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2015/03

第十位神化身(2)

摘自：斯里沙迪亚赛峇峇（Kalki Avatar，即白马神化身或第十位神化身）的一个简明传记
编者：Col.S.K.Bose (Retd)

。。。承接第一部

幼年期

在三四岁时，他已体现出他的仁慈之心。看到人家受苦，他的心溶化了。只要有人求乞于他家门口，我们现在所称呼的沙迪亚，就会要求和游说母亲或姐姐施舍一些粮食或食物。有一次，感到不耐烦的母亲告诉他，假如他是那么热心于喂养他们，那就把自己的那一份食物给他们吧！沙迪亚很愉快地这么做而那一天，他就拒绝向母亲求取食物。为了减轻长者的挂虑，他说有一个老人给他食物。他的肚子显得涨涨的而他的手也发出食物的味道。

年轻的导师

那是Ramanavami（罗摩诞辰节）之日的深夜时，游行队伍环绕村子游行。游行队伍由一装饰着花卉并挂着罗摩大画像的牛车带领。沙迪亚母亲以为沙迪亚喜欢看游行，但就是找不到他。当队伍来到拉祖的家时，他们很惊讶地看到五岁大的沙迪亚竟然坐在罗摩画像的旁边。他们问他的同伴，为什么他坐在牛车上而不是跟着队伍一起走。回答是，“他是我们的导师，怎么可以跟我们一起走”。

在布卡巴特南（Bukkapatnam）求学期间

八岁时，沙迪亚进入布卡巴特南高等小学就读。在学校里，他非常听话，很单纯，沉默寡言。一天，一个老师发现沙迪亚没有把听写的笔记记录下来。老师生气地责问沙迪亚为什么不作笔记。沙迪亚天真地回答说，他已读过了这课业，并且有把握回答有关这课业的任何问题。但是，老师的尊严受到伤害，于是他罚沙迪亚站在凳子上。沙迪亚毫无怨言地接受惩罚。下课铃声响起，这一节课的时间到了，而下一节课的老师麦布侃进来课室。看到前一节课的老师，昆达巴，还坐在椅子上而沙迪亚则站在凳子上。麦布侃甚感惊讶，不知发生了什么事。昆达巴轻声地对麦布侃说，他被椅子胶着了，不能起来。当他站立时，椅子也随着起来。在麦布侃的规劝下，昆达巴叫沙迪亚坐下，这时他发现椅子就再也不胶着于他了。

般塔里峇赞（Pandhari Bhajan）

沙迪亚在十岁时组织了‘般塔里峇赞团队’，一个由16到18个年龄相仿佛的男孩组成的队伍。他们唱民谣和歌谣。人们注意到，当霍乱席卷整个区域时，只有布达峇地完全不受影响。智者认为那是由于般塔里峇赞的关系，因为它发出神圣的力量以抵御疾病。般塔里峇赞的声名很快不胫而走，而哪里有传染病，人们就会邀请峇赞团前往表演。凡经他们唱了峇赞的地方，传染病即告销声匿迹。

哈奴曼神殿

在印度历11月（Magh）的清晨，沙迪亚经常带领村子里的所有小孩到哈奴曼神殿去。当孩子们正执行庙里的parikrama（绕庙而行）时，他找个地方坐着。一天，孩子们坚持沙迪亚应该跟他们一道绕行。就在沙迪亚准备跨出一步时，一只不知从何处来的大猴子尊敬地挡住沙迪亚前进。孩子们都感到惶恐而想逃离现场。沙迪亚平息和安抚他们并要他们注意这猴子的尊敬的神态，同时又向他们解释那可不是一只平凡的猴子而是哈奴曼本身。哈奴曼对沙迪亚说，即便他看起来是个孩子，但他一眼就看出沙迪亚是罗摩，而他，哈奴曼，是罗摩的崇拜者、仆人，因此如果沙迪亚执行绕庙礼以献给哈奴曼，那么就会给哈奴曼造成一大罪行了。沙迪亚说，他不得不答应哈奴曼的请求而不执行绕庙礼。孩子们无不感到兴奋，庆幸得到罗摩与哈奴曼在一起的罕有的达瞻（darshan）。这事件给孩子们的心灵带来了一个巨大的激励。

善待众生

沙迪亚不能忍受对动物的虐待。小时候，他经常远离牛羊或家禽的宰杀场以及捕鱼的地方。每当拉祖家里烹调肉类时，沙迪亚经常去苏巴玛（Subbamma）家回避，因为苏家是婆罗门阶级（Brahmin），故为素食者。当他长大一点时，他帮助终止村里的牛车竞赛和斗鸡游戏。当一些孩子收集一些青蛙于篮子内，准备带回家去观赏牠们跳跃时，他把那些青蛙变成鸽子飞走。他教导孩子们，要善待一切生物。

