Day 1 - "At the Door of Death"
第1天 - “「在死亡之門上」”
第1天 - “「在死亡之門上」”
1）Katha Upanishad - 「tha」意味著決賽。
生命的最後一件事是什麼？
結局是什麼？什麼是終極？
生命的最後一件事是什麼？
結局是什麼？什麼是終極？
2）每一個Upanishad都以Shanti Mantra開頭，
以Shanti Mantra結束。
「Shanti香提」的意思是「安祥」。
以Shanti Mantra結束。
「Shanti香提」的意思是「安祥」。
सहनाववतु。Oṁ Saha nāvavatu -
讓我們在一起
讓我們在一起
सहनौौुनक्तु。saha nau bhunaktu -
讓我們一起享受生活
讓我們一起享受生活
सहवीर्यंकरवावहै。Saha vīryam karavāvahai -
讓我們一起成長
讓我們一起成長
तेजस्विनावधीतमस्तु。Tejasvi nāvadhītamastu -
讓我們一起發光
讓我們一起發光
माविद्विषावहै 。Mā vidviṣāvahai
-讓我們彼此不討厭
-讓我們彼此不討厭
शान्तिःशान्तिःशान्तिः。 Oṁ Shāntiḥ, Shāntiḥ, Shāntiḥ
3）在和平的環境中你可以深入知識，但如果環境受到干擾你就無法深入知識。如果你的思想受到干擾，你必須做調息，瑜伽，靜心和淨化kriya，以平息它，只有這樣你才能談論更高的知識。當你靠近上師坐著的那一刻，
振波已經得到傳遞並且透過振波;心智已經變得平靜。
4）很久以前，有一個非常虔誠的人叫Vajashrav巴加須若巴斯。他因喜愛餵養人因而得名。沒有人會在他家裡挨餓。他會餵飽整個城鎮。
5）他的兒子長大以後以他的父親能放棄一切而感到驕傲。
因此，有一個名為“Vishwajit yagya”的祭祀慶典yagya，
意味著yagya祭祀慶典地舉行能贏得了宇宙。
因此，有一個名為“Vishwajit yagya”的祭祀慶典yagya，
意味著yagya祭祀慶典地舉行能贏得了宇宙。
6）耶穌祂做了什麼？他做了“Vishwajit yagya” - 他放棄了一切。同樣的佛陀和Adi Shankaracharya。 Yagya是一個將每個人聚集在一起的儀式，用它以紀念神聖，
這是我們回饋宇宙的一部分，在宇宙中我們一直在拿取。
這是我們回饋宇宙的一部分，在宇宙中我們一直在拿取。
7）Vishwajit yagya由Vajashravas完成，他在儀式上給出了他所擁有的一切。他有一個8歲的小兒子。他的名字叫
那區凱特Nachiketa。
那區凱特Nachiketa。
他看到父親給出了一切。他在父親身旁打轉，觀察他父親正在做什麼。他很有信心地看著一切。當那區凱特Nachiketa看到舊東西被送出時，他想:「這不好!這不會給我父親帶來功德」。我父親對我很有佔有的慾望。他也應該把我送走」。他去問他的父親:「你要把我送給誰」？他父親Vajashravas在忙並沒有回答他。 那區凱特Nachiketa一次又一次地問，死纏地打擾他。最後，父親Vajashravas惱怒地說：「我要把你送給死神！走開。」
9）（Guruji補充） - 我記得有一次，當我的妹妹很小的時候，她從學校回來告訴母親她在數學測試中得到零分。她高興地跳來跳去說：「我今天失敗了！我今天失敗了！ 」你應該為失敗感到難過！這就是父母教孩子失敗的原因並不好。但她很高興告訴所有人她失敗了。
什麼是失敗，什麼是成功？對於一個孩子來說沒關係。
10）（古儒吉補充） - 有一次我和姐姐去了我們叔叔的家。他用了從辦公室裡得到的所有假期。他告訴他的辦公室的人:他的兒子生病了，因此他可以帶我們去野餐。但是剛好有人從他的辦公室來到我家，我妹妹告訴這個人:「叔叔說他生病了，他正要外出野餐」。當我的叔叔聽到這個時，他說:「哦！我的聲譽已經去了」，“我妹妹馬上問道，「它去了哪裡？」
11）父親和母親通常會說要把我們丟掉但他們不是真有此意。有時候，在沮喪的時刻，他們會說出這樣的話。 那區凱特Nachiketa說：「是的，這是每個人都會死的地方。許多人已經死了，而那些活的人也將死亡。那些將來會出生的人也會死。當死亡是確定時，讓我現在就去。」
12）那區凱特Nachiketa想，「讓我成為第一個去死的人。每個人都會死。我早一點走。就像成熟的玉米落下一樣，會再次長出。一切都是短暫的。人們正在死去，我也會死。只是我早點去了。我要去見死神。」
13）那區凱特Nachiketa知道這是他的父親生氣時對他說的，但他仍然想見死神。這很美。這個奧義書是關於這個小男孩和死神之間的對話。
14）現在描述死亡的經歷 - Nachiketa會發生什麼。 Nachiketa的靈性離開了身體，去了閻王死神的住所。死神告訴他:「你會來到這裡，只是因為你父親話的的力量太強大了，這些話必須得到滿足。」「現在不是你的時間，回去吧。你仍須去探詢知識並給出愛。」那區凱特Nachiketa已經死了整整一個小時，而他的父親則感嘆並祈禱著。突然，男孩起身，且看起來光彩照人。死後重生是最美好的事情。就在那時，他提出了以那區凱特Nachiketa命名的整個火供儀式。
15) 他描述了什麼是死亡。 沒什麼好害怕的。 那區凱特Nachiketa 宣稱死亡是美麗的。 沒有恐懼，有永恆的靜默。 如果你讀過關於有瀕死體驗的人，他們都會說同樣的話。 他們穿過隧道，看到了光。 有時，光會告訴他們，現在還不是時候，他們應該回去。 同樣的事情發生在幾千年前的 那區凱特Nacihketa 身上。 他穿過耀眼的光芒，但被告知現在不是他的時間，他應該回去。 於是，那區凱特在遭遇死亡後又回來了。 這是一個故事。
16) 什麼是死亡？ 有什麼好害怕的嗎？ 死亡是如何發生的？「 榮耀死亡； 自殺的人不尊重死亡。 你必須記住這一點。」 對活著的渴望，導致自殺而不是死亡。 有很大的不同。 他們無法忍受痛苦； 他們無法擺脫它。 對他們來說，重要的是生命，而不是死亡。 於是，他們自殺了。那 與身體不同、
與周圍正在變化的一切的東西不同、
是靈性成長的核心。
18) 心從五種感官中取回，帶著這些感官的印象。一旦從身體裡彈出來，那感覺是那麼的自由；就像從籠子裡出來一樣！精神變得如此平靜。在平靜中，它也有渴望的印象。如果一個人喜歡冰淇淋、漢堡，這種喜愛會持續一段時間。精神需要三天，才能真正適應對方。你已經從身體裡出來了。你不知道如何進入身體。你也不感興趣——身體不再有趣了。它看起來像垃圾。假設你用過的紙巾扔進了垃圾桶，你會撿起來再用嗎？當靈魂從身體中跳出時，也會有同樣的感覺。它不再關心身體了。如果它願意，它會在別處帶走另一個身體。大約需要48小時，也就是3天才能適應另一邊，從這邊得到解脫。這是非常重要的。所以這三天來，親朋好友更加痛苦。三天后他們開始得到一些緩解。在古代，有十天的哀悼日。在這十天裡，你想哭多少就哭多少，在第十一天慶祝。你最多應該哀悼十天，不能再多了。
18) 心從五種感官中取回，帶著這些感官的印象。一旦從身體裡彈出來，那感覺是那麼的自由；就像從籠子裡出來一樣！精神變得如此平靜。在平靜中，它也有渴望的印象。如果一個人喜歡冰淇淋、漢堡，這種喜愛會持續一段時間。精神需要三天，才能真正適應對方。你已經從身體裡出來了。你不知道如何進入身體。你也不感興趣——身體不再有趣了。它看起來像垃圾。假設你用過的紙巾扔進了垃圾桶，你會撿起來再用嗎？當靈魂從身體中跳出時，也會有同樣的感覺。它不再關心身體了。如果它願意，它會在別處帶走另一個身體。大約需要48小時，也就是3天才能適應另一邊，從這邊得到解脫。這是非常重要的。所以這三天來，親朋好友更加痛苦。三天后他們開始得到一些緩解。在古代，有十天的哀悼日。在這十天裡，你想哭多少就哭多少，在第十一天慶祝。你最多應該哀悼十天，不能再多了。
2) Every Upanishad begins with Shanti Mantra and ends with Shanti Mantra. “Shanti” means “Peace”.
