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我谦卑的顶礼于我们敬爱的薄伽梵峇峇的足下。

亲爱的兄弟姐妹，

傍晚，得悉我讲演的主题是‘内寓者’。就让我们对这主题作深入的探讨吧！这世界所有弊病，如分歧，矛盾和冲突都是由于我们忽视了在我们每一个人之内的，同一圣灵的‘内寓者’而产生的。那么为何我们不知道这真相呢？在接下来的讨论中，我们也会认识到，对‘内寓者’的觉知是唯一解决当今这个为困苦所撕裂的社会的种种问题。

我们经常遇到缺乏赏识心意的人。他们甚至作出令人泄气的批评并试图打倒一个在他所选择的工作领域中展现创造力，革新和建设性的人。换句话说，这样的人在精神上屠杀他人。这样的一种态度个体地和整体地对社会都造成破坏。或者，那些已经在远方冒出头且令人钦佩的人，如果他们当初获得本地的鼓励和支持，他们在这里会得到更大的成就。一个合时的确认，一个肩背的轻拍，一句鼓舞的话语肯定会阻止了许多年轻人，因得不到奖励，缺乏晋升的展望，甚至连赞赏也没有而离开国土。这等于是精神的伤害。所以，他们感到挫折，失望，沮丧和被忽视。就这样，一个个科学家、政治家、作家、音乐家、艺术家、研究者都可能会感到失落。

我们每一个人首先应该尝试去看到在他人之内的善良，找到在他人之内的优点，赞赏在他人之内的才华，并学会分享他人的喜悦与快乐。让我们不吝惜赞美也不随便贬低。此乃步向‘内寓者’之旅程的第一步。我们在心理上受到优越感或自卑感的折磨太久了，而只要我们还存有自私自利，自我中心和不可一世的心态，我们在一生中都不可能体认和体验‘内寓者’，不论我们修习的是哪一种法门。这一类的心理弱点蒙蔽每一个人，而导致他不能认识，赞赏，承认在他人之内的杰出的才华或优点。

哈拉格宾古拉纳（Hara Gobind Khurana）定居美国做研究工作时，获得诺贝尔奖，但他早期是在印度度过的，当时没人想知道他的工作，甭说赞赏和支持了。哈尔达米（J.B.S. Haldame）的一生告诉我们，待人处事应该真诚。只有在整个世界为德肋撒修女（Mother Teresa）喝彩之后，我们才知道她。诸如此类的例子，多得不胜枚举。基于这精神素养和消极态度，作为一个国家，我们失去许多专才，而作为一个个体，我们失去体验‘内寓者’所不可或缺的洞察力。薄伽梵峇峇一再地告诉我们，“找出你自己的缺点和他人的优点。”祂一再地提醒我们，“判断一个人必须以他的优点而不是缺点。”肉身的执著，完全的自私，过多的欲望，夸大的估计自己的能力，渴望避免和厌恶健全的竞争，毫无意义的抗争等，这一切可能就是缺乏赏识精神的某些原因。我们不应该以我们的语言，意念和行为（身口意）去伤害任何人，因为在每个人之内的‘内寓者’就是神本身。

薄伽梵谈到女性取名的问题时说女性不愿取名吉迦伊（Kaikeyi，主罗摩小妈），因为她轻信女佣的话而导致十车王（King Dasaratha）的死亡及罗摩的被放逐。同样，曼塔罗（Manthara）以说人坏话见称。她的搬弄是非腐蚀了吉迦伊的心念。是故，没有女性愿意采取曼塔罗的名字。男性则不愿以难敌（Duryodhana，持国长子）为名。为什么？他以邪恶的念头，嫉妒和毒辣的阴谋见称。同样，吉查卡（Keechaka）以丑陋的脸色见称而这毁灭了他的一生并死于比玛（Bhima，意译怖军，般度五子之老二）的手里。因此，恶劣的听取，恶劣的脸色，恶劣的思想，不仅破坏一个人的事业和他的名声，也把他带离‘内寓者’。它们是障碍物，进速的破坏者，阻挠物，使我们难以反求诸己，向内探视而体验‘内寓者’。这些倾向在心理上摧毁任何人。在大多数的情况下，杀人犯会被判死刑。这仅是肉身的惩罚。然而实际上，那是邪恶的心念造成的，心念是祸首，理应受到惩罚。若非心念促使，无人会犯上任何罪行。我们设有法庭和制有法律以惩罚仅受到心念驱使而犯罪的肉体。你可以逮捕一个人的肉身，但你不能逮捕他的思想。

