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2010/07

万世师表

2007年7月29日是导师节（译注：GURU POORNIMA,GURU导师。POORNIMA月圆之夜），庆祝敬爱的圣者毗耶娑（VYASA译注：广博仙人，古印度圣人，相传编集“吠陀”，故亦称“吠陀广博”。“往事书”和“摩诃婆罗多”亦传为他所作。）之诞辰及对我们的导师和老师表达我们的爱戴、尊敬和感恩的日子。每逢这节日斯瓦米都会赐予启示的讲道。我们现在就摘录斯瓦米于二十年前，即1987年，所恩赐的一则讲道如下：

成为真正的人

得此人身而人却不致力于成为真正的人。从兽进化为人不知需时多少个千禧年。世界总人口已达数十亿，但有几人展现真正的人类素质？人还是要经历真正人性开始形成时的纷扰和痛苦。只有在人性素质得到彰显之后，人才能称为真正的人。在那人性之内寓有神性。它会披上真理之外衣。它会是正义（DHARMA）、爱（PREMA）与平和（SANTHI）的化身。只有在人展示这些素质时，他才能被称为人。倘若人类最少能达到人性的这个阶层，那就足够了。

今天我们欢庆导师节。这是对导师（宗教的或其他领域的）展示崇拜和敬重的一天。导师有八大类，他们灌输和传授不同种类的灵性教诲。这当中，真正重要的那一类导师是“正确行为导师”（VIHITHA GURU),他们驱除信徒心中的疑点并揭示自我发掘与自我证悟的过程给信徒。导师应该祛除无知之黑暗（对本质之无知）并照亮信徒的心智。这亮光务必导致对“一之真性”的理解而这真性是超越名、相和属性的。

圣灰（VIBHUTI)表示什么？

斯瓦米经常给信众以圣灰（VIBHUTI 或 BHASMA)。很多人把圣灰涂在额上。这圣灰的内在意义是什么？任何有名有相之物一经完全焚烧，留下的就只有灰。名与相消失了。化成灰的最后阶段，所有物质是同样的，彼此无异。赐予圣灰时，斯瓦米要接受者了解这基本的“单一性”(ADVAITAM,不二性）。信徒应该舍弃自我（AHAMKARA,分开感觉所产生的自我）及‘我的’和‘你的’（MAMAKARA）的感觉。这两者皆以名和相作为其基础而当它们被摧毁时，神的根本一体性即可被证悟。

人们不断地谈论不二性（ADVAITA），但仅止于此而不付诸实行。你必须力行实践你所传授的或专长的。今天，遵照自己的信仰和教导而生活的导师毕竟不多。他们的言行不一致甚或背道而驰。寻求导师已没有什么意义了。其实在我们每一个人之内就有一个导师。那就是阿特玛（ATMA，纯灵、自性）原则。它是永恒的见证者，以寓于人人之内的良心在操作。以此良心作为指南去完成所有行动吧！

真正的超脱

真正的超脱在于降服于神的意愿而不是根据你的意念和奇想去为所欲为。人们所要的超脱是什么？是像狗一样，行为没有自制吗？是降低到次于人的层次吗？是逃离神圣本质而沉溺于邪恶的作为吗？这又是什么样的超脱呢？

在这方面，我今天会告诉你们有关不同时代（YUGA）的内在含义，诸如三分期（TRETHA YUGA）、二分期（DWAPARA YUGA）和我们现在所处的伽利期（KALI YUGA）。

体验在你之内的神

在三分期（TRETHA YUGA,主罗摩RAMA,下凡之时代），神圣元素位于一边而恶魔元素位于另一边。在二分期（DWAPARA YUGA,主基士拿KRISHNA,下凡之时代），神圣与恶魔元素，即，般达瓦族群（PANDAVAS）和高罗瓦族群（KAURAVAS）同时隶属于同一王国。然而今天，这两种神圣与恶魔的力量正在每一个人类之内互相斗争。这就是伽利期的标志。

三分期时，罗摩亲自出战。二分期时，基士拿扮演一个见证者的角色，利用他人作为工具。他本身并不披甲上阵。伽利期时，由于这两种对立之要素在于每一个人之内，主于是以良心的身份扮演一个见证者的角色。人必须利用天赋予他的辨识力量去战斗在他之内的邪恶力量。他必须借自己的努力去促进在他之内的神圣元素并聆听他良心的声音。为了这个目的，天赋人以自由选择的权利。这自由是被利用来辨识是非善恶和促进神圣素质的。这就是伽利期的特征。在这时期，每一个个体必须亲自与邪恶势力作战并歼灭之。如做到这一点，那么，人之天赋的神圣本质自然而然就彰显了。