ॐ सह नाववतु । - Let us be together
सह नौ भुनक्तु । - Enjoy this life together
सह वीर्यं करवावहै । - Let us grow in strength together
तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु। - Let us glow together
मा विद्विषावहै I Let us not hate each other
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ - Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
3) You can go deep into knowledge in a peaceful environment, but you can’t do so if the environment is disturbed. If your mind is disturbed, you have to do pranayama, yoga, meditation and kriya, to calm it and only then you can talk about higher knowledge. The minute you sit close to the Master, the vibration is already getting transferred and by the vibration; the mind is already becoming calm.
4) Long long ago, there lived a very pious man called Vajashravas. He got this name because of his passion for feeding people. Nobody would go hungry from his house. He would feed the entire town.
5) His son was very proud of his father, when he grew up; he was too wanted to give away everything. Thus there is a “yagya” called “Vishwajit yagya”, which means the yagya performed to win the universe.
6) What did Jesus do? He did “Vishwajit yagya” – he gave away everything. The same Buddha and Adi Shankaracharya do. Yagya is that ritual ceremony which brings everyone together, which honors the Divine, which is a part of our giving back to universe, from where we have been taking all the time.
7) The Vishwajit yagya was done by Vajashravas and he gave away whatever he had, in the ceremony. He had a small eight year old son. His name was Nachiketa.
He saw his father giving everything away. He was running around and observing what his father was doing. He was watching everything with a lot of faith. When Nachiketa saw old things being given away, he thought, “This is not good. This is not going to bring merit to my father. My father is so possessive of me. He should give me away too.” He went and asked his father”, “To whom are you going to give me?” Vajashravas was engaged in something and did not reply. Nachiketa kept on asking again and again, pulling and bothering him. Finally, Vajashravas got irritated and said, “I give you to death! Get lost.”
9) (Guruji adds) – I remember once, when my sister was very young, she came back from school and told mother that she got zero in math test. She was happily jumping around and saying, “I failed today! I failed today! “You should be sad about failing! That’s what parents teach children that failing is not good. But she was happy and telling everybody that she failed. What is failure, what is success? For a child it doesn’t matter.
10) (Guruji adds) – Once I and my sister went to our uncle’s house. He had used all the official leaves that he got from his office. He informed his office that he was sick son that he could take us for a picnic. But someone from his office came to the house and my sister told him, “Uncle is saying that he is sick and he is taking out for a picnic.” When my uncle heard this, he said, “Oh! My reputation has gone, “My sister asked immediately, “Where did it go?”
11) Fathers and mothers usually tell us to get lost but they really don’t mean it. Sometimes, in moments of frustration, they say such things. Nachiketa said, “Yes this is the place where everybody dies. So many have died and those who are living will also be dead. Those who will come in the future will also die. When death is certain, let me go there now.”
12) Nachiketa thought, “Let me be the first to go among those who are going to die. Everyone is going to die. I will go a little earlier. Like corn which ripens and falls and then, comes up again. Everything is temporary. People are dying and I will also die. It’s just that I am going a little early. I am going to go to the Lord of Death,”13) Nachiketa knew that his father said it in anger, but he still went to death. This is very beautiful. This Upanishad is about the dialogue of this young boy and the Lord of Death.
14) Now the experience of death is described here – What happens to Nachiketa. The spirit of Nachiketa left the body and went to abode of Yama, the lord of death. Yama told him, “You have come here just because your father’s words are so powerful and they had to be fulfilled. It is not your time yet, go back. You still have to acquire knowledge and give love.” Nachiketa was dead for one whole hour while his father lamented and prayed. Suddenly, the boy got up and looked effulgent. Having met death and then coming back to life was most wonderful thing. It was then that he propounded the whole fire ceremony, named after Nachiketa.
15) He described what death is. It is nothing to be afraid of. Nachiketa proclaims that death is beautiful. That there is no fear, there is eternal silence. If you have read about people having near death experience they all say the same thing. They go through a tunnel and see a light. Sometimes the light tells them that it is not yet time and they should go back. The same thing happened some thousands of years ago to Nacihketa. He went through effulgent light, but was told that it was not his time, and that he should go back. So, Nachiketa came back after an encounter with death. This is one story.
16) What is death? Is it something to be afraid of? How does death happen? Honor death; people who commit suicide are not honoring death. You must remember this. The craving for living, results in suicide not in death. There is a big difference. They can’t bear the pain; they can’t get rid of it. Their life is important for them, not death. So, they commit suicide. That which is different from the body, different from everything around that is changing, is central to spiritual growth.
17) What happens in process of death? What happens to you when you die? First the mind withdraws from the five senses with their impression. You stop feeling, numbness comes. Sensation in the body disappears. Then sight gets blurred and vision goes away. Sense of touch goes away, sense of taste goes away, sight goes away, and then smells and finally sound disappears. When somebody is dying, they keep a candle burning so that if the soul, the spirit leaves the body, it can feel the light, see the light and remind itself that it is light and move on. This ritual is there in all ancient traditions.
18) The mind retrieves from the five senses, with the impressions of those senses. Once it snaps out of the body, it feels such a freedom; it is like coming out of cage! The spirit becomes so peaceful. In its peace, it also has impressions of craving. If a person is fond of ice cream, burger, that fondness will remain there for some time. It takes three days for the spirit, to really adjust to the other side. You have come out of the body. You don’t know how to get into the body. It doesn’t interest you also - the body is not interesting anymore. It looks like garbage. Suppose you have used a tissue and thrown it in the garbage, will u take it and use it again? The same feeling comes to the spirit when it snaps out of the body. It doesn’t care about the body anymore. If it wants, it will take another body somewhere else. It takes almost 48 hours, i.e., 3 days to get used to the other side, to get relief from this side. It is very significant. That is why for three days, friends and relatives are in more anguish. They start getting some relief after three days. In ancient days, ten days were kept for mourning. In these ten days, you could cry as much as you wanted and celebrate on the eleventh day. You should mourn for a maximum of ten days, no more.
19) There is a time zone here but when you leave the body the time zone changes. Six months here is a day there and six months here is night there. One whole year is one day there.
20) In the process of death, one sense gets into the other and finally, the mind, with all the impressions of the five senses, it snaps out. Though it snaps out, it still has the ability to listen to sound. That’s why singing and chanting is very good for people on other side. Meditating is very good for people on the other side. Your meditation, your peace touches their soul. It gives them relief. If you are crying and feeling miserable, they also feel that misery.
21) For the first three days, it is intense and after three days, the soul starts adjusting to the other realm. It keeps away from this. Very few souls are earth bound; they don’t go far for long time. They stick on. They are very few, 0.1%. Someone who is fond of chicken will be found in a poultry farm. That is why last impression of your life is very important. It becomes like a balloon over the spirit.