我们也有一种错觉，以为在某些吉祥而圣洁的日子里斋戒即可超凡入圣，以为那就是所谓的灵性修习。不，完全不是。有时，我们因远游而废食。我们不能称之为灵修（Sadhana）。如果是灵修，心念应该斋戒或挨饿，不以任何世俗的念头充饥。舍尔地赛峇峇（Shirdi Sai Baba）从不鼓励任何人斋戒。斋戒的意义就是与神，‘内寓者’同在。薄伽梵峇峇说，“斋戒是对感官的修炼而不是对肉身”。

我们现在明白，外驰的心念是忽视寓于人人之内的，实在的‘内寓者’的根由。显然，本来应该欢享‘内寓者’的福乐的，不二的，永恒境界的心念，现在却反而成为他人精神主动权的杀手。外驰的心念是一个人自己的幸福和活力以及他对他所交往者之热忱的杀手。我们应该对这‘杀手心念’提高警惕，保持慎重，而‘杀手心念’是外在的，二元的，重欲的，自我中心的，以及，物质主义的。这‘杀手心念’就像一个摆钟，当一个人名成利就，事业成功，载誉荣归，无往不利的时候，摆向炫耀浮华而有表现癖的一端。在失败或损失或挫折或遭责备时，‘杀手心念’的錘摆就摆到差异，泄气和沮丧的另一端。这样的一个心念，我认为或可称之为‘杀手心念’。

现在让我们讨论心念的第二个层面，那就是我们称之为‘刺激物心念’，紧随着第一个层面的‘杀手心念’。薄伽梵在祂的神圣讲道中提到自然界，“是谁把鹦鹉的喙涂成红色以搭配牠绿色的身体？多美的对衬啊！是谁涂上美丽的颜色于孔雀的羽毛上？小河的潺潺流水声宛如美妙的音乐，那是谁的杰作？微风为何轻拂，让众生呼吸新鲜空气得以维系生命？为何星星在晚上闪烁而白天则隐藏起来？是谁在开天辟地中带来白天和夜晚？在谁的指令下，这些事物得以在永无止息的精确性和定期性之下发生和运作？”我们何曾不对太阳系，月球系和银河系及其群星感到惊奇？你可曾想到维系有机世界的永恒而无限的五大元素？吃下的食物如何在体内被消化和被吸收？火烧毁一切触及它的东西，为何不会烧掉同样柴薪所烧剩的残灰？

我们知道水是氢氧化合物。把两者结合成水的是谁？为何行星不在行星系统中相撞？是谁邀请蜜蜂从远处到此来采取花蜜？轮回转世是应谁的要求而产生？是谁授予内在之光，致使透过肉眼得见外在之光？瞎子有眼而看不见，不就等于失去内在之光，这不是个事实吗？若内在之声不出现，耳朵就听不见了。那么同样，皮肤也就没有触觉了。所有五大元素都在你之内，也在你之外，可以用五大感官去感觉，去表达和去体验。所以，薄伽梵峇峇说，“你是光，你是声，你是磁石，你是发电机，你是电脑。”