诸位爱的化身！你无须假借特别的灵修（SADHANA）来体验寓于你之内的神；要确认这一点。你只必须消除你自己不净的思想和行为就得了。圣化你执行的每一个行动而使之成为一种灵性修习。神不是一个被创造出来的客体。它是自我发光的并且存在于每一个人之内。

神圣讲道1987年7月11日于满月礼堂

THE ETERNAL GURU

On July 29th 2007 falls Guru Poornima, the festival celebrating the birth of revered Sage Vyasa and the occasion to express our love, reverence and gratitude to our teachers and preceptors. Swami, most often, gives a revealing discourse on this occasion every year, and let us recapitulate now one such His discourse delivered two decades ago in 1987.

Become Truly Human

By being endowed with the human form, men do not become really human. The evolution from animal to the human being has taken millennia. The world is peopled today by billions of human beings. But how many of them display genuine human qualities? Man is still going through birth-pangs of real humanness. Only when human qualities are manifest can man claim to be truly human. In that humanness there is Divinity. It will wear the mantle of Truth. It will be the embodiment of Dharma (Righteousness), Prema (Love) and Santhi (Peace). It is only when men display these qualities that they can be regarded as human. If mankind is able to achieve at least this level of humanness, it would be sufficient.

Today we are celebrating Gurupoornima. The day is usually observed as an occasion for offering worship to the Guru (the religious or other preceptor). There are eight different types of gurus, who impart spiritual instructions of different kinds. Among these, the really important guru is "Vihitha Guru", the preceptor who removes the doubts in the minds of the disciples and reveals to them the process of Self-discovery and Self-realisation. The guru should destroy the darkness of ignorance (about one's Reality) and illumine the mind of the disciple. The illumination must result in the perception of the One Reality that is beyond name and form and attributes.

What Does Vibhuti Signify?

Swami often gives to devotees Vibhuti or Bhasma (the sacred ash). Many people smear their foreheads with this ash. What is the inner significance of this ash? When any object that has a name and form is completely burnt, it is reduced to ashes. The name and form are gone. All things are one and the same in the final state as ashes. When Vibhuti is given, Swami wants the recipient to understand this Advaitam (basic oneness). The devotee should get rid of Ahamkara (ego arising from the feeling of separateness) and sense of Mamakara ("mine" and "thine"). These two are based on name and form and when they are destroyed, the underlying unity of the Divine can be realised.

People constantly talk of Advaita (non-dualism), but hardly live up to their professions in practice. One must practice what one preaches or professes. Today there are not many gurus who live up to their beliefs or teachings. Their actions belie their words. No purpose is served by going in search of gurus. There is a guru in each of us. It is the Atma (spirit) principle. It is the Eternal Witness functioning as Conscience in everyone. With this Conscience as guide, let all actions be done…

Real Freedom

Real freedom exists in submitting to the Will of the Divine and not acting according to one's caprices and fancies. What is freedom that people want? Is it to behave like dogs with no self-restraint? Is it to descend to the level of the sub-human species? Is it to flee from one's divine nature and indulge in demonic acts? What kind of freedom is this?

In this context I shall tell you today the inner meaning of the different yugas (eras) the Tretha Yuga, the Dwapara Yuga and the present Kali Yuga.

Experience the Divine in You

In the Tretha Yuga (the time of Lord Rama), the Divine elements were on one side and the demonical elements on the other… In the Dwapara Yuga (the time of Lord Krishna), the divine and the demonic elements - namely, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, were in the same kingdom… But today, these divine and demonic forces are battling in each human being. This is the mark of the Kali age.

In Tretha Yuga Rama fought the battle in person. In Dwapara Yuga Krishna played the role of a witness, using others as His instruments. He did not engage in the battle Himself. In Kali Yuga because the two opposing factors are in each individual, the Lord plays the role of a witness and as the conscience. Man has to use the power of discrimination given to him to fight the evil forces within him. He has to foster the divine elements in him by his own efforts and listening to the voice of his conscience. The freedom to choose has been given to man for this purpose. This freedom is to be used to discriminate between right and wrong, good and evil and to foster divine qualities. This is the unique feature of the Kali age. In this age, each individual has to fight against the demonic forces himself and vanquish them. When this is accomplished man's inherent divine nature will manifest itself of its own accord.

Embodiments of love! Realise that no special Sadhana (spiritual practice) is needed to experience the Divine in you. You must get rid yourself of impure thoughts and actions. Sanctify every action you do and make it a Sadhana. The Divine is not a created object. It is self-effulgent and present in everyone.

- Divine Discourse in the Poornachandra Auditorium on 11-7-1987