智慧与业
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中文
最伟大的力量来源于思想的力量。元素越精微，其力量越强大。思想的无声力量甚至能影响远方之人，因为心念既是一又是多。宇宙是一张蛛网，心念便是蜘蛛。
宇宙等同于一个宇宙大存在的显现。祂通过我们的感官被感知，便是宇宙。这就是幻（Maya）。所以世界是幻象，即对真实的不完美观照，一种半遮半掩的启示，正如清晨的太阳只是一个红色的球。因此一切邪恶和罪行不过是软弱，是对善的不完美的观照。
一条直线无限延伸就成为一个圆。对善的追寻回归到真我。我就是整个奥秘，就是神。我是一个身体，低级的自我；我也是宇宙的主宰。
为什么人应该有道德并保持纯洁？因为这能加强他的意志。一切揭示真实本性从而加强意志的事物都是道德的。一切相反的事物都是不道德的。标准因国家而异，因个人而异。人必须从对法律、对言词等的奴役状态中恢复过来。我们现在没有意志的自由，但当我们获得自由时就会有。出离就是放弃世间。通过感官，愤怒来了，悲伤来了。只要出离尚未到来，自我与驱动它的激情就是分离的。最终它们合为一体，人立刻变成了一个动物。让出离之感充满你的身心。
我曾经有过一个身体，出生、挣扎、死亡：多么可怕的幻觉！竟然以为自己被禁锢在一个身体中，为了解脱（Moksha）而哭泣！
但出离是否要求我们都成为苦行者？那谁来帮助他人？出离不是苦行。所有的乞丐都是基督吗？贫穷不是神圣的同义词；常常恰恰相反。出离是心灵的事。它如何到来？在沙漠中，当我口渴时，我看到了一个湖泊。它在一幅美丽的风景之中。四周环绕着树木，树木的倒影可以在水中看到。但整个东西证明是海市蜃楼。然后我知道了，之前一个月中每天我都看到了它；只是那一天，因为口渴，我才认识到它是不真实的。此后一个月中每天我还会看到它。但我永远不会再把它当作真实的了。所以，当我们到达神的时候，宇宙、身体等等的观念都将消失。之后它还会回来。但下一次我们将知道它是不真实的。
世界的历史就是像佛陀和耶稣这样的人的历史。无执着、无激情者为世界所做的贡献最大。想象耶稣在贫民窟中。他看到了苦难之外的东西，"你们，我的兄弟们，全都是神圣的。"他的工作是平静的。他消除原因。当你确知这一切工作皆是幻象时，你就能够为世界的利益而工作。这种工作越是无意识的就越好，因为那时它就越是超意识的。我们的追寻不是善或恶；但幸福和善比其对立面更接近真理。一个人把一根刺扎进了手指，又用另一根刺将它挑了出来。第一根刺是恶。第二根刺是善。真我就是那超越善恶的和平。宇宙正在融化消解，人正在接近神。有一刻他是真实的——是神。他再次分化——成为先知。在他面前，世界颤栗。一个愚人入睡后醒来仍是愚人——一个无意识的人；而超意识者回来时携带着无限的力量、纯净和爱——神人。这就是超意识状态的用途。
智慧甚至可以在战场上实践。薄伽梵歌就是在战场上宣讲的。心灵有三种状态：活跃的、迟钝的和宁静的。迟钝状态以缓慢的振动为特征；活跃状态以快速的振动为特征；而宁静状态以最强烈的振动为特征。要知道灵魂坐在战车之中。身体是战车；外在的感官是马；心意是缰绳；理智是驭者。人就这样渡过幻之大洋。他超越了。他到达了神。当一个人被感官所控制时，他属于此世。当他控制了感官，他就出离了。
即使是宽恕，如果是出于软弱和被动，也不是真正的宽恕；战斗反而更好。当你能召唤千军万马的天使来取胜时，再去宽恕。克里希纳作为阿周那（Arjuna）的驭者，听到他说"让我们宽恕我们的敌人"时，回答道："你说的是智者的话，但你不是智者，而是懦夫。"如同莲叶生长在水中却不被水沾湿，灵魂在世间也应如此。这是一个战场，杀出一条路来。世间的生命就是一次看见神的尝试。让你的生命成为一种以出离来加强的意志的显现。
我们必须学会有意识地控制我们所有的大脑中枢。第一步是生活的喜悦。苦行是邪恶的。笑比祈祷更好。歌唱。摆脱痛苦。看在上天的份上，不要用它去感染别人。永远不要以为神出售一点幸福和一点不幸。用花朵、图画和香来包围自己。圣者们登上山顶去享受大自然。
第二步是纯洁。
第三步是心灵的完整训练。从虚假中辨别出真理。认识到唯有神是真实的。如果有一刻你认为你不是神，巨大的恐惧就会攫住你。一旦你想到"我即是祂"，巨大的和平与喜悦就会降临到你身上。控制感官。如果有人咒骂我，我仍应在他身上看到神——由于我的软弱，我看到的是一个咒骂者。你向之行善的穷人是在给予你一种特权。他通过祂的慈悲允许你以此方式崇拜祂。
世界的历史就是那些对自己有信心的少数人的历史。那种信心唤醒了内在的神性。你无所不能。你失败只是因为你没有充分努力去显现无限的力量。一旦一个人或一个民族失去了信心，死亡就会降临。
内在有一种神性，它不能被教会教条或恶棍行为所征服。一小群希腊人的声音响彻一切有文明的地方。总会有一些错误。不要悲伤。要有伟大的洞察力。不要想："已经做了的就做了。哦，但愿做得更好！"如果人不是神，人类早就因其连祷文和忏悔而变得疯狂了。
没有人会被遗弃，没有人会被毁灭。一切最终都将臻于完美。日日夜夜说："起来，我的兄弟们！你们是无限的纯洁之海！成为神！显现为神！"
什么是文明？文明就是内在神性的感悟。当你有时间时，对自己反复诵念这些思想，渴望自由。仅此而已。否认一切非神之物。肯定一切是神之物。日日夜夜在心中如此肯定。如此，面纱便日渐稀薄：
"我既非男人也非天使。我没有性别也没有限制。我就是知识本身。我即是祂。我既无愤怒也无仇恨。我既无痛苦也无快乐。我从未有过死亡或出生。因为我是绝对的知识，绝对的极乐。我即是祂，我的灵魂，我即是祂！"
发现自己是无身体的。你从来就没有身体。那全是迷信。将神圣的意识归还给一切穷人、被践踏者、被压迫者和病人。
显然，大约每五百年左右，这种思想的浪潮就会席卷世界。小的浪潮在许多方向升起，但其中一个吞没了所有其他的，并席卷了整个社会。那个浪潮之所以如此，是因为它背后有最多的品格力量。
孔子、摩西和毕达哥拉斯；佛陀、基督、穆罕默德；路德、加尔文和锡克教徒；神智学、招魂术及其类似者——所有这些都只不过是在宣讲人中之神性。
永远不要说人是软弱的。智慧瑜伽（Jnana Yoga）并不比其他道路更好。爱是理想，它不需要对象。爱就是神。所以即使通过虔信（Bhakti），我们也到达了内在的神。我即是祂！一个人若不爱城市、国家、动物、宇宙，怎能工作？理性引向在多样中发现统一。让无神论者和不可知论者去为社会福祉工作。如此，神就来了。