当我们听到布谷鸟的啼声，注意到叶上的露珠，观察到黎明时分湖里的雾气与满是巨树，斜坡和山谷的高山相辉映，瞥见天真无邪的孩子所展露的笑容，的时候，我们不感到兴奋，激动吗？我们的心念不是会对剧情惊叹吗？绝对会。这样的一个敏感的，有反应的和感受敏锐的心念，我们姑且称之为‘刺激物心念’。在你虔诚祈祷一段长时间之后，薄伽梵突然在早上的达瞻（darshan）站在你面前，设想你的心念是什么样子。当你很需要祂的那个紧要关头时，你突然被叫到面谈室去，想想你的心念会作出什么反应。肯定你会或你的心念会激动、兴奋，不在话下。这就是我所说的‘刺激物心念’。

黄昏前，白鸟在蓝天飞翔，红花绿叶摇曳，宛似随风起舞，心念因悦目的自然景色而振奋。类似的情境也会发生，当我们造访任何朝圣中心，美术馆等的时候。那‘刺激物心念’是在以上所述的‘杀手心念’之上。前者提升你至更超逸的高度而后者会把你拉下更低下的洼地。因此你必须从第一步的‘杀手心念’启程而走到下一步的‘刺激物心念’的阶段。

心念的第三个层面是自动和自然达致的。它是始终持久不变的，充满生气的，光辉灿烂的，自己发光的‘内寓者’。既已振奋于自然现象及其在肉身，心理，精神和智能阶段的生活方式，人于是把心念转向内在。他走向使他的身体工作，心念思考，生命维系和感官操作的源头。在灵性的说法上，此乃所谓的‘mimamsa’或自性探索。在第一层面的‘杀手心念’中，心念是很活跃的，完全二元性的，占有欲强的，外在的，官能的和基于世俗的。然而，在第二层面中，‘刺激物心念’则是积极的，审核查明的，使人高兴的，振奋人心的和令人激动的。它尝试去深潜和探索，完全被他周遭无法解释的，不可理解的，神秘的和迷人的世界所激动，而他正是这世界的一个组成部分和一个完整的单位。他开始惊讶，宇宙设计者的造物主是如此的宏伟和强大。他努力去追随和采纳不同宗教的仪式和灵性修行。最终他会明白，除了把心念转向内在，别无其他选择可以找到他永恒探索的答案。

薄伽梵峇峇说这是自性探索，在真正的意义上就是灵性。其他一切实习，如火祭，献祭，苦行，坐禅，膜拜等仅是圣洁的活动以净化心念而不糟蹋时间，但决不是灵性的。

在‘内在之道’（Nivritti Marga)，转向内在的心念导致对自性的觉知，而所有个人的工具，身体，心念和智能简直是微不足道的，派不上用场。很快地，探索者就会知道，‘终极的实体’就是他所要体验的‘内寓者’，而他所被赋予的工具，如身体，心念，感官和智能，只有在‘内寓者’还寓于内在时才能操作。只要‘内寓者’从内在操作，监督和工作，他就是sivam或吉祥亨通。丧失了‘内寓者’无异于一个savam或尸体。所以，‘内寓者’是潜流，是生命原则，虽然是看不到的，隐蔽的，潜伏的和内在的。落入海洋中的一滴水丧失了它自己。溶于水中的糖失去了它的名和相。

举个例子，有一个银做的杯子，放在我们面前，如果我们注意银，我们就看不到杯子。如果我们注意木材我们就看不到木做的桌子。在花环中，如果你特别重视贯穿花朵间的线，而花的颜色，形状，芬芳就被忽视了。我们把同样的原理应用于此，那就是，确认‘内寓者’是唯一的鼓动力量，推进，震荡和指挥生活中的每一个活动，这样，这认知就会使‘内寓者’成为吸引力和深度专注的核心，而不再是身体，心念和智能了。