22) Some people lost interest in food when they are nearing death. Some crave for more food towards the end of life. In that case, within those ten days, it is good to feed some people, the food the deceased were fond of. When they smell those foods, the spirit feels, “Ok, I have had this for now.” It gives them some sort of relief.
23) For three days, Nachiketa waited at the door of death but the Lord of Death did not come. Nachiketa didn’t eat anything. He was there – poised, peaceful, calm and uplifted spirit. Even death became apologetic to him.
24) Yama gave three boons to the boy – “I owe you three boons because you have been so calm, so quiet, you have meditated, you have been spiritual. You have been thinking of something higher.”
25) Nachiketa said, “O Lord of Death, as the first of these three boons, grant that my father’s anger be appeased, so that when I return he may receive me with love.”
26) First boon is granted – let my father’s anger be appeased. Many times, as seekers when you meditate you feel, “Nothing is happening to me.” Do you know why? Because some of your merits are being passed on to your forefathers. There is no escape from it. When you meditate or do something good, a portion of it, those good vibes are passed on automatically. It is like clearing your past debt. When you meditate, a little amount of merit goes to those who gave you this body. Somebody gave you this body and because of it, you are doing. So some portion of your merit gets or somebody passes on and you automatically inherit. Whether it is their loans or earnings, they just fall on your head. In the same way, in subtle world also, these things get transferred. A sanyasi or a monk is the one who, while living, completely fulfills all duties and obligations and washes his hands off. Then there is no connection with the ancestors of any sort. That is monkhood – sanyasi, fourth of ashrams.
27) First 25 years learn as much as you can – the student life. Next 25 years enjoy your life as a house holder. Settle down, get married, have children and all that. Third quarter of your life, from 50-75 years is Vanaprastha, be a social worker. It means there is no more ’my, my, my’! Now you are for everybody in the society. You share yourself with everybody and you are godfather or godmother to everybody. Broaden you scope from ‘only my child’, to ‘our children’. The last quarter – from the age of 75 to 100 years, you are supposed to live as a recluse. You are in a state of “I am nothing, I want nothing”. These are four stages of ashrams in life. Some take a jump from first to fourth; they don’t have to go through the middle.
Courtesy- Knowledge Sessions [Discourse by H.H.Sri Sri Ravishankarji]
1）當一顆純潔的心，一顆真誠的心在任何行動中移動，甚至死亡向他們鞠躬致敬。有智慧的尋求者是至高無上的。死亡弓在他們面前。 Nachiketa問的第一個恩惠是，“讓我父親的脾氣冷卻下來。當我回到家時，讓他帶著愛接待我。
“閻王勳爵說，”好的，已經完成了。“這顯示出無辜 - 儘管父親的憤怒，兒子卻沒有對父親生氣。他希望他的父親好。他希望他的父親能夠享受他正在做的yagya的優點。所以他要求，“讓我父親帶著愛接待我。”
2）每個生命的自然慾望都是安慰，進入一個沒有痛苦，沒有悲傷的地方。人生的目標是走向天堂。天堂意味著沒有死亡，沒有破壞，沒有老年，沒有痛苦的地方。這個地方在哪裡？它在天堂的某個地方嗎？到那裡怎麼走？你應該做些什麼來到一個只有幸福的狀態？這是第二個恩賜，死亡之王教Nachiketa如何獲得天堂。如何在沒有痛苦的地方獲得天堂。
3）每個人都想進入天堂是很自然的。怎麼樣？死神教你。死亡不是殘酷，死亡是非常富有同情心的。死亡之王教Nachiketa死亡的全部意義。它不會帶走生命，它可以增強生命。對死亡的了解使生活變得非常豐富。
4）在加利福尼亞州，90年代早期，當我們在海灣地區教授課程時，有一群艾滋病毒陽性並患有癌症的人，其中一人分享：“從我意識到自己患有艾滋病的那一刻起，我每時每刻都活著。我的生活變得更加珍貴。這些年來，我根本就沒有生活。我剛才存在。我從不關心自己的生活。現在我知道我要死了，我突然變得如此活躍。這種病帶入了我的生活。我感激不盡。他看起來很高興。“他們的臉上有這樣的光芒;沒人能說他們生病了。 “我將要死”的知識以某種方式點燃了光。
Day 2 - "Beyond Death"
1) When a pure heart, a sincere heart moves in any action, even death bows to them. A seeker with wisdom is supreme. Death bows in front of them. The first boon Nachiketa asked was, “Let my father’s temper get cooled down. Let him receive me with love when I return back home.
“Lord Yama said, “OK, that’s done.” That shows innocence - how in spite of father’s anger, the son didn't get angry at the father. He wished good for his father. He wanted his father to enjoy merits of the yagya he was doing. So he requested, “Let my father receive me with love.”
2) The natural desire of every life is to have comfort, to get into a place where there is no misery, no sorrow. The goal of human life is to move towards heaven. Heaven means a place where there is no death, no destruction, no old age, where there is no suffering. Where is this place? Is it somewhere up in the heaven? How to get there? What you should do to get to a state where there is only bliss? This was the second boon, the lord of Death taught Nachiketa how to attain heaven. How to attain heaven, where there is no misery.
3) It is but natural for every human being to want to be in heaven. How? Death teaches you. Death is not cruel, death is very compassionate. The lord of death teaches Nachiketa what death is all about. It doesn't take away life, it enhances life. Knowledge of death makes life very rich.
4) In California, in the early 90’s when we were teaching courses in the bay area, with a group of people, who were HIV positive and had cancer, one of them shared, “From the moment I realized that I have AIDS, I lived every moment. My life has become much more precious. All those years, I was not living at all. I just existed. I never cared about my life. Now that I know I am going to die, I have suddenly become so alive. This disease has brought into my life. I feel so grateful. He looked so uplifted.” There was such glow on their faces; nobody could say that they were sick. The knowledge that “I am going to die” had somehow kindled the light.