卡玛拉布拉姆（Kamalapuram）

此后不久，舍沙玛拉祖（Sheshama Raju）被派往卡玛拉布拉姆接受师资训练，沙迪亚也跟他前往，以便在较好的学校继续接受教育。舍沙玛拉祖相信沙迪亚有能力进入大专院校就读并成为一个政府官员。虽然他只来了卡玛拉布拉姆一段短时间，就是在那儿，他因温馨的天性和神奇的力量而声名大噪。有这样的一句话，他彰显自己于乌拉瓦昆达，却从卡玛拉布拉姆扩大他的荣耀。

师训结业后，舍沙玛拉祖被派往乌拉瓦昆达当泰卢固语老师。就在这里，沙迪亚的灵性生涯开花结果。在来乌拉瓦昆达之前，他的名气已家喻户晓。不久，他成为学校里最出名的孩子，很受教职员与同学的爱戴。1940年3月8日，沙迪亚的举止好像是被蝎蜇了，可是却找不到蝎子。事实证明，这是一个借口以开始他下一阶段的彰显，因为他的性格发生了显著的转变。当人家跟他说话时，他总是不愿回答。他对食物不感兴趣。大部分时间保持静默，有时吟唱歌曲与诗歌，并把背诵冗长的梵文赞诗（stotras，或神圣事迹的诗歌），及谈论最精奥的吠檀多（Vedanta），穿插其中。

回到布达峇地

舍沙玛心慌意乱，不知所措，在他的催促下，父母亲把沙迪亚带回布达峇地。不同的人建议不同的治疗方式。昆达玛拉祖提醒家人，主罗摩及其弟弟们在同样的年龄也经历了这种体验。（见沙迪亚赛峇峇的著作‘Ramakatha Rasa Vahini’* 44至49页）家庭导师婆喜史多穆尼（Vashishta Muni）被十车王（Dasharath）（译注十车王：罗摩之父）叫来以找出事情的根由。婆喜史多知道哪里出了问题并把罗摩请来。罗摩不断地问他许多深奥的灵性问题，婆喜史多一一给予详尽的回答。这对话以‘Yoga Vashishta’（婆喜史多瑜伽）见称。

昆达玛拉祖虽作了明智的解释，但家庭成员不为所动而坚决认为沙迪亚有鬼附身，并把他带到住于卡地理（Kadiri）附近的梵巴里（Brahmanpalli）的一个可怕的驱魔师求救。昆达玛拉祖很生气并有话要说，但是，沙迪亚使个眼色，要他保持缄默。他后来解释说，这都是他的游戏。这魔鬼化身的驱魔师让一个活泼可爱的十二岁小孩遭受不可言喻的折磨以赶走附身的幽灵。最后母亲和姐姐们再也看不下去了，才把沙迪亚带走并付了足够的费用给驱魔师作为酬劳。沙迪亚自始至终都保持不在乎与自若的态度以应之。当他们回来时，昆达玛拉祖听到所发生的一切和看到沙迪亚头上的疤痕，不禁老泪纵横。沙迪亚再解释这一切都是他的游戏而类似的事情再也不会发生了。这使万分痛苦的昆达玛得到了舒缓。

（* 译注：katha，事迹；rasa，菁华；vahini，河川。）

待续。。。

The Tenth Avatar

(A Concise Biography of Sri Sathya Sai Baba, The Kalki Avatar)
By: Col S.K Bose (Retd)

… Continue from Part 1

Childhood

Even as a young boy of three or four, he was kindness personified. His heart melted at the sight of human suffering. Whenever a beggar appeared at the door, Sathya, as he was now called, coaxed and cajoled his mother or sisters to dole out grain or food. The exasperated mother once told him to give a beggar his share of food if he was so keen to feed him. Sathya did so gladly and refused to come for food that day. To allay the anxiety of the elders, he said that an old man had given him food. His tummy appeared full and his hand smelt of food.

The Young Guru

It was Ramanavami and late at night the procession wended its way round the village. The procession was led by a bullock cart, gaily decorated with flowers and carrying a huge picture of Rama. Sathya’s mother thought that he would love to see the procession, but he was not to be found anywhere. When the procession reached the Raju household, they were surprised to see the five year old Sathya seated near Rama’s picture. They asked his companions why he was seated on the bullock cart and not walking with them. The answer was, “How can he walk with us when he is our Guru”.

School at Bukkapatnam

At the age of eight Sathya was admitted to the Higher Elementary School at Bukkapatnam. At school he was very obedient and simple and spoke the minimum necessary. One day a teacher discovered that Sathya was not taking down the notes that he was dictating. The teacher angrily asked Sathya why he was not doing do. Sathya innocently answered that he had studied the lesson and could answer any question that the teacher may ask him. But the teacher’s pride was hurt and he asked Sathya to stand on the bench. Sathya obeyed without a murmur. The bell rang for end of the period and the new teacher, Mehboob Khan came in and was surprised to find the previous teacher, Kondappa, still seated and Sathya standing on the bench. He whispered to Mehboob Khan that he was stuck to the chair. When he got up the chair, too, rose along with him. On Mehboob Khan’s advice, he asked Sathya to sit down and found that the chair was no longer stuck to him.