虽然‘杀手’，‘刺激物’和‘内寓者’表面看来似乎有所不同和矛盾，但事实上，它们并非如此。它们是互补的，并且在三个步骤中，一个步骤支持和导致下一个步骤。杀手心念代表二元性，刺激物心念代表准不二性，而‘内寓者’则代表不二性。杀手心念是有着‘Thamo Guna’（翳质）特质的境界，刺激物心念是‘Rajo Guna’（激质）的投影，而‘内寓者’是‘Satwic’，是纯净的，无暇的，不受污染的，稳定的，不变的，永恒的和不朽的真理。‘内寓者’是超越属性（guna）之上的，即 gunaatheetha。它是终极的实体和纯意识。它充满着或完全是至福。如果体现对唯一和同一圣灵的‘内寓者’，其存在的这个真实性的认识或觉知，那么就不会有不安或干扰或焦虑，而有的只是持久的平和，安宁，智慧和至福。

Sai Ram。

取自《薄伽梵斯里沙迪亚赛峇峇普及和实用的教导》第3章

THE INDWELLER

My humble pranams at the lotus feet of our beloved Bhagavan Baba.

Dear brothers and sisters,

The topic given to me this evening for my talk is ‘The Indweller’. Let us go deep into the subject. All ills of this world such as differences, contradictions, conflicts are because of the fact that we have ignored the ‘Indweller’ in each and every one of us who is the same divine. Why then, do we not know this reality? In the course of discussion to follow we will also realize that the awareness of the ‘Indweller’ is the only solution to the present day problems of the trouble-torn society.

We often come across people who lack the spirit of appreciation. They even pass discouraging comments and try to pull down a person who is creative, innovative and constructive in his chosen field of work. In other words, such people kill others psychologically. Such an attitude damages society individually and collectively. Perhaps those that have come up very well and won the admiration of many at a different and distant land, would have done much better here, had they been encouraged and supported. A timely recognition, a pat on the back, a word of encouragement would have prevented many youngsters who leave the country as they have no incentives, prospects for advancement and not even appreciation. This amounts to psychological violence. So, they feel frustrated, disappointed, dejected and neglected. This way a scientist, a statesman, a writer, a musician, an artist, a researcher may find himself lost.

Everyone of us should first try to see good in others, find merit in others, admire the God-given talents in others and learn to share other’s joy and happiness. Let us be lavish in praise and sparing in blame. This is the first step towards our journey to the ‘Indweller’. So long we suffer from superiority or inferiority complex mentally, and as long as we are egoistic, self-centred and proud, it is impossible to know and experience the ‘Indweller’ for life time, no matter whatever spiritual path we may follow. This sort of psychological weakness blinds everyone, and so he or she cannot recognise, appreciate, acknowledge outstanding talent or merit in others.

Hara Gobind Khurana was awarded the noble prize when he settled and did research in U.S.A., while he spent his earlier period of life here in India, none cared to know about his work, leave alone appreciate and support. J.B.S. Haldame’s life tells us how sincere we should be. We recognized the greatness of Mother Teresa only after the whole world acclaimed her. There are many examples of this kind. As a nation we lose many experts and as an individual we lose the insight needed to experience the ‘Indweller’, with this psychic temperament and negative attitude. Bhagavan Baba tells us repeatedly, “Seek out your own faults and others’ merits.” He repeatedly reminds that “One has to be judged by the merits and not faults”. Body attachment, utter selfishness, excessive desires, exaggerated estimation of one’s own abilities and capacities, desire to avoid and detest even healthy competition, meaningless rivalry etc., may be some of the reasons for the absence of spirit of appreciation. We should not hurt anyone with our words, thoughts and deeds, because the ‘Indweller’ in everyone is God Himself.

Bhagavan remarks that no woman bears the name of Kaikeyi (stepmother of Lord Rama) as her weakness to listen to her servant’s words led to the death of King Dasaratha and the exile of Rama. Similarly, Manthara is known for speaking ill of others. Her words spoiled the mind of Kaikeyi. Therefore, no woman bears the name of Manthara. No man would like to be called Duryodhana. Why? He is known for his wicked thoughts, envy and evil designs. So also the character of Keechaka known for bad looks, which ruined him and put him to death in the hands of Bhima. Therefore bad hearing, bad looks, bad thoughts not only spoil the career and the good name of a person, but will also take him far away from the ‘Indweller’. They are the blocks, the speed breakers, hindrances for us to look into ourselves to turn inward and experience the ‘Indweller’. These tendencies ruin any person psychologically. Most often one who commits murder will be sentenced to death or hanged. This is only the punishment for the body. But in fact it is the evil mind which is the root cause of the crime that is to be punished. Unless the mind prompts, no one perpetrates any evil deed. We have courts and laws to punish the body which merely acts prompted by the mind. You can arrest a person physically, you cannot arrest his thoughts.