但你必须防范的是：不要扰乱任何人的信仰。因为你必须知道，宗教不在教条之中。宗教在于存在和成为，在于证悟。所有人生来都是偶像崇拜者。最低等的人是动物。最高等的人是完美的。在这两者之间，所有人都必须以声音和色彩、以教条和仪式来思考。
不再是偶像崇拜者的标志是："当你说'我'的时候，身体是否进入了你的思想？如果进入了，那你就仍然是偶像的崇拜者。"宗教根本不是知识的空谈，而是证悟。如果你在想着神，你不过是个傻瓜。无知者通过祈祷和虔诚可以到达哲学家之上。要认识神，不需要任何哲学。我们的责任是不去扰乱他人的信仰。宗教是体验。在一切之上和一切之中，要真诚；认同带来痛苦，因为它带来欲望。于是穷人看到了金子，就将自己与对金子的需要认同起来。做一个见证者。学会永远不去反应。
English
The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is . The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.
The universe equals the phenomena of one Universal Being. He, seen through our senses, is the universe. This is Maya. So the world is illusion, that is, the imperfect vision of the Real, a semi - revelation, even as the sun in the morning is a red ball. Thus all evils and wickedness are but weakness, the imperfect vision of goodness.
A straight line projected infinitely becomes a circle. The search for good comes back to Self. I am the whole mystery, God. I am a body, the lower self; and I am the Lord of the universe.
Why should a man be moral and pure? Because this strengthens his will. Everything that strengthens the will by revealing the real nature is moral. Everything that does the reverse is immoral. The standard varies from country to country, from individual to individual. Man must recover from his state of slavery to laws, to words, and so on. We have no freedom of the will now, but we shall have when we are free. Renunciation is this giving up of the world. Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes. As long as renunciation is not there, self and the passion animating it are different. At last they become identified, and the man is an animal at once. Become possessed with the feeling of renunciation.
I once had a body, was born, struggled and died: What awful hallucinations! To think that one was cramped in a body, weeping for salvation!
But does renunciation demand that we all become ascetics? Who then is to help others? Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse. Renunciation is of the mind. How does it come? In a desert, when I was thirsty, I saw a lake. It was in the midst of a beautiful landscape. There were trees surrounding it, and their reflections could be seen in the water, upside down. But the whole thing proved to be a mirage. Then I knew that every day for a month I had seen this; and only that day, being thirsty, I had learnt it to be unreal. Every day for a month I should see it again. But I should never take it to be real. So, when we reach God, the idea of the universe, the body and so on, will vanish. It will return afterwards. But next time we shall know it to be unreal.