5）我覺得這很有趣。我多麼希望人們意識到即使沒有疾病我們也會死！我的工作將完成。如果每個人都明白他們會死，他們為什麼會生氣或貪婪？為什麼他們會擔心？他們在白天和黑夜都感受到的所有這些消極情緒都會消失。生活會變得簡單得多。人們應該明白它是如此簡單。這是一個時間問題，只有幾年。它有什麼不同。你有一天都會完成。這個走路，說話的身體會變得沉默。這種死亡意識可以讓你更加活躍。它可以讓你沉睡，它帶來了天堂。
6）從早到晚你所擔心的一切都是快樂和舒適。為此，你盡一切可能，破壞自己，自己的思想。這種快樂和安慰都不會永遠伴隨著你，絕對不是在最後一刻。它不是那麼令人愉快。我們老師的一位母親正在死去。她告訴他“去看看Guruji在另一邊是怎麼回事。我不習慣在新的地方。“他過來問我，”她不習慣在新的地方睡覺。她擔心她的死亡。“我們都為了舒適和快樂做錯事
7）Nachiketa被指示爬上天堂的台階。那些步驟是什麼？他被教會如何匯集720塊磚，如何組織它們。這是一個秘密。想想，這是什麼720？ Nachiketa了解了這一切。當門徒快速學習時，這是老師的驕傲。死亡之王非常高興。 “你以這樣的誠意，誠實和如此敏銳的關注學到了這一點;我會給你一件禮物。“他給了Nachiketa一條項鍊。他清醒的頭腦，敏銳的智慧，他掌握和理解的能力使他感到高興，他給了一個額外恩惠的禮物。死神給Nachiketa的美麗禮物是什麼？
8）然後Nachiketa要求第三個恩惠，“當有人死亡時，有人說他們仍然存在，有人說他們除了死神之外沒有其他人可以教我這個。你知道真相。我想知道當一個人去世時會發生什麼。“
9）很少有人對此感到好奇。我們認為生活是理所當然的，我們認為死亡是理所當然我們從不懷疑生命後會發生什麼？什麼是死亡？怎麼回事？我們死後，我們去哪裡？我們住在這裡好像我們永遠在這裡一樣。在某種程度上它是正確的。你的靈魂甚至在石頭和樹木之前一直在這裡。你的精神太老了。這不是我們思考的方式 - 身體先行，然後是精神。精神來到第一，然後身體形成。這就是子宮裡發生的事情。如果精神不存在，身體就不會形成。先是精神然後是物質。甚至在這個星球上存在任何東西之前，你就在那裡，我就在那裡。我們來過這裡很多次了。這不是第一次。我知道。我只希望你至少記得一點點。
10）閻王說：“別問我這個。請釋放我這個承諾。這種懷疑困擾著這麼多人。他們還不知道。請問別的什麼。我會給你任何其他恩惠，但不要問我死亡的秘密。“
11）有五個很大的秘密。死亡的秘密和出生的秘密就在其中。死神之王說：“問別的。尋求快樂，請求可愛的女性。無論你想要什麼 - 你想要一個王國，我都會把它給你。請留下我的意思。自從我答應以來，我必須兌現我的承諾。但請不要問我死亡的秘密。“
12）Nachiketa說：“當我看到死亡時，生命即將來臨。這在生活中是不可避免的，我會對你所提供的一切做些什麼？你保留你的戰車;你為自己保留你的馬匹，美麗的女人。當你（死亡）盯著我的臉時，我怎麼能享受這一切？有什麼用？他們在那裡待了一會然後他們不在那裡;如此短暫。他們磨損了生命的力量。“
5) I felt that was interesting. How I wish people were aware that we are going to die, even without disease! My job would be done. If everyone understood that they are going to die, why would they be angry or greedy? Why would they be worried? All this negativity that they are feeling in a day and night would simply disappear. Life would become much simpler. People should understand it is so simple. It is a matter of time, only a few years. What difference it makes. You are all going to be finished one day. This walking, talking body will become silent. This awareness of death can make you much more alive. It can take slumber out of you and it brings heaven right here.
6) All that you are worried about from morning till evening is pleasure and comfort. For that you do everything possible, destroying your own self, your own mind. Neither that pleasure nor comfort is going to be with you forever, and definitely not in the last moment. It is not so pleasurable. One of our teacher’s mother was dying. She sent him “Go and ask Guruji how it is on the other side. I am not used to being in new places.” He came and asked me, “She is not used to sleeping new places. She is concerned about her death.” We all do wrong things for comfort and pleasure
7) Nachiketa was instructed to climb the steps of heaven. What are those steps? He was taught how to bring together 720 bricks, how to organize them. This is a secret. Think, what is this 720? Nachiketa learnt all this. When the disciple learns fast, it is the pride of the teacher. The lord of death got very pleased. “You learnt this with such sincerity, honesty and with such sharp attention; I will give you one more gift.” He gave Nachiketa a necklace. Pleased by his clarity of mind, sharpness of intellect, his ability to grasp and understand, he gave a gift as an extra boon. What was the beautiful gift that the Lord of Death gave Nachiketa?
8) Then Nachiketa asks for third boon, “When someone dies, some say they still exist, some say they don’t who else can teach me this other than Lord of Death. You know the truth. I want to know what happens when a person dies.”
9) Very few people are curious about it. We take life for granted, we take death for granted. We never question what happens after life? What is death? How it happens? Where do we go after we die? We live here as though we have been here forever. In one way it is correct. Your spirit has been here even before the stones and trees. Your spirit is so old. It is not the way we think – that body comes first and then spirit. The spirit comes first and then body gets formed. That’s what happens in the womb. If the spirit is not there, the body will not be formed. Spirit first and then matter. Even before anything existed on this planet, you were there, I was there. We have been here many times. This is not first time. I know it. I only wish you remember a little bit at least.
10) Yama said, “Don’t ask me this. Please release me from this promise. This doubt has haunted so many people. They haven’t known it. Please ask for anything else. I will give you any other boon, but don’t ask me secret of death.”
11) There are five great secrets. The secret of death and secret of birth are among them. The lord of Death said, “Ask anything else. Ask for pleasure, ask for lovely women. Whatever is your desire – you want a kingdom, I will grant it to you. Leave me with this. Since I have promised, I have to fulfill my promise. But please don’t ask me the secret of death.”
12) Nachiketa said, “When I see death, It is imminent in life. It is unavoidable in life, what do I do with all that you are offering? You keep your chariot; you keep your horses, your beautiful women for yourself. When you (death) are staring at my face, how can I enjoy all this? What use is it? They are there for a moment and then they are not there; so momentary. They wear out vital powers of life.”
13）幸福和快樂有所不同。幸福激勵著你，快樂耗盡你。快樂是瞬間的，並且消耗了prana;能量消失了。五種感官的能力有限。無論食物多麼美味，你的體力都不能超過你的體系。你不能享受更多的性生活，而不是你的身體可以回應。你不能永遠聽音樂。你只能在某種程度上享受。五種感官的能力有限，但心靈有無限的慾望。享受的慾望和感官享受的能力之間存在著不平衡。然後出現衝突。你感到很痛苦。他並不是說享受五感，享受生活樂趣是錯誤的。沒有什麼不對，但讓它比生命本身更重要是災難性的。
14）納奇克塔說：“我不會為此而努力。”這是我與你面對面的難得機會。現在，請教我。“
15）印度教傳統的最後儀式非常棒。因為離去的人仍然可以聽到，他們告訴他，“你過著美好的生活。你的身體由五個元素組成。讓地球元素走向地球。讓水元素去水。讓火被火燒掉，空氣元素回到空中。你很輕鬆。合併在Universal Light中。這是你來自哪裡。你沒有瑕疵。你沒有罪。你沒有印象。你只是純粹的快樂。你是愛的化身。回到你的來源。從那裡祝福整個創作。你現在什麼都不需要。走。願你有自由，願你有自由，也許你有自由。“這就是被吟唱的咒語。
16）不幸的是，沒有人知道他們在念誦什麼。沒有人用他們能理解的語言向他們解釋。他們只是念誦，做禮儀並回到家里而不理解他們在說什麼。希望靈魂可能理解那種語言。
13) There is difference in bliss and pleasure. Bliss energizes you, pleasure depletes you. Pleasure is momentary and drains prana; energy goes out. The capacity of the five senses is limited. However tasty the food is, you can’t take more than what your system can take. You can’t enjoy more sex more than your body can respond to. You cannot listen to music forever. You can enjoy only to some degree. The five senses have limited capacity but the mind has unlimited desire. There is an imbalance between the desire to enjoy and capability of the senses to enjoy. Then conflict arises. You feel miserable. He is not saying it is wrong to enjoy the five senses, to enjoy pleasures of life. There is nothing wrong, but giving it more importance than life itself is disastrous.
14) Nachiketa said, “I won’t go for anything less than this. It is a rare opportunity that I have come face to face with you. Now, please teach me.”
15) The last rites in Hindu tradition are fantastic. Because the departed person can still hear, they tell him, “You have lived a grand life. Your body is made up of five elements. Let the earth element go to earth. Let the water element go to water. Let fire be consumed by fire, and the air element go back to air. You are light. Merge in the Universal Light. This is where you have come from. You have no blemish. You have no sin. You have no impression. You are just pure joy. You are love incarnate. Go back to your source. Bless the whole creation from there. You need nothing now. Go. May you be free, may you be free, and may you be free.” This is what the mantras that are chanted mean.
16) Unfortunately nobody understands what they are chanting. Nobody explains to them in the language they can understand. They simply chant, do the ritual and go back home without understanding what they are saying. With the hope that perhaps the soul understands that language.
