拉玛那.马哈希——论臣服与古鲁

美赫嘉童

Existence or Consciousness is the only reality. Consciousness plus waking we call waking. Consciousness plus sleep we call sleep. Consciousness plus dream, we call dream. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.
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存在或曰觉知是唯一的实相。觉知加醒来，我们称为醒来。觉知加入睡，我们称为入睡。觉知加做梦，我们称为做梦。觉知是所有画面得以展现生灭的屏幕。屏幕是实相，那些画面不过是屏幕上的影像。

Surrender
There are two ways of achieving surrender. One is looking into the source of the 'I' and merging into that source. The other is feeling 'I am helpless myself, God alone is all powerful, and except by throwing myself completely on Him, there is no other means of safety for me', and thus gradually developing the conviction that God alone exists and the ego does not count. Both methods lead to the same goal. Complete surrender is another name for jnana or liberation.
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臣服
有两种方式可以达到臣服。一个是质询"我“的源头，并融于那个源头。
另一个方式是：自我感到：“我自己是彻底无助的，唯有上帝是无所不能，除了将自己完全的寄托在他身上，没有任何其他方式会得到绝对的安全。”这样逐渐培育一种确信：唯有上帝无所不在，私我毫不重要。
这两种方式都能抵达相同的目标。彻底的臣服是解脱的又名。


There is no difference between the dream and the waking states except that the dream is short and the waking long. Both are the result of the mind. Our real state, called turiya, is beyond the waking, dream and sleep states.
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醒和梦的状态没有太大区别，仅仅是入梦的时间短，醒着的时间长。两者都是意识的产物。我们的真实状态叫做turiya ，是超越醒，梦以及睡眠状态的。

I have not said that a Guru is not necessary. But a Guru need not always be in human form. First a person thinks that he is an inferior and that there is a superior, all-knowing, all powerful God who controls his own and the world's destiny and worships him or does Bhakti. When he reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment, the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on. That Guru comes only to tell him that ‘God is within yourself. Dive within and realize.’ God, Guru and the Self are the same.
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我并没有说古鲁是不需要的。只是古鲁并不必然永远是以人类的形式出现。
首先，一个人认定他自己较无能无知，有一个全能的上帝掌控着他以及整个世界的命运，于是信仰上帝或献身巴克提。当他达到某个阶段并且变得适合觉悟时，他所信仰的上帝就以古鲁的形式出现并引导他。而那个古鲁只是来告诉他“上帝在你之内，潜入其中并成为它。”上帝，古鲁以及大我都是同一个。


人们总是无法明白一个简单的事实：日常生活中每一个当下的觉知就是真实的大我。有谁是无法意识到大我的?人们只对神秘的事物惑兴趣，譬如天堂、地狱、轮回转世等等，简单的真相是不吸引人的。因此宗教纵容他们，最后还是要把他们带回大我。既然你最终还是回到大我，何不在当下便安住于大我。