The history of the world is the history of persons like Buddha and Jesus. The passionless and unattached do most for the world. Picture Jesus in the slums. He sees beyond the misery, "You, my brethren, are all divine." His work is calm. He removes causes. You will be able to work for the good of the world when you know for a fact that this work is all illusion. The more unconscious this work, the better, because it is then the more superconscious. Our search is not for good or evil; but happiness and good are nearer to truth than their opposites. A man ran a thorn into his finger, and with another thorn took it out. The first thorn is Evil. The second thorn is Good. The Self is that Peace which passeth beyond both evil and good. The universe is melting down: man draws nearer to God. For one moment he is real -- god. He is re - differentiated -- a prophet. Before him, now, the world trembles. A fool sleeps and wakes a fool -- a man unconscious; and superconscious, he returns with infinite power, purity, and love -- the God - man. This is the use of the superconscious state.
Wisdom can be practised even on a battlefield. The Gita was preached so. There are three states of mind: the active, the passive, and the serene. The passive state is characterised by slow vibrations; the active by quick vibrations, and the serene by the most intense vibrations of all. Know that the soul is sitting in the chariot. The body is the chariot; the outer senses are the horses; and the mind the reins; and the intellect the charioteer. So man crosses the ocean of Maya. He goes beyond. He reaches God. When a man is under the control of his senses, he is of this world. When he has controlled the senses, he has renounced.
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory. Krishna, the charioteer of Arjuna, hears him say, "Let us forgive our enemies", and answers, "You speak the words of wise men, but you are not a wise man, but a coward". As a lotus - leaf, living in the water yet untouched by it, so should the soul be in the world. This is a battlefield, fight your way out. Life in this world is an attempt to see God. Make your life a manifestation of will strengthened by renunciation.
We must learn to control all our brain - centres consciously. The first step is the joy of living. Asceticism is fiendish. To laugh is better than to pray. Sing. Get rid of misery. Do not for heaven's sake infect others with it. Never think God sells a little happiness and a little unhappiness. Surround yourself with flowers and pictures and incense. The saints went to the mountain tops to enjoy nature.
The second step is purity.
The third is full training of the mind. Reason out what is true from what is untrue. See that God alone is true. If for a moment you think you are not God, great terror will seize you. As soon as you think "I am He ", great peace and joy will come to you. Control the senses. If a man curses me, I should still see in him God, whom through my weakness I see as a curser. The poor man to whom you do good is extending a privilege to you. He allows you, through His mercy, to worship Him thus.
The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.
There is a divine within that cannot be overcome either by church dogmas or by blackguardism. A handful of Greeks speak wherever there is civilisation. Some mistakes there must always be. Do not grieve. Have great insight. Do not think, "What is done is done. Oh, that 'twere done better!" If man had not been God, humanity would by this time have become insane, with its litanies and its penitence.
None will be left, none destroyed. All will in the end be made perfect. Say, day and night, "Come up, my brothers! You are the infinite ocean of purity! Be God! Manifest as God!"
What is civilisation? It is the feeling of the divine within. When you find time, repeat these ideas to yourself and desire freedom. That is all. Deny everything that is not God. Assert everything that is God. Mentally assert this, day and night. So the veil grows thinner: "I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!"
Find yourself bodiless. You never had a body. It was all superstition. Give back the divine consciousness to all the poor, the downtrodden, the oppressed, and the sick.
Apparently, every five hundred years or so, a wave of this thought comes over the world. Little waves arise in many directions: but one swallows up all the others and sweeps over society. That wave does this which has most character at its back.
Confucius, Moses, and Pythagoras; Buddha, Christ, Mohammed; Luther, Calvin, and the Sikhs; Theosophy, Spiritualism, and the like; all these mean only the preaching of the Divine - in - man.
Never say man is weak. Wisdom - yoga is no better than the others. Love is the ideal and requires no object. Love is God. So even through devotion we reach the subjective God. I am He! How can one work, unless one loves city, country, animals, the universe? Reason leads to the finding of unity in variety. Let the atheist and the agnostic work for the social good. So God comes.
But this you must guard against: Do not disturb the faith of any. For you must know that religion is not in doctrines. Religion lies in being and becoming, in realisation. All men are born idolaters. The lowest man is an animal. The highest man is perfect. And between these two, all have to think in sound and colour, in doctrine and ritual.
The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols." Religion is not intellectual jargon at all, but realisation. If you think about God, you are only a fool. The ignorant man, by prayer and devotion, can reach beyond the philosopher. To know God, no philosophy is necessary. Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others. Religion is experience. Above all and in all, be sincere; identification brings misery, because it brings desire. Thus the poor man sees gold, and identifies himself with the need of gold. Be the witness. Learn never to react.
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