17）你知道為什麼人們將他們的祖先的名字給他們的孩子嗎？甚至在英國傳統中也是如此。國王通常給孩子的名字喬治五世，愛德華三世等等。這個傳統來自吠陀時代。一個人最大的依戀就是他們的孫子孫女。父母不僅僅是祖父母，還有孩子。他們可能是為他們而生。這種情況多次發生。你出生在同一個家庭，因為你的依戀，因為你的世界是有限的。附件很強大，這也是他們保持同名的原因。如果有人對某人有過深深的厭惡，那麼他們就是為他們而生。你最強烈的渴望，最強烈的恐懼和厭惡決定了你的下一個生命。大鼠出生於貓。他們不是天生的狗。
問題與解答：
問）死後他人可以溝通嗎？
答：在死亡中，只有身體與精微的身體和隨意的身體分離。微妙的身體是所有印象的地方。絕對是來自另一方的溝通。在這個意義上的溝通，有一個見證。就像你在熱氣球上，你可以看到發生的一切。您無法對流量做任何事情。你可以看到有交通堵塞，但你在熱氣球中，你繼續前進。
問）我們有什麼方法可以幫助昏迷的人嗎？
答：昏迷是一種你失去三種感官的狀態，但在精神上有警覺性。你仍然保持著視覺和聽覺的感覺。而你還沒有離開身體;你在這種狀態下呆了很長時間。有些人可以從那個州回來，再次感受到所有的感官。這就像進入陽台然後回到裡面。祝福一直在運作。卡瑪在那裡扮演著重要角色。業力意味著微妙身體的所有印象。它決定了你的下一個生活，你將來到哪裡。
問）當某人不自然地死亡時會發生什麼，例如在事故中或通過自殺？
答：當一個靈魂在一次事故中死去時，那個靈魂會持續一段時間。有一些祈禱和儀式讓他們擺脫它。自殺就像是說“我感覺很冷”，並且仍在拆除所有的夾克。這是一個瘋狂的舉動。這就像一個孩子哭得很難入睡但不能。你不知道怎麼睡覺，你想睡覺，你哭。同樣地，它太冷了，而不是穿上更多的毯子，你正在脫衣服。這正是自殺的原因。自殺並不能使那個人擺脫他自殺的痛苦。事實上，它與他們在一起的時間更長，他們回來了，他們必須重生。
Q）如果你擺脫了厭惡和渴望，那麼你還會回來嗎？
答：是的，那麼你會從慈悲中回來。然後你作為一個自由的人回來;你回來，做點什麼然後回去。
17) Do you know why people give their ancestor’s names to their children? This is there even in British tradition. Kings usually give the name of grandfather to the child, George V, Edward III etc. This tradition has come from Vedic times. The biggest attachment for a person is in the old age to their grandchildren. More than parents, grandparents are attached to the children. They might be born to them. This happens many times. You are born in the same family, because of your attachment, because your world is limited. The attachment is strong and that’s why they keep the same name also. If someone has a deep aversion to somebody, they are born to them. Your strongest craving, your strongest fear and aversion determines your next life. Rats are born as cats. They are not born as dogs.
Question and Answers:
Q) Is communication possible with someone after their death?
Ans: In death, only physical body gets separated from the subtle body and casual body. Subtle body is where all impressions are. Definitely there is communication from the other side. Communication in the sense, there is a witness from there. Like you are on the hot air balloon and you can see everything happening down. You can’t do anything about the traffic. You can see there is traffic jam, but you are in the hot balloon and you keep moving.
Q) Is there any way that we can help people in coma?
Ans: Coma is a state where you lose three senses, but mentally there is alertness. You still hold on to the sense of sight and sound. And you have not left the body; you stay in that state of limbo for a longer time. Some can come back from that state and feel all the senses again. It is like going in the balcony and returning back inside. Blessings works all the time. Karma plays a big role there. Karma means all the impressions in the subtle body. It determines your next life, where you will come.
Q) What happens when someone dies unnaturally, like in an accident or through suicide?
Ans: When a soul dies in an accident, that soul lingers on for a certain time. There are some prayers and rituals to make them free from that. Suicide is like saying, “I am feeling cold,” and still removing all the jackets. It is a crazy act. It is like a child crying so hard to sleep but can’t. You don’t know how to sleep, you want to sleep and you cry. Similarly, it is so cold and instead of putting more blankets on, you are removing clothes. This is exactly what suicide is. Suicide doesn't get that person out of the misery for which he is committing suicide. In fact, it remains with them for longer time and they come back, they have to be born again.
Q) If you are rid of aversion and craving, then do you still come back?
Ans: Yes, then you come back out of compassion. Then you come back as a free person; you come back, do something and you go back.
第3天 - “神聖的恩典”
1）所以當Nachiketa被提供所有這些誘惑時，“你可以成為世界之王，國王之王，你可以擁有美麗的女孩，在你身邊唱歌和跳舞”，他笑著說，“不。但是，我想從你們這裡得到死亡的秘密？“當這個男孩堅定的時候。 “我只想要最高;我不想要你給我的任何其他綏靖政策，“死亡之王很高興。這是一個真正的好學生，一個非常好的尋求者;他的耐心和堅持不懈使他感到高興。然後他稱讚Nachiketa。
2）當你獲得快樂時，你選擇了解放。他們都有不同的用戶。那個為了解放而獲得快樂的人也來到他身邊。那個只為了快樂而去的人，只有痛苦才歸於他。他不僅遭受痛苦，而且被剝奪了最高的權利。你選擇了這條解放之路，所以你也會得到所有其他的快樂。他們會跟著你。“可以肯定的是，選擇這條知識路徑的人是幸運的，因為他得到了兩者。但如果你只選擇了快樂，那麼你將被剝奪這種最高知識，這種美好的知識，這是人類生命的誕生權。
3）這就是閻所說的，它太美了。 “我認為你值得發表指示，因為這些都不會分散你的注意力;你的注意力不在於此，你的注意力在於真實。不是金錢，不是權力，不是地位，不是聲譽，不是這一點。“梵語中有一個美麗的對聯，說快樂對人們來說至關重要 - 食物，性，享受。更難以克服的是聲譽和認可。一旦你擁有它，你很難擁有它。許多人都被這兩個人所吸引 - 樂趣和聲譽。勇敢的跨越聲譽。他們不擔心，因為他們知道這一切都是暫時的。人們對你的看法 - 他們沒有時間，他們都會忘記。
4）醒來後，即使在這個城市也有數百萬人。在這些數百萬人中，只有少數人有機會聽到這個消息。一些精神之路走。很少有人聽說過它。在聽到的少數人中，有一些人真正掌握了它。一些人如何能夠熟練地談論它，這是一個奇蹟。這是一件抽象的事情;談論它需要一些技巧。而且有些人能夠表達它是一個奇蹟。這是一項技能，它甚至是一個更大的奇蹟 - 一些人如何巧妙地吸收它！
5）克里希納勳爵在梵歌中說：“在數百萬人中，只有少數人會走上精神之路。在那些走路的人中，只有少數人會認識我。“很少有人真正達到目標，誰理解這一點，這本身就是一個奇蹟。你不會只是通過聽很多談話，閱讀書籍或做練習來獲得它。現在這可能會導致沮喪。我們做什麼？ “我聽，我讀，我做了這一切。我不明白嗎？“沒辦法。急於獲得它本身就成了一個障礙。放鬆。這是想要捕捉的自我，現在想要獲得它。智力和自我都無法捕捉它或你的努力。神的恩典可以看到自我的榮耀，而不是你的努力。你做了所有的努力，然後終於通過恩典來實現。
6）曾經在拉瑪勳爵的王國里，有人向狗扔了一塊石頭。拉瑪的王國被認為是非暴力的，所有人都有真理和正義。所以狗去尋求正義 - 動物權利！它去了拉瑪並要求每個人都有路，狗也可以在路上行走。拉瑪勳爵聽到這話說：“這是正確的。這條路適合所有人。“他召集扔石頭的人。在那些日子裡，受害者將決定懲罰罪魁禍首。所以他們問狗，“你想給這個人甚麼懲罰？”那隻狗說：“讓他成為修行者的頭”。拉瑪勳爵說：“這是一個如此奇怪的要求。”狗說：“我過去一生也是修行者的頭。我認為成為一隻狗比一個修行者的頭更好。在我自己的Sankalpa，我成了一隻狗。讓他通過那個。讓他成為一個修行者的頭。“
7）有許多人聽說靈性，許多人走在路上。仍然很難實現。它與基礎課程相同。你看到許多人都聽過，許多人也教過，“接受人們的本性;不要成為別人的足球觀點;別擔心其他人的錯誤背後的意圖;生活在當下。“需要一輩子的時間來練習並完善它。不要以為只做一次基礎課程，你就完善了藝術。不要認為通過向許多人講授課程，你已經完善了這門藝術。在你的生活中吸取這五點是一生的挑戰。
1) So when Nachiketa was offered all these temptations, “You can be the lord of the world, the king of kings, you can have beautiful girls, singing and dancing around you”, he said with a smile, “No. But what I want from you us the secret of death?” When the boy was adamant. “I only want the highest; I don’t want any of these other appeasements that you are giving me,” the lord of death was pleased. This is a real good student, a really good seeker; He was pleased by his patience, his perseverance. Then he praised Nachiketa.
