength, and sameness.
If your freedom hurts others, you are not free there. You must not hurt others.
"To be weak is to be miserable", says Milton. Doing and suffering are inseparably joined. (Often, too, the man who laughs most is the one who suffers most.) "To work you have the right, not to the fruits thereof."
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Evil thoughts, looked at materially, are the disease bacilli.
Each thought is a little hammer blow on the lump of iron which our bodies are, manufacturing out of it what we want it to be.
We are heirs to all the good thoughts of the universe, if we open ourselves to them.
The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music — Sachchidânanda, soham, soham — Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He.
The fountain of all knowledge is in every one of us, in the ant as in the highest angel. Real religion is one, but we quarrel with the forms, the symbols, the illustrations. The millennium exists already for those who find it; we have lost ourselves and then think the world is lost.
Perfect strength will have no activity in this world; it only is, it does not act.
While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
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