课堂谈话笔记
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我从不太在意这些事情。我来这里是为了阐述原则。我只需要宣讲：上帝一次又一次地降临，他在印度化身为克里希纳、罗摩和佛陀，而他还将再来。几乎可以证明，每隔五百年世界便陷入低谷，随后一股巨大的灵性浪潮涌来，而在浪潮之巅便是一位基督。
如今整个世界正在经历一场巨大的变革，这是一个循环。人们发现自己正在失去对生命的掌控；他们将走向何方，是向下还是向上？当然是向上。怎么可能向下呢？投身于缺口之中；用你的身体、你的生命填补缺口。当你还活着的时候，怎能容许世界沉沦？
在显化的存在中有着很大的差别。作为显化的存在，你永远不会成为基督。用泥土制造一头泥象，用同样的泥土制造一只泥鼠。把它们浸入水中，它们便合为一体。作为泥土，它们永恒地是一体的；作为被塑造之物，它们永恒地是不同的。绝对者是上帝与人共同的质料。作为绝对的、遍在的存在，我们都是一体的；而作为个体存在，上帝是永恒的主人，我们是永恒的仆人。
你身上有三样东西：（一）身体，（二）心意，（三）灵性。灵性是无形的，心意有生有灭，身体亦然。你就是那灵性，但你常常以为自己是身体。
当一个人说"我在这里"时，他想到的是身体。然后来到另一个时刻，当你处于最高的境界；你不会说"我在这里"。但如果有人辱骂你或诅咒你，而你不因此怨恨，那你就是灵性。"当我以为自己是心意时，我是你那永恒之火的一颗火花；当我感到自己是灵性时，你与我便是一体"——一位虔信者如此对上帝说。心意是否比灵性更高级？
上帝不需要推理；如果你已经了知，为什么还要推理？我们不得不像蠕虫一样缓缓爬行去获取一些事实并建立概括，然后整个东西又坍塌了——这正是软弱的标志。灵性映照在心意和一切事物之中。正是灵性之光使心意有了感知。一切都是灵性的表达；心意不过是无数面镜子。你所谓的爱与恐惧、仇恨、美德与罪恶，都是灵性的映射；只是当反射体低劣时，映像便是恶的。
我有一个特别的想法，即同一位佛陀后来成为了基督。佛陀曾预言："五百年后我将再来"，而基督确实在五百年后降临于此。这两位是整个人类本性中的两盏明灯。世上出现了两个人——佛陀与基督；这两位是巨大的、雄伟的人格，两位神。他们两人分享了整个世界。凡是世间有些许知识的地方，人们不是向佛陀便是向基督礼拜。再要产生类似的人物将会非常困难，但我希望将来会有。穆罕默德在五百年后降临，再五百年后路德携其新教浪潮而至，如今又过了五百年。在几千年间产生两位如耶稣和佛陀般的人物，已是了不起的事。两位这样的人物还不够吗？基督与佛陀是神，其余的人是先知。研究这两位的生平，看看他们身上力量的展现——沉静而不抗争，贫穷的乞者一无所有，口袋里没有一分钱，一生遭人鄙视，被称为异端和愚人——然后想想他们对人类所施展的无穷灵性力量。
我们要从罪中得救，须先从无知中得救。无知是因，罪是果。
当一个保姆带着婴儿到花园里玩耍时，母亲可能会传话叫婴儿回屋。婴儿沉浸在游戏中，说："我不去，我不想吃东西。"过了一会儿，婴儿玩累了，说："我要去找妈妈。"保姆说："这里有个新娃娃。"但婴儿说："我不再要娃娃了。我要去找妈妈。"他一直哭到回到母亲身边。我们都是婴儿。母亲就是上帝。我们沉迷于追求金钱、财富和所有这些东西；但终有一天我们会觉醒；届时这个自然界会试图给我们更多的娃娃，而我们会说："不，我已经够了；我要回到上帝那里去。"
如果我们与上帝不可分离且永远是一体的，那我们没有个体性吗？有的；那就是上帝。我们的个体性就是上帝。你现在拥有的并非真正的个体性。你正在走向那真正的个体性。个体性意味着不可分割之物。你怎么能把我们现在的状态称为个体性呢？这一刻你这样想，下一刻那样想，再过两个小时又是另一种想法。个体性是永不改变的。如果现在的状态永恒持续下去，那将极其危险，因为小偷将永远是小偷，恶棍将永远是恶棍。如果婴儿死了，它就必须永远是婴儿。真正的个体性是永不改变、也将永远不会改变的；那就是我们内在的上帝。
English
I never take much notice of these things. I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.