2) You have chosen liberation when pleasure was offered to you. They both have got different users. The one who goes for liberation the pleasure also comes to him. The one who goes only for pleasure, only misery comes to him. Not only does he get misery, he is deprived of the Highest. You have chosen this path of liberation, so you will get all other pleasures as well. They follow you.” What is certain is that the one who chooses this path of knowledge is lucky in the sense he gets both. But if you have chosen only pleasure, you will be deprived of this highest knowledge, this beautiful knowledge, which is the birth right of human life.
3) This is what Yama said, and it’s so beautiful. “I consider you worthy of giving that instruction because none of this could distract you; your attention is not on that, your attention is on what is real. Not money, not power, not position, not reputation, none of this.” There is a beautiful couplet in Sanskrit that says that pleasures are of utmost importance for people – food, sex, enjoyment. More difficult to get over is reputation and recognition. Once you have it, it is so difficult for you not to have it. Many are caught in these two – pleasure and reputation. The brave cross beyond reputation. They don’t worry because they know it is all temporary. What people think about you – they don’t have time, they will all forget.
4) Just wake up and see there are millions of people even in this city. Among those millions, only a few are getting a chance to hear about this. A few walk on spiritual path. Few people hear about it. Among the few who hear, a few really grasp it. It is a wonder how some people can speak about it with skill. It is such an abstract thing; some skill is needed to talk about it. And that’s a wonder how some people are able to express it. It’s a skill and it is even a greater wonder – how some people are skillfully able to imbibe it!
5) Lord Krishna said in Gita, “Among millions of people, only a few will walk on spiritual path. Among those who walk, only a few will know me.” Few are those who really reach the goal, who understand this and it is a wonder in itself. You are not going to get it just by listening to a lot of talks, reading books or doing practices. Now this can cause frustration. What do we do? “I listen, I read, I do all this. I don’t get it?” No way. The hurry to get it becomes an impediment in itself. Relax. It’s the ego that wants to capture, which wants to get it now. Neither the intellect nor the ego can capture it, or your efforts. The glory of the Self is seen by the grace of the Divine, not by your effort. You do all your effort and then finally it happens by the grace.
6) Once in Lord Rama’s kingdom somebody threw a stone at a dog. Rama’s kingdom was considered to be very non-violent and there was truth and justice for all. So the dog went to ask for justice – animal rights! It went to Rama and demanded that road is for everybody and dogs can also walk on the road. Lord Rama heard this and said, “That’s correct. The road is for everybody.” He summoned the person who threw the stone. In those days, the victim would decide the punishment for the culprit. So they asked dog, “What punishment do you want to give to this person?” And the dog said, “Make him the head of the ashram”. Lord Rama said, “This is such a strange request.” The dog said, “I was also the head of ashram in my past life. I thought it is better to be a dog than the head of an ashram. On my own Sankalpa, I became a dog. Let him go through that. Let him be made a head of an ashram.”
7) There are many who hear about spirituality, many who walk on the path. Still it is difficult to achieve. It is the same with basic course. You see that many people have heard, many teach also, “Accept people as they are; don’t be football of others people’s opinion; don’t see intention behind other’s mistake; live in the present moment.” It takes a whole lifetime to practice and to perfect this. Don’t think that just by doing basic course once, you have perfected the art. Don’t think that by teaching the course to many, you have perfected this art. Imbibing these five points in your life is a challenge for a lifetime.
8）死亡之王說：“願我們有更多像你這樣的求職者。”這不僅僅是一個有幸擁有一位優秀教師的學生。如果學生看到邏輯和獎學金以外的東西，老師也會感到高興和幸福。當你認為自己的邏輯非常強大時，你不會在另一邊看到光明。 “我是對的。我很好。“然後你讓別人成為罪魁禍首，這個世界就是罪魁禍首。9）Nachiketa然後說，“我知道地上的寶藏是短暫的。我永遠無法通過他們達到永恆。因此，我已經放棄了我對地上寶藏的所有慾望，以便通過你的指示贏得永恆“。他基本上說，“現在來到這一點。我讚美你，你讚美我。你只是在忙碌中挨打。“
10）閻王勳爵說：“智者通過冥想認識到永恆的自我。它隱藏在心靈洞穴中，遠遠落後於所有的感知，遠遠落後於痛苦和快樂。“
11）在Puranas，甚至上帝也顯得生氣和嫉妒。這甚至發生在devas之間。為什麼？只是為了表明你內心也有神性。不要為了傳遞情感而破壞這一點。你會想到一個理想的狀態在你的心中，沒有情緒應該到來。如果它來了，它是獨立的。不要對自己很難。要么你對某人很難，要么對自己很難。平衡就像走在剃刀邊緣。
12）Nachiketa接下來說的很漂亮。一個學生通常說，“教我什麼是正確的。”但是Nachiketa說，“教導我，你看到的是非正確和錯誤。”他超越了思想的有限邏輯。
13）那些冥想的人，對他們來說，不必擔心死亡。對於其他人來說，只有一種恐懼，就是死亡。所有的恐懼都與死亡有關。在賠錢的背後，害怕失去聲譽，害怕失去注意力，害怕失去地位 - 在這一切背後，只有一種恐懼就是死亡。冥想面臨著這種情況。當你在冥想中時，有靜止，沒有任何東西存在。這就是讓你遠離恐懼死亡的原因。
14）不知不覺中，我們每天都會遇到死亡。我記得當我和我的祖母在鄉村時，一旦你起床，他們就會在床上灑水，在那裡睡覺和拖把。睡眠就像迷你死亡。當你把屍體拿出來時，你要清潔並拖把那個地方。當孩子們從市區來到農村時，我們會想知道為什麼祖母會說這些東西。 “你不應該碰那個地方。你應該保持床鋪滾動。拖把地方，清除振動。“你不要在城市裡這樣做。在村莊里，前幾代人曾經這樣做過。你睡覺的地方有tamas。所以，你必須清理這個地方然後你可以使用它。我們從未被允許在床上吃食物。 “起床，刷牙，洗澡。再也不能在床上睡覺了。你必須整天保持活力。如果你躺在床上意味著再次不潔淨。去洗澡吧。“這對我來說似乎是完全迷信。作為孩子，我們會說這是迷信。你可以坐在墊子上，但不能坐在床上，因為那是你睡覺的地方，然後進入另一種意識狀態。在婆羅門的家庭中就是這樣。如果你碰到床，你必須洗澡。但它不再流行了。
8) The Lord of Death says, “May we have more seekers like you.” It’s not just a student who is blessed to have a great teacher. A teacher also feels happy and blessed to have a student who sees beyond logic and scholarship. When you think your logic is very strong, you don’t see light on the other side. “I am right. I am so good.” Then you make others culprit, the world as culprit.
