七月十四日，星期日
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中文
（由弟子S·E·瓦尔多小姐记录）
1895年7月14日，星期日。
在印度，哲学意味着通过它来认识神，是宗教的理性基础；因此没有任何印度教徒会追问宗教与哲学之间的联系。
具体、概括、抽象——这是哲学的三个阶段。万物在最高抽象层面上达成一致的便是"一"。在宗教中，我们首先有符号和形式；其次是神话；最后是哲学。前两者是暂时的；哲学是一切的根基，其余的不过是在追求终极的过程中的阶梯。
在西方宗教中，人们认为没有《新约》和基督就不可能有宗教。犹太教中对于摩西和先知们也存在类似的信念，因为这些宗教仅仅依赖于神话。真正的宗教，最高的宗教，超越了神话；它绝不能停留在神话之上。现代科学实际上使宗教的根基更加坚固。整个宇宙是一体的，这在科学上是可以证明的。形而上学家所说的"存在"，物理学家称之为"物质"，但二者之间并无真正的冲突，因为两者本是一体。虽然原子是不可见的、不可思议的，但其中蕴含着宇宙的全部力量和潜能。这正是吠檀多学者论及真我（Atman）时所说的。所有宗派实际上不过是在用不同的言辞表达同一件事。
吠檀多与现代科学都假设了一个自我演化的因。一切因皆在其自身之中。以陶匠制壶为例：陶匠是主因，泥土是质料因，轮盘是工具因；但真我兼具三者。真我既是因也是显现。吠檀多学者说宇宙不是真实的，它只是表象。自然是通过无明所见的神。泛神论者说神已变成自然或这个世界；不二论（Advaita）者则肯定神以这个世界的形式显现，但他并不是这个世界。
我们只能将经验认知为一种心理过程，既是心灵中的事实，也是大脑中的印记。我们不能推动大脑前进或后退，但我们可以推动心灵；心灵能够延伸跨越所有时间——过去、现在和未来；因此心灵中的事实是永恒保存的。一切事实已经在心灵中被概括化了，心灵是遍在的。[6]*
康德的伟大成就在于发现"时间、空间和因果是思维的模式"，但吠檀多在数千年前就已教导了这一点，并称之为"摩耶"。叔本华仅仅立足于理性，对吠陀进行理性化阐释……商羯罗则坚持维护吠陀的正统性。
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"树性"或"树"的概念，从众多树木中发现出来的便是知识，而最高的知识是"一"……
人格神是宇宙的最终概括，只是模糊的，而非清晰明确、具有哲学性的……
统一性是自我演化的，万物从中涌现。
物理科学是为了发现事实，形而上学是将花朵编织成花束的丝线。每一种抽象都是形而上的；即使在树根处施肥也涉及一个抽象的过程……
宗教包含具体的、更加概括的以及终极的统一。不要执着于细节。要达到原则，达到那个"一"……
魔鬼是黑暗的机器，天使是光明的机器；但两者都是机器。唯有人是活的。打破机器，获得平衡[7]*，人便能得到自由。这是唯一一个人能完成其解脱（Moksha）的世界。
"真我所择之人"——这是真实的。拣选论是真实的，但将它置于内在。作为一种外在的宿命论教义，它是可怕的。
English
(RECORDED BY MISS S. E. WALDO, A DISCIPLE)
SUNDAY, July 14, 1895.
Philosophy in India means that through which we see God, the rationale of religion; so no Hindu could ever ask for a link between religion and philosophy.
Concrete, generalised, abstract are the three stages in the process of philosophy. The highest abstraction in which all things agree is the One. In religion we have first, symbols and forms; next, mythologies; and last, philosophy. The first two are for the time being; philosophy is the underlying basis of all, and the others are only stepping stones in the struggle to reach the Ultimate.
In Western religion the idea is that without the New Testament and Christ there could be no religion. A similar belief exists in Judaism with regard to Moses and the Prophets, because these religions are dependent upon mythology only. Real religion, the highest, rises above mythology; it can never rest upon that. Modern science has really made the foundations of religion strong. That the whole universe is one, is scientifically demonstrable. What the metaphysicians call "being", the physicist calls "matter", but there is no real fight between the two, for both are one. Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. That is exactly what the Vedantist says of Atman. All sects are really saying the same thing in different words.
Vedanta and modern science both posit a self-evolving Cause. In Itself are all the causes. Take for example the potter shaping a pot. The potter is the primal cause, the clay the material cause, and the wheel the instrumental cause; but the Atman is all three. Atman is cause and manifestation too. The Vedantist says the universe is not real, it is only apparent. Nature is God seen through nescience. The Pantheists say, God has become nature or this world; the Advaitists affirm that God is appearing as this world, but He is not this world.
We can only know experience as a mental process, a fact in the mind as well as a mark in the brain. We cannot push the brain back or forward, but we can the mind; it can stretch over all time — past, present, and future; and so facts in the mind are eternally preserved. All facts are already generalised in mind, which is omnipresent.[6]*
Kant's great achievement was the discovery that "time, space, and causation are modes of thought," but Vedanta taught this ages ago and called it "Maya." Schopenhauer stands on reason only and rationalises the Vedas. . . . Shankara maintained the orthodoxy of the Vedas.
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"Treeness" or the idea of "tree", found out among trees is knowledge, and the highest knowledge is One. . . .
Personal God is the last generalization of the universe, only hazy, not clear-cut and philosophic. . . .
Unity is self-evolving, out of which everything comes.
Physical science is to find out facts, metaphysics is the thread to bind the flowers into a bouquet. Every abstraction is metaphysical; even putting manure at the root of a tree involves a process of abstraction. . . .
Religion includes the concrete, the more generalized and the ultimate unity. Do not stick to particularisations. Get to the principle, to the One. . . .
Devils are machines of darkness, angels are machines of light; but both are machines. Man alone is alive. Break the machine, strike the balance[7]* and then man can become free. This is the only world where man can work out his salvation.
"Whom the Self chooses" is true. Election is true, but put it within. As an external and fatalistic doctrine, it is horrible.
文本来自Wikisource公共领域。原版由阿德瓦伊塔修道院出版。