We are also under the false impression that by fasting on certain auspicious and sacred days we become spiritual and it is a sort of Sadhana. No, not at all. Some times when we travel long distances we skip food. We cannot call it Sadhana. The mind should fast or starve by not entertaining any worldly thoughts if it is to be spiritual Sadhana. Shirdi Sai Baba never encouraged anybody to fast. The significance of fasting is to be with God, the ‘Indweller’. According to Bhagavan Baba, “Fasting is to be exercised with respect to the senses and not the body.”

We now understand that it is the mind which is outward, responsible for the ignorance of the actual ‘Indweller’ in everyone of us. It is also clear to us now that the mind instead of enjoying the blissful, non-dual, eternal state of the ‘Indweller’, is behaving as the killer of the initiative in the spirit of others. The mind traversing outward is the killer of one’s own happiness and dynamism as well as the enthusiasm of any other person with whom one mingles. We should be ever vigilant and cautious of this ‘Killer mind’, which is outward, dual, desire-oriented, ego-centred and materialistic. This ‘Killer mind’ like a pendulum moves to one end of pride pomp and exhibitionism, when a person is successful in ventures, wins, glory or gains reputation, triumphs in undertakings and earns encomiums. In times of failure or loss or defeat or censure, the ‘Killer mind’ pendulum moves to the other end of difference, dejection and depression. Such a mind I feel may be termed as the ‘Killer mind’.

Now let us dwell on the second aspect of the mind and call it ‘Thriller mind’, the first being the ‘Killer mind’. Bhagavan refers to nature in His Divine discourses, “Who painted the beak of the parrot red, fixed to the green body? What a beautiful contrast it is! Who painted beautifully the feathers of the peacock? How is it the running brooks flow forth with sounds of music? Why should the wind blow for all the living to breathe and be sustained? How is it that the stars glitter at night and hide during the day? Who made day and night in the creation? Under whose command these things happen in unfailing precision and regularity?” Have we ever marvelled at the solar system, lunar system and the galaxy, milky way of stars? Did we ever think of the eternal infinite five elements that maintain this organic world? How does the digestion and assimilation of food partaken take place in the body? While the fire burns everything that comes into contact with it, why it does not burn ashes, though it is of the very same wood?

We know that water has hydrogen and oxygen as components. Who combined both? How is it that planets do not collide in the planetary system? Who invited the honeybee from a distance to drink the nectar of a flower? At whose instance and will this circle of birth and death take place? Who has bestowed the inner light so as to see the outer light through the physical naked eye? Is it not a fact that the blind have eyes that cannot see, as the inner light is missing? The ears turn deaf if the inner sound is absent. So also the skin cannot feel the sense of touch. All the five elements are in you as in the outer, which are felt, expressed and experienced by the five senses. So, “you are the light, you are the sound, you are the heat, you are the magnet, you are the generator, you are the computer”, says Bhagavan Baba.

When we listen to the singing of the cuckoo, watch the morning dew on the leaves, observe mist during the twilight on a lake against the background of mountains full of huge trees, slopes and valleys, cast a glance at the smile of an innocent child, are we not thrilled? Does not our mind marvel, at the scenario? It definitely does. Such a sensitive, responsive and receptive mind is termed as the ‘Thriller mind’. Imagine the state of your mind when Bhagavan stands in front of you during one of the morning darshans, when you have been praying for long. Think of the reaction of your mind when you are called for an interview by Bhagavan during the critical moments of life when you need Him very much. Needless to mention that you will be thrilled, or your mind will be thrilled. This is what I mean by the ‘Thriller mind’.