9) Nachiketa then said, “I know that earthly treasures are transient. I can never reach the eternal through them. Hence I have renounced all my desires for earthly treasure to win the Eternal through your instructions”. He basically said, “Now come to the point. I praise you, you praise me. You are just beating around the busy.”
9) Nachiketa then said, “I know that earthly treasures are transient. I can never reach the eternal through them. Hence I have renounced all my desires for earthly treasure to win the Eternal through your instructions”. He basically said, “Now come to the point. I praise you, you praise me. You are just beating around the busy.”
10) Lord Yama said, “The wise realize the timeless Self, through meditation. It is beyond all perception, hidden in the cave of heart, leaving pain and pleasure far behind.”
11) In the Puranas, even Gods are shown getting angry and jealous. This is happening even among the devas. Why? Just to show that there is divinity inside you also. Do not undermine that for passing emotions. You think about an ideal state in your mind, where no emotions should come. If it comes, it comes on its own. Don’t be hard on yourself. Either you are hard on somebody or hard on yourself. Balancing is like walking on razor’s edge.
12) What Nachiketa said next is very beautiful. A student usually says, “Teach me what is right.” But Nachiketa said, “Teach me of that you see beyond right and wrong.” He has transcended the limited logic of the mind.
13) Those who meditate, for them there is no fear of death. For others there is only one fear, that of death. All fear is about death. Behind the losing money, fear of losing reputation, fear of losing attention, fear of losing status – behind all that, there is only one fear that is of death. Meditation is confronting that. When you are in meditation, there is stillness, nothing exists. This is what takes you away from fear of death.
14) Unconsciously, we encounter death every day. I remember when I was with my grandmother, in the village, as soon as you get up, they would role the bed and sprinkle water, where you slept and mop it. Sleep is like a mini death. When you take the dead body out, you clean and mop that place. As children coming from an urban area to a rural area, we would wonder why grandmother is saying all these things. “You should not touch that place. You should keep the bed rolled. Mop the place, clear the vibration.” You don’t do this in the cities. In villages, the earlier generations used to do this. The place where you have slept has tamas. So, you have to clean the place and then you can use it. We were never allowed to eat food on the bed. “Get up, brush your teeth and take bath. No more getting in the bed till night. You have to be dynamic the whole day. If you lie down on bed that means and you are impure again. Go and take bath.” It appeared to be utter superstition to me. As children, we would say this is superstition. You can sit on the mat but not on the bed because that is where you sleep and go to another state of consciousness. In Brahmin families it is like that. If you touch the bed, you have to take bath. But it is not prevalent anymore.
15) Why do people practice charity? Why do people practice self-restraint, why do people take monkhood, stay in monastery? Why do people become nuns and fathers or swamis? Why do they all do this? What is the purpose? They want to attain something higher but they get lost in their way. They simply become recluses, become monks, but they don’t get it. The purpose of them doing all this is to see that which is beyond death.
16) The lord of death told Nachiketa, “This is why they all are doing it and I am going to give it to you right away because you are a capable student. You didn’t become a monk but you are even more than a monk.” You don’t have to leave everything and run away from this world. You can be in the world, yet your mind can be completely unblemished by possessions. Don’t think those people who have renounced everything are greater than you. They might have greater craving than you. They are so hell bent on getting something which they don’t know. It is said that, when you finally meet God after all your struggle, then you say, “Oh! He was my neighbor, I knew him all the time.
17) Aum consolidates all that I am telling you. Death gives you sound Aum. It is called the sound of one hand clapping in the Buddhist tradition. Go deep in meditation, there is a sound that resonates in you –Aum. When you die the sound that remains with you is Aum. I said two things will stay with you – sound and sight. Sound is Aum, sight is light. So death is nothing but a light and a sound show. If sound and light are removed, then your subtle body dies and only the casual body remains. And the casual body is all bliss. It is the subtle body that makes you miserable. It is sound and light. How to cross over the sound and light? You can only cross over the sound by sound.
18) Yama said, “The sound which is required for this, which is eternal is that secret I am telling you.”
19) When Buddhists meditated, they found Aum. Jains meditated and they found Aum. Sikhs found Aum. Zoroastrians found Aum. Aum is very similar to Ameen. In the Jewish tradition, it is Shalom. Aum is there Shalom. Aum is the eternal sound, Aum is what one hears. So that which cannot be expressed by any name or form is represented by sound. That sound is Aum. Thought it is beyond sound, it can be identified with the sound Aum.
20) Once we brought two swamis (recluse monks) from India. We took them to Disneyland. I wanted them to experience the world, have some fun. The first ride was ‘splash mount’ roller coaster and that really scared them. They come out and said, “Guruji, all our Vedanta went back to India. We keep saying everything is maya but we were so scared” They accepted it with such innocence. It is easy to say everything is maya when we sit somewhere comfortably. But when we are failing from such height! “My heart was beating so fast. All the scriptures we studied ran away to Bangalore. We were left shaking.” And they were laughing. Body-mind complex can go through all these. They said, “Guruji, it is so scary.” When they saw the next ride, they went off in the other direction. “No no, no more rides, we just want to walk.” We had to convince them that ‘small world’ ride was good.
21) Guru and Self have same vibrations. You innermost and the teacher have the same frequency. That is why you feel comfortable with Guru, because you feel comfortable with your Self. Why do Guru give joy? You self is joy. When you are with the Guru, your mind opens, your ego opens; it can’t stand there fully, unless you try so hard to keep it. Joy wells up. A streak of light shines through, that’s all. That’s the mechanism that is the science behind it.