There is a great change now coming all over the world, and this is a cycle. Men are finding that they are losing hold of life; which way will they turn, down or up? Up, certainly. How can it be down? Plunge into the breach; fill up the breach with your body, your life. How should you allow the world to go down when you are living?
There is much difference in manifested beings. As a manifested being you will never be Christ. Out of clay, manufacture a clay elephant, out of the same clay, manufacture a clay mouse. Soak them in water, they become one. As clay, they are eternally one; as fashioned things, they are eternally different. The Absolute is the material of both God and man. As Absolute, Omnipresent Being, we are all one; and as personal beings, God is the eternal master, and we are the eternal servants.
You have three things in you: (1) the body, (2) the mind, (3) the spirit. The spirit is intangible, the mind comes to birth and death, and so does the body. You are that spirit, but often you think you are the body.
When a man says, "I am here", he thinks of the body. Then comes another moment when you are on the highest plane; you do not say, "I am here". But if a man abuses you or curses you and you do not resent it, you are the spirit. "When I think I am the mind, I am one spark of that eternal fire which Thou art; and when I feel that I am the spirit, Thou and I are one"-- so says a devotee to the Lord. Is the mind in advance of the spirit?
God does not reason; why should you reason if you knew? It is a sign of weakness that we have to go on crawling like worms to get a few facts and build generalisations, and then the whole thing tumbles down again. The spirit is reflected in the mind and everything. It is the light of the spirit that makes the mind sensate. Everything is an expression of the spirit; the minds are so many mirrors. What you call love and fear, hatred, virtue, and vice are all reflections of the spirit; only when the reflector is base the reflection is bad.
It is my particular fancy that the same Buddha became Christ. Buddha prophesied, "I will come again in five hundred years", and Christ came here in five hundred years. These are the two Lights of the whole human nature. Two men have been produced, Buddha and Christ; these are the two giants, huge gigantic personalities, two Gods. Between them they divide the whole world. Wherever there is the least knowledge in the world, people bow down either to Buddha or Christ. It would be very hard to produce more like them, but I hope there will be. Mohammed came five hundred years after, five hundred years after came Luther with his Protestant wave, and this is five hundred years after that again. It is a great thing in a few thousand years to produce two such men as Jesus and Buddha. Are not two such enough? Christ and Buddha were Gods, the others were prophets. Study the life of these two and see the manifestation of power in them -- calm and non - resisting, poor beggars owning nothing, without a cent in their pockets, despised all their lives, called heretic and fool -- and think of the immense spiritual power they have wielded over humanity.
We are to be saved from sin by being saved from ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of which sin is the result.
When a nurse takes a baby out into the garden and plays with the baby, the Mother may send a word to the baby to come indoors. The baby is absorbed in play, and says, "I won't come; I don't want to eat." After a while the baby becomes tired with his play and says, "I will go to Mother." The nurse says, "Here is a new doll", but the baby says, "I don't care for dolls any more. I will go to Mother", and he weeps until he goes. We are all babies. The Mother is God. We are absorbed in seeking for money, wealth, and all these things; but the time will come when we will awaken; and then this nature will try to give us more dolls, and we will say, "No, I have had enough; I will go to God."
If we are inseparable from God, and always one, have we no individuality? Oh yes; that is God. Our individuality is God. This is not real individuality which you have now. You are coming towards that true one. Individuality means what cannot be divided. How can you call this state -- we are now -- individuality? One hour you are thinking one way, and the next hour another way, and two hours after another way. Individuality is that which changes not. It would be tremendously dangerous for the present state to remain in eternity, then the thief would always remain a thief, and the blackguard, a blackguard. If a baby died, it would have to remain a baby. The real individuality is that which never changes, and will never change; and that is God within us.
文本来自Wikisource公共领域。原版由阿德瓦伊塔修道院出版。