Before the dusk as the white birds fly high across the blue sky, flowers and leaves toss as if they are dancing by the touch of the cool breeze, the mind is thrilled in response to these pleasant scenes of nature. Similar is the state when we visit any pilgrim centre, places of fine arts and so on. The ‘Thriller mind’ is above the ‘Killer mind’, mentioned earlier. The former elevates you to sublime heights, while the latter will pull you down deeper and deeper. Therefore one must travel from the first step ‘Killer mind’ to the next ‘Thriller mind’ level.

The third is automatically and naturally attained. It is ever abiding, vibrant, radiant, self-effulgent ‘Indweller’. Having been thrilled at the nature and its own life pattern at different levels physical, psychological, mental and intellectual, man turns his mind inward. He goes to the very source which makes his body work, mind think, life sustain and senses operate. This in spiritual parlance is called ‘mimamsa’ or Self enquiry. In the first state of ‘Killer mind’ the mind is very active absolutely dualistic, possessive, external, sensual and world-based. But in the second state, the ‘Thriller mind’ is positive, investigating, joyful, exciting and thrilling. It tries to dive deep and explore, thrilled completely by the inexplicable, not understandable, mysterious and enthralling universe around him in which he is an integral part and an integrated unit. He starts wondering how magnificent and mighty must the creator be, being the master designer of this Universe. He tries to follow and adapt different religious rituals and spiritual pursuits. Ultimately he will know that there is no alternative left for him to find an answer to his eternal quest other than to turn his mind inward.

Bhagavan Baba says that this is Self-enquiry, which is spirituality in the true sense. All the rest of the practices such as yagnas, yagas, penance, meditation, worship, etc., are holy and sacred activities to purify the mind and spend time usefully, but in no way are they spiritual.

In the ‘Nivritti marga’ (inward path), mind turned inwards leads to the awareness of the Self, and all the instruments of the individual, body, mind, and intellect are minimal and negligible. Very soon the seeker comes to know that the “ultimate reality” is the ‘Indweller’ whom he wants to experience and that all the instruments he is gifted with like body, mind, senses and intellect function only if the ‘Indweller’ dwells within. He is sivam or the auspicious so long as the ‘Indweller’ operates, monitors and functions from within. Deprived of the ‘Indweller’, is just a savam or dead body. So the ‘Indweller’ is the undercurrent, life principle though unseen, hidden, latent and inherent. A drop in the ocean gets itself lost. Sugar in combination with water loses its name and form.

For example, we have a silver tumbler in front of us, if we concentrate on the silver, we do not see the tumbler there. If we are mindful of the wood, we do not see the table which is made of wood. In a garland if you are particular of the thread that runs through all the flowers, the colour, form, and the fragrance of the flowers fall into insignificance. So also, applying the same principle here, awareness of the ‘Indweller’ as the sole motivating force that propels, vibrates and directs every activity in our life, will then make the ‘Indweller’ as the centre of attraction and deep concentration, and no longer the body, mind and intellect.

Though killer, thriller and the ‘Indweller’ outwardly seem to be different and contradictory, in reality they are not so. They are complementary and are the three steps, one supporting and leading to the other. Killer mind represents dualism, thriller mind signifies qualified non-dualism, while the ‘Indweller’ stands for non-dualism. The killer mind is the state with the traits of ‘Thamo Guna’, the thriller mind is the projection of ‘Rajo Guna’, while the ‘Indweller’ is ‘Satwic’ who is pure, unsullied, unpolluted, stable, changeless, eternal, and immortal truth. ‘Indweller’ is beyond gunas; i.e., gunaatheetha. The ‘Indweller’ is the ultimate reality and pure consciousness. It is full or total bliss. Realisation or awareness of this reality of the existence of the ‘Indweller’ who is one and the same divine, if realized; there will be no more restlessness or disturbance or agitation, but there will be an abiding peace, tranquillity, wisdom, and bliss.

Sai Ram.

Universal & Practical Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Chapter 3