主 页                   |- 文 章                     |- 峇 峇 开 示               |- 每 月 精 选               |- 其 它		主页 >> 文章 >> 每月精选   2017/12 Hari Bhajan Bina...攀登人生高峰的灵性秘诀   作者：苏蕾士哥文达教授   第八章   Bhagavan Bina Koi Apna Nahi （除了神而外，无人真正属于你）   。。。承接上集   了解圣恩是生活所必需的，求道者现在或许转而热衷于想知道如何才能赢取圣恩。 ‘主的恩典是不能借一点虚伪的舍离或者只是一滴识别力就可以赢取的。为了获得圣恩，两种处方必须采纳：就俗世而言，说话要和蔼可亲；并且要说真话。要致力于赢取圣恩；圣恩是灵性修行的报偿 -- 最高的灵性修行是遵循导师的指示。’ 职是之故，灵性修行是斯瓦米正要我们去执行的主要任务。斯瓦米进一步强调这一点，祂说明， ‘神的恩典有如天降甘霖，亦如阳光。你必须执行某种灵性修习以获得之；要接收甘霖就要保持盆子竖立，要接纳太阳的光辉就要敞开你的心门...并祈求圣恩；但最少要执行这一点点灵性修行。圣恩会调整一切。其主要的结果是自我证悟，但也不乏其他附带的利益，如在世间的快乐美满生活，以及，冷静的、有勇气的脾气，建立于不会波动的镇定或平和之中。’ 理解圣恩在一个人的生命中的含义之后，诚恳的求道者也许有一个疑点，‘斯瓦米，但如果我被业障所束缚，我该怎么做。我确实要练习所有传授给我的灵性修行法门，但我过去的业难道不会以业的锁链把我给绑起来，并因此而阻止我演进。’ ‘你可以说，前世的业必须在今生完成或消耗掉，以及，再多的恩典也不能把人从业中救出来。显然，有人教你作如是想。但我要向你保证，你无需那样地受业障之苦。如果你受到剧痛的折磨，医生会给你注射吗啡而你就不会感到痛了，纵使痛还留在体内。圣恩有如吗啡，虽然经历疼痛，但不感觉到疼痛。圣恩带走你必须承受的业障的恶毒：你知道药物是有期限的，过了有效日期就宣告无效；好的，业的作用归于零，即使业的账户被呈现出来，主可以完全免除一个人的果报，就如我为那位虔诚者所做的一样，在几个月前的导师节的那个星期里，我把他的中风瘫痪与心脏病发作给承受过来。’ 由于激励的重大爆发，求道者或会采取某种灵性修行，但又由于怠惰或懒散，经过一段时日后就把它给放弃了。斯瓦米警告我们， ‘部分时间（或兼职）的虔诚（献身）只能获得部分时间的恩典。’ 歌的这一行虽不难理解但却形成体验的结果。它是一个指示；当个人意识开花结果时，就会产生一个认知：若没有祂的恩典，个人内心就会有一种不完整的感觉。斯瓦米说， ‘我的恩典总是和你在一起的。它不是某一种可以任意送出去又收回来的东西。它总是赐予的。然而，只有在对其意义具备意识的觉知才能接受之。要赢取你自己的潜意识的恩典，这样你才能接受随时为你准备好的神的恩典。’ 职是之故，在执行灵性修行时，灵性修行会调高我们的潜意识，使之敏锐化而觉知神的恩典。歌曲的这一行也提醒求道者，应该对恩赐的恩典，心存感激之情。 斯瓦米说了， ‘虔诚应该被视为一种感恩的表达，感恩你所获得的一切天意 -- 我们呼吸的空气、我们得到的太阳的光和热、我们喝的水及我们吃的食物。所有生命的必需品都得之于神的恩典。通过虔诚所作的感恩表达是一个主要的责任或人情债。所有这些以峇赞、持名、坐禅和祈祷的方式来执行的，都必须以感恩的精神来完成。 没有导师的指示，对‘ 我，个人，是空空如也于世上 ’的体会并不能灌输谦逊的品质。谦逊检验我们的人格并密切注意我们的自我。时时觉知蕴寓于我们人格之内的自我会随时涌现，是一种技艺以确保个人在生命中维持一个平衡点。斯瓦米说了， ‘只有一个既是满腹经纶又是谦逊虚心的人，他的人格才会开花兴旺。’ ‘神的恩典会浇淋于那些既谦卑又热衷于修行的人。要获得圣恩，谦卑是不可少的。要敬老尊贤。要满足于你所拥有的。要培育对大家的亲善。对任何人都不怀恶意。’ 纵使这简单的一行不具备哲理的内容与意义，它也能有自己的立脚地。设想一个生命中没有薄伽梵，或，就此而言，塑造和影响我们思想的导师，情况会怎么样。我们通常穿梭于家与办公室之间，全神贯注于日常生活的点滴、看着我们的孩子长大，拼搏和挣扎养家糊口，而当这些目标实现时，又到退休，望着窗外流逝的世界，的时候了。可悲地，我们老了，我们的骨骼弯了，我们的皮肤皱了，我们的眼睛模糊了而我们的脚在身体的重压下也步履蹒跚了。 我们默默地等候最后一刻的到来，对过去事物的脆弱记忆偶然投射在我们的心念屏幕上，但有关一个神圣的奋斗以及我们这一生所做出的贡献所带来的辉煌却没有什么可反思的。在我们生命中，一个导师的出现，灌输于我们某种使命感。随之而来的是一种冒险的感觉，一种生活的快感，转变每一刻为一个不可思议的事件，不仅利及个人也利及社会。体验变得充裕而圈子由只爱一人扩张到关怀社会和社区；这扩张的圈子成为追随导师指导方针之利益的见证。 不言而喻的是，假如一个人被他的存有（实体）和体验的内在核心所触动的话，这时就像是有一条不能忘怀的喜悦之河在川流不息。一个人的心念会永远记得那喜悦的泉源。众所周知，不论何时何地，一个母亲，即便在外地工作，她心念的某一部分自然想知道她的孩子在学校或在家里正做些什么。青少年常常有这种体验，就是当拥有一个物质时，就说是一辆跑车吧，不论他到哪儿，心念老惦念着那物质，跑车的样子，而开跑车时所带来的喜悦则不时出现在他心念的屏幕上。一首由流行音乐乐队发布的新歌，如果调子容易上口，就会被青少年常挂在嘴边哼着唱着，不是吗？调子萦绕在他心头，即便在他聚精会神地做其他的工作之时。是故，如果普通的体验会留下一个印象于其心念，而思想继续产生回忆并提供那客体的形象，肯定地，当求道者已经体验到最高的喜悦时，心念就决不会忘记那喜悦的泉源，在此，当然就是导师他自己了。思想拒绝忘记主的名号而心念继续重复念诵名号，即便在从事其他活动的当儿。心念，因此在忆念名号的同时也一定会回忆形相。导师到时就会成为求道者的母亲、父亲、向导、朋友以及一切。至高无上之主就会化身为导师的形相之中，而歌曲随着这一行而告一段落。。。   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 斯里沙迪亚赛这么说   “主的圣名有如东升太阳的光辉；它驱散虚幻的黑暗。它如圣灵一般的明亮和普遍；比糖的甜味更甜；比奶油或凝乳的味道更可口；比成熟的蜂蜜更甜蜜。念诵得越多，其回味越无穷。它确实是神圣的琼浆玉液。每天都要赞颂圣号。” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Hari Bhajan Bina...Spiritual Tips to climb the mountain of life by Professor Dr. Suresh Govind   Chapter 8   Bhagavan Bina Koi Apna Nahi   … Continue from Part 1   The seeker now is understanding that Grace is vital for living, may be earnest in knowing how to secure Grace. ‘The grace of the Lord cannot be won by a little pretence of detachment or just a grain of discrimination. In order to get that Grace, there are two prescriptions; speak lovingly, so far as the world is concerned; and speak the truth. Strive to acquire Grace; Grace is the reward for spiritual discipline - the highest spiritual discipline is to follow the instructions of the Master.’ Hence spiritual discipline is what primarily Swami is asking us to undertake. Swami emphasised this further by stating, ‘God’s Grace is as the shower of rain, as the sunlight. You have to do some spiritual discipline to acquire it; the spiritual discipline of keeping a pot upright to receive the rain, the spiritual discipline of opening the door of your heart, so that the sun may illumine it….Pray for Grace; but do at least this little spiritual discipline. Grace will set everything right. Its main consequence is Self-realisation but there are other incidental benefits too, like a happy contented life here below and a cool courageous temper established in unruffled equanimity or peace.’ The honest seeker upon understanding the implication of Grace in one’s life may have a doubt, `Swami, but what if I am bound by Karma. I do want to practise all the spiritual discipline that has been instructed but could not the past deeds that I have done bind me with karmic chains and therefore prevent me from evolving? ‘You might say that the Karma of the previous birth has to be consumed in this birth and that no amount of grace can save man from that. Evidently, someone has taught you to believe so. But I assure you, you need not suffer from karma like that. When a severe pain torments you, the doctor gives you a morphine injection and you do not feel the pain, though it is there in the body. Grace is like the morphine, the pain is not felt, though you go through it. Grace takes away the malignity of the karma which you have to undergo: you know there are dated drugs which are declared ineffective after a certain date; well the effect of karma is rendered null, though the account of karma is rendered of, the Lord can save a man completely from the consequence, as was done by Me to the Bhakta whose paralytic stroke and heart attacks I took over some months ago in the 'Sri Guru Poornima week.’ The seeker as a result of momentous outbursts of inspiration may undertake some form of spiritual discipline but as a result of sloth or laziness may after some time give this up. Swami warns us, ‘Part-time devotion can only receive part-time grace.’ The line in the song though simple to comprehend forms the result of the experience. It is an indication that the individual consciousness when fully blossomed and ripened enough, a realisation will dawn that without His grace there will be a feeling of incompleteness in that individual. Swami says, ‘My grace is ever with you. It is not something that is given or taken. It is given always. But it is accepted only when the consciousness is aware of its significance. Win the grace of your own sub-conscious, so that it may accept the grace of God, which is ever available.’ Hence the spiritual discipline when undertaken tunes up our subconscious to become sensitive and be aware of God’s grace. This line of the song also reminds the seeker that one should have gratitude for the grace that is conferred. Swami has said, ‘Devotion should be regarded as an expression of gratitude to all that one receives from Providence-the air that we breathe, the light and heat that we get from the sun, the water we drink and the food we consume. All the essential necessities of life are got by the Grace of God. The expression of gratitude through devotion is a primary obligation. All that is done by the way of bhajans, japa, meditation and prayer must be done in a spirit of gratitude.’ Without the teacher, the realisation that I, the individual is nothing in the world cannot instil the quality of humility. Humility checks our personality and keeps a vigilant eye on ego. To be constantly aware that the ego lurking in our personality may spring up is the technique to ensure that the individual retains a balance in life. Swami has said, ‘One’s personality blossoms only when one has humility along with knowledge.’ ‘God’s Grace will be showered on those who have humility and discipline. Humility is essential for securing God’s grace. Revere elders. Be content with what you have. Develop goodwill towards all. Bear no ill towards anyone.’ Even if this simple line is devoid of the dressings of the philosophical contents and connotations it can stand on its own. Imagine a life without Bhagavan or for that matter any teacher who has shaped and influenced our thoughts. The usual shuttling from house to office and vice versa, engrossed in the daily routine, watching our children grow, striving and struggling to make ends meet and by the time they do meet it is time to retire and watch the world pass by through our window panes. Sadly we age, our bones bent, our skin wrinkle, our eyes blur and our legs stagger under the weight of one’s own body. Quietly we wait for the final moments with weak recollections of the past occasionally darting onto our mind screen, but with nothing to reflect upon relating to the grandeur of a divine struggle and the contribution we have made to life and living in this world. The presence of a teacher, in our life instils in us, a sense of purpose. There comes a feeling of adventure, a thrill to live turning every second into an unimaginable event which brings benefits not only to one but society as well. The experiences become enriched and the expanding circle, from loving just one to caring for society and the community becomes the evidence of the benefits of following the teacher’s guide-lines. It is self-evident that when one is touched by the inner most cores of one’s being and experiences there is an unforgettable stream of steady joy. One’s mind will forever remember the source of that joy. It is the common experience that whenever and wherever a mother is, possibly working in the world outside, some portion of her mind naturally is devoted to wondering how and what her child is doing at school or at home. It is often the experience of the youth when in possession of an object, let us say a sports car, wherever he goes the mind goes on recalling the object, the picture of the sports car, and the joy it confers while riding in one constantly appear in his mind screen. Is it not true that a new song released by a pop group if it possesses a catchy tune is constantly hummed and sung by the youth? The tune goes on in his mind even when one is deeply engaged is doing other work. Hence if ordinary experiences leave an impression on the mind and the thoughts continue to generate memory and provide a picture of the object surely when the seeker has experienced the highest joy, the mind will never forget to remember the source of that joy who in this case is the teacher himself. The thoughts refuse to forget the name of the Lord and the mind continues to chant and repeat the name even while being engaged in other activities. The mind therefore in remembering the name will have to recall the form. The teacher will become a mother, father, teacher, guide, friend and everything to the seeker. The Supreme Lord becomes personified in the form of the teacher and the song concludes with the line …   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Thus Speak Sri Sathya Sai   “The Name of the Lord is like the effulgence of the rising sun; it dispels the Darkness of Delusion. It is as luminous, as universal and as Divine, sweeter than the sweetness of sugar; tastier than the taste of cream or curd; sweeter and tastier than the ripened honey. The more you chant, the more is the taste. It is Divine Nectar verily. Chant that Divine Name Daily.”   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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