七月二十三日，星期二
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中文
（由弟子S·E·瓦尔多小姐记录）
一八九五年七月二十三日，星期二。（薄伽梵歌，业瑜伽）
要通过工作达到解脱（Moksha），就应投入工作，但不抱欲望，不期求结果。这样的工作引向知识，知识继而带来解放。在尚未证知之前就放弃工作，只会导致痛苦。为真我而做的工作不会带来束缚。既不要从工作中贪求快乐，也不要畏惧痛苦。工作的是心意和身体，不是"我"。不断地如此告诫自己，并去体悟它。尽量不要意识到你在工作。
将一切作为祭祀或供奉献给主。身处世间，却不属于世间，如同莲叶——根扎于淤泥之中，却始终保持洁净。无论他人如何对待你，都要将你的爱施予一切众生。一个盲人看不见色彩，那么除非恶存在于我们自身之中，我们又怎能看到恶呢？我们将外在所见与内在所有相比较，据此作出判断。如果我们是纯净的，我们便无法看到不净。不净也许存在，但对我们而言并不存在。在每一个男人、女人和孩子身上只看到神；通过内在之光（antarjyotis）去看它，而一旦看到了它，我们便再也看不到其他任何东西。不要贪恋这个世界，因为你所欲求的，你就会得到。唯独寻求主，只寻求主。力量越大，束缚越深，恐惧越多。我们比蚂蚁要恐惧和痛苦多少倍！从这一切中走出来，归向主。去寻求造物者的科学，而非被造之物的科学。
"我是行者，亦是行为本身。""能遏制欲望与愤怒之洪流者，方为伟大的瑜伽行者。"
"唯有通过修行与无执，我们方能征服心意。"……
我们印度的祖先静坐下来，思索神与道德，因此我们也拥有用于同样目的的头脑；但在争名逐利的匆忙中，我们很可能会再次失去它们。
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身体本身具有一定的自我疗愈能力，许多事物能够激发这种疗愈力，例如心理状态、药物或运动等。只要我们还受身体状况的困扰，我们就还需要物质手段的帮助。直到我们摆脱了对神经系统的束缚，才能不再受其支配。
存在着潜意识，但它处于意识之下，而意识只是人体组织的一个部分。哲学是关于心意的猜测。宗教建立在感官接触之上，建立在"见"之上——这是知识的唯一基础。凡与超意识心相接触的都是事实。圣者（Aptas）是那些已经"感知"到宗教的人。证明方法是：如果你遵循他们的方法，你也将看到。每一门科学都需要其特有的方法和工具。一位天文学家不可能用厨房里所有的锅碗瓢盆来向你展示土星的光环。他需要一架望远镜。同样，要看到宗教的伟大事实，就必须遵循那些已经看到的人的方法。科学越伟大，研究它的手段就越多样。在我们来到这个世界之前，神已经提供了出离的途径；所以我们所要做的一切就是找到那个途径。但不要在方法上争执不休。只着眼于证悟，选择你所能找到的最适合自己的方法。吃芒果吧，让其他人去争那只篮子。见到基督，你就是基督徒了。其余一切都是空谈；少说为妙。
信息造就使者。主造就殿堂；而非相反。
学习吧，直到"主的荣光从你的面容上放射出来"，正如它曾从施韦达凯图（Shvetaketu）的面容上放射出来一样。
猜测对猜测只会引起争论；但若谈论你自身的体验，没有人心能够抵挡。保罗正是在违背自己意志的情况下，因亲身的证悟而皈依的。
星期二下午。（餐后有一段简短的谈话，斯瓦米在其中说道：）
迷妄创造迷妄。迷妄创造自身，又毁灭自身，这就是摩耶（Maya）。一切所谓的知识，既然建立在摩耶之上，便是一个恶性循环，终有一天那知识本身也会自我毁灭。"放开那根绳子"，迷妄便无法触及真我。当我们抓住那根绳子——将自己与摩耶等同——她便对我们拥有了力量。放开它，只做见证者，那么你就能不受干扰地欣赏这宇宙的画卷。
English
(RECORDED BY MISS S. E. WALDO, A DISCIPLE)
TUESDAY, July 23, 1895. (Bhagavad-Gita, Karma-Yoga)
To attain liberation through work, join yourself to work but without desire, looking for no result. Such work leads to knowledge, which in turn brings emancipation. To give up work before you know, leads to misery. Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.
Do all as a sacrifice or offering to the Lord. Be in the world, but not of it, like the lotus leaf whose roots are in the mud but which remains always pure. Let your love go to all, whatever they do to you. A blind man cannot see colour, so how can we see evil unless it is in us? We compare what we see outside with what we find in ourselves and pronounce judgment accordingly. If we are pure, we cannot see impurity. It may exist, but not for us. See only God in every man, woman and child; see it by the antarjyotis, "inner light", and seeing that, we can see naught else. Do not want this world, because what you desire you get. Seek the Lord and the Lord only. The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear. How much more afraid and miserable are we than the ant! Get out of it all and come to the Lord. Seek the science of the maker and not that of the made.
"I am the doer and the deed." "He who can stem the tide of lust and anger is a great Yogi."
"Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind." . . .
Our Hindu ancestors sat down and thought on God and morality, and so have we brains to use for the same ends; but in the rush of trying to get gain, we are likely to lose them again.
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The body has in itself a certain power of curing itself and many things can rouse this curative power into action, such as mental conditions, or medicine, or exercise, etc. As long as we are disturbed by physical conditions, so long we need the help of physical agencies. Not until we have got rid of bondage to the nerves, can we disregard them.
There is the unconscious mind, but it is below consciousness, which is just one part of the human organism. Philosophy is guess-work about the mind. Religion is based upon sense contact, upon seeing, the only basis of knowledge. What comes in contact with the superconscious mind is fact. Âptas are those who have "sensed" religion. The proof is that if you follow their method, you too will see. Each science requires its own particular method and instruments. An astronomer cannot show you the rings of Saturn by the aid of all the pots and pans in the kitchen. He needs a telescope. So, to see the great facts of religion, the methods of those who have already seen must be followed. The greater the science the more varied the means of studying it. Before we came into the world, God provided the means to get out; so all we have to do is to find the means. But do not fight over methods. Look only for realisation and choose the best method you can find to suit you. Eat the mangoes and let the rest quarrel over the basket. See Christ, then you will be a Christian. All else is talk; the less talking the better.
The message makes the messenger. The Lord makes the temple; not vice versa.
Learn until "the glory of the Lord shines through your face", as it shone through the face of Shvetaketu.
Guess against guess makes fight; but talk of what you have been, and no human heart can resist it. Paul was converted against his will by realisation.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON. (After dinner there was a short conversation in the course of which the Swami said:)
Delusion creates delusion. Delusion creates itself and destroys itself, such is Maya. All knowledge (so-called), being based on Maya, is a vicious circle, and in time that very knowledge destroys itself. "Let go the rope", delusion cannot touch the Atman. When we lay hold of the rope — identify ourselves with Maya — she has power over us. Let go of it, be the Witness only, then you can admire the picture of the universe undisturbed.
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