Pandhari Bhajan

When Sathya was about 10 years old, he formed the ‘Pandhari Bhajan Group’, a group of about sixteen to eighteen boys of the same age group. They sang folk songs and ballads. It was noticed that when cholera swept across the entire area, only Puttaparthi remained unaffected. The wise men felt it was due to the Pandhari Bhajans, which had the divine power to banish disease. Soon the fame of the Pandhari Bhajan Group spread and whenever there was an epidemic anywhere, this Bhajan group would be invited. They would go round singing bhajans and the epidemic would disappear.

Hanuman Mandir

In the month of Magh early in the morning, Sathya used to take all small boys of the village to the Hanuman Mandir. He sat at one place while the boys did parikrama (circumambulation) of the temple. One day the boys insisted that he too should join them in parikrama. As soon as Sathya took a step forward a big monkey came from nowhere and respectfully barred Sathya from proceeding. The boys were frightened and wanted to run away. Sathya calmed them and drew their attention to the respectful posture of the monkey and explained that this was no ordinary monkey but Hanuman himself. Hanuman was telling him that he may look like a young boy, but he had recognized that he was none other than Rama and he, Hanuman, was his das, his servant, thus if he did parikrama of a temple dedicated to Hanuman, a great sin would accrue to Hanuman. Sathya said that he had to accede to Hanuman’s pleas and would not do parikrama. The boys were thrilled to have had the rare darshan of Rama and Hanuman together. This event had a great impact on the minds of the young boys.

Kindness to All

Sathya could not bear cruelty to animals. When he was very small he used to keep away from places where goats, cattle or fowl were killed and where fish were caught. Whenever meat was cooked in the Raju household, Sathya used to run off to Subbamma’s house, for they were Brahmins and, therefore, vegetarians. When he was a little older, he was instrumental in stopping bullock cart races and cock fights in the village. When some boys collected some frogs in a basket and planned to take them home and make them hop and jump, he changed them into pigeons and they flew away. He taught the boys to be kind to all creatures.

Kamalapuram

Shortly thereafter Sheshama Raju was sent to Kamalapuram to do teacher’s training. Sathya was sent with him so that he would then be able to continue his schooling in a better school. Seshama Raju was convinced that he had the intelligence to attend college and become a Government officer. Although he was in Kamalapuram for a short time, it was there that he became famous for his sweet nature and miraculous powers. There is a saying that He manifested Himself at Uravakonda, but spread His glory from Kamalapuram.

After completing his teacher’s training, Seshama Raju was posted as a Telugu teacher to a school in Uravakonda. It was here that Sathya blossomed. His fame had preceded him when he arrived at Uravakonda. Soon he became the most popular boy in school, loved by both students and staff. On 8 March 1940, Sathya acted as if a scorpion had stung him, though no scorpion was ever found. This turned out to be an excuse to start the next phase of his manifestation, for there occurred a significant change in his personality. He would not answer when people spoke to him. He had no interest in food and would be silent most of the time, bursting into song and poetry sometimes, interspersed with reciting long Sanskrit stotras and talking the highest Vedanta.

Back to Puttaparthi

Seshama Raju was unnerved and at his prompting, their parents came and took Sathya to Puttaparthi. Various people suggested various cures. Kondama Raju drew the attention of the family members to a similar phase that Lord Rama and his brothers went through at about the same age. (see ‘Ramakatha Rasa Vahini’ by Sathya Sai Baba pages 44 to 49). The family Guru, Vashishta Muni, was called by Dasharath to find out what was wrong. Vashishta realized what the problem was and called Rama to him. Rama kept asking him profound spiritual questions, which Vashishta explained at length. This dialogue came to be known as Yoga Vashishta.

Despite Kondama Raju’s wise explanation, the family was not convinced and decided that Sathya had been possessed by a ghost and took him to a fearsome exorcist in Brahmanpalli near Kadiri. Kondama Raju was angry and was about to say something, but Sathya signed to him to keep silent, explaining later that this was all his leela. This devil incarnate of an exorcist subjected the sweet twelve year old boy through unspeakable tortures to ‘drive away’ the ghost. Ultimately the parents and sisters could not bear to see this anymore and managed to bring Sathya away after giving the exorcist enough money to compensate him for his efforts. Through all this Sathya remained unconcerned and unruffled. When they returned, Kondama Raju wept to hear all that had transpired and to see the scars on Sathya’s head. Sathya again explained that all this was his leela and such a thing will not happen again. This assuaged Kondama Raju, who was greatly pained.

To be continued ….