15）為什麼人們練習慈善事業？人們為什麼要實行自我克制，人們為什麼要僧侶，留在修道院？人們為什麼會成為修女和父親或者swamis？為什麼他們都這樣做？什麼目的？他們想要獲得更高的東西，但他們會迷失方向。他們只是成為隱士，成為僧侶，但他們沒有得到它。他們做這一切的目的是看到超越死亡的東西。
16）死亡之王告訴Nachiketa，“這就是為什麼他們都這樣做，我會馬上把它給你，因為你是一個有能力的學生。你沒有成為一名僧侶，但你甚至不僅僅是一名僧侶。“你不必離開這一切，遠離這個世界。你可以在世界上，但你的思想可以通過財產完全無瑕疵。不要以為放棄一切的人都比你大。他們可能比你有更大的渴望。他們如此傾向於得到一些他們不知道的東西。據說，當你在經歷了所有的掙扎之後終於遇見了上帝，那麼你說，“哦！他是我的鄰居，我一直都認識他。
17）Aum鞏固了我告訴你的一切。死亡給你聲音奧姆。它被稱為佛教傳統中單手拍手的聲音。深入冥想，有一種聲音在你身上產生共鳴--Aum。當你死的時候，剩下的聲音就是奧姆。我說有兩件事會和你在一起 - 聲音和視線。聲音是Aum，視線很輕。因此，死亡只不過是一種光明和聲音表演。如果聲音和光線被移除，那麼你的微妙的身體就會死亡，只留下隨意的身體。休閒的身體都很幸福。微妙的身體讓你痛苦不堪。這是聲音和光。如何越過聲光？你只能通過聲音越過聲音。
18）閻王說：“這是必需的聲音，這是永恆的，是我告訴你的秘密。”
19）當佛教徒冥想時，他們找到了奧姆。耆那教徒冥想，他們找到了奧姆。錫克教徒找到了奧姆。瑣羅亞斯德教徒找到了奧姆。 Aum與Ameen非常相似。在猶太人的傳統中，它是沙洛姆。奧姆是沙洛姆。 Aum是永恆的聲音，Aum是人們所聽到的。因此，任何名稱或形式都無法表達的是聲音。那聲音是奧姆。認為它超出聲音，它可以用聲音Aum識別。
20）一旦我們從印度帶來兩個swamis（隱士僧侶）。我們帶他們去了迪斯尼樂園。我希望他們體驗這個世界，享受一些樂趣。第一次騎行是'飛濺坐式'過山車，真的嚇到了他們。他們出來說，“古魯吉，我們所有的吠檀多都回到了印度。我們一直說一切都是瑪雅，但我們非常害怕“他們以這樣的清白接受了它。當我們舒適地坐在某處時，很容易說一切都是瑪雅。但是當我們從這樣的高度失敗的時候！ “我的心跳得如此之快。我們研究的所有經文都跑到了班加羅爾。我們被震動了。“他們在笑。身心複雜可以經歷所有這些。他們說，“古魯吉，它太嚇人了。”當他們看到下一次騎行時，他們走向了另一個方向。 “不，不，沒有更多的遊樂設施，我們只想走路。”我們不得不說服他們“小世界”的騎行是好的。
21）Guru和Self有相同的振動。你內心深處，老師的頻率相同。這就是為什麼你對Guru感到滿意，因為你覺得自己很舒服。為什麼古魯會給予快樂？你自己就是快樂。當你與大師在一起時，你的思想就會打開，你的自我就會打開;它不能完全站在那裡，除非你努力保持它。歡樂湧上來。一連串的光線透過，就是這樣。這就是它背後的科學機制。
禮貌 - 知識會議[H.H.Sri Sri Ravishankarji的話語]
16）死亡之王告訴Nachiketa，“這就是為什麼他們都這樣做，我會馬上把它給你，因為你是一個有能力的學生。你沒有成為一名僧侶，但你甚至不僅僅是一名僧侶。“你不必離開這一切，遠離這個世界。你可以在世界上，但你的思想可以通過財產完全無瑕疵。不要以為放棄一切的人都比你大。他們可能比你有更大的渴望。他們如此傾向於得到一些他們不知道的東西。據說，當你在經歷了所有的掙扎之後終於遇見了上帝，那麼你說，“哦！他是我的鄰居，我一直都認識他。
17）Aum鞏固了我告訴你的一切。死亡給你聲音奧姆。它被稱為佛教傳統中單手拍手的聲音。深入冥想，有一種聲音在你身上產生共鳴--Aum。當你死的時候，剩下的聲音就是奧姆。我說有兩件事會和你在一起 - 聲音和視線。聲音是Aum，視線很輕。因此，死亡只不過是一種光明和聲音表演。如果聲音和光線被移除，那麼你的微妙的身體就會死亡，只留下隨意的身體。休閒的身體都很幸福。微妙的身體讓你痛苦不堪。這是聲音和光。如何越過聲光？你只能通過聲音越過聲音。
18）閻王說：“這是必需的聲音，這是永恆的，是我告訴你的秘密。”
19）當佛教徒冥想時，他們找到了奧姆。耆那教徒冥想，他們找到了奧姆。錫克教徒找到了奧姆。瑣羅亞斯德教徒找到了奧姆。 Aum與Ameen非常相似。在猶太人的傳統中，它是沙洛姆。奧姆是沙洛姆。 Aum是永恆的聲音，Aum是人們所聽到的。因此，任何名稱或形式都無法表達的是聲音。那聲音是奧姆。認為它超出聲音，它可以用聲音Aum識別。
20）一旦我們從印度帶來兩個swamis（隱士僧侶）。我們帶他們去了迪斯尼樂園。我希望他們體驗這個世界，享受一些樂趣。第一次騎行是'飛濺坐式'過山車，真的嚇到了他們。他們出來說，“古魯吉，我們所有的吠檀多都回到了印度。我們一直說一切都是瑪雅，但我們非常害怕“他們以這樣的清白接受了它。當我們舒適地坐在某處時，很容易說一切都是瑪雅。但是當我們從這樣的高度失敗的時候！ “我的心跳得如此之快。我們研究的所有經文都跑到了班加羅爾。我們被震動了。“他們在笑。身心複雜可以經歷所有這些。他們說，“古魯吉，它太嚇人了。”當他們看到下一次騎行時，他們走向了另一個方向。 “不，不，沒有更多的遊樂設施，我們只想走路。”我們不得不說服他們“小世界”的騎行是好的。
21）Guru和Self有相同的振動。你內心深處，老師的頻率相同。這就是為什麼你對Guru感到滿意，因為你覺得自己很舒服。為什麼古魯會給予快樂？你自己就是快樂。當你與大師在一起時，你的思想就會打開，你的自我就會打開;它不能完全站在那裡，除非你努力保持它。歡樂湧上來。一連串的光線透過，就是這樣。這就是它背後的科學機制。
禮貌 - 知識會議[H.H.Sri Sri Ravishankarji的話語]
- 第4天 - “超越存在的層次”。
1）頭腦，意識比身體強大得多。它是意識的存在，使身體在子宮內生長，使其運動和運作。意識從身體上抬起的那一刻，身體已經死了;這是一具屍體。身體或意識哪個強大？但是世界的想法是什麼？無知的人認為身體比意識更強大。可見性比無形更強大 - 這是無知的思維。知識淵博的人知道意識比身體更強大。
2）自我在形式中是無形的。所有這些形式 - 一個是大喊大叫，一個是大喊大叫，一個是平靜的，一個在哭，一個是在笑;所有這些形式表現各種各樣的方式都只是一種形式，即我的自我。
3）無知是無法看到變化的世界中的變化，也無法看到自我中的不變。有些事情沒有改變。即使你還沒掌握它，我仍然告訴你，每個人都能看到這種經歷 - “我身上的某些東西沒有改變，或者我沒有改變。”我們高興地承認。我們不高興地承認，“哦，沒有什麼是改變我。我絕望了。“不要哀嘆”我的一切都沒有變化，我從今天開始就表現得一樣。為什麼你會受到傷害並在這個問題上責怪自己？而不是悲傷地說“我的一切都沒有改變”你的注意力在變化上，把你的注意力放在不變的上，並愉快地說“我的一切都沒有改變。”扭曲“我不改變” - “我不變”。
4）勇敢的人不必具有侵略性，他知道這很簡單，可以處理任何事情。他永遠不會失去平靜，從不匆忙行事。對他而言，就像舉起一根手指一樣。所有的武術都是基於這個原則發展起來的 - 耐心。有人即將加入，而武術家只是專注。他耐心地握著一隻手。他沒有顫抖，顫抖，咄咄逼人，大喊大叫，蹦蹦跳跳。他耐心地等待對手攻擊然後他進行防守。在辯護中，他只做了一件事而另一個人分崩離析。武術法則是攻擊者是弱者。來攻擊的人，攻擊性較弱的人。抵抗攻擊的是強者。防守是最好的進攻。
5）我們的Rishis帶來知識的方式，一步一步是如此驚人。如果你說，在一開始它，上帝是不可知的，那麼它就結束了。你為什麼想學習？它變成徒勞的運動。你無法知道這個宇宙有多深。這是不可知的，不可想像的。那麼為什麼有人會用哈勃望遠鏡去找那裡有多少顆恆星呢？只是說有這麼多的宇宙，它們正在不斷擴展;你永遠不會知道這一切。忘掉它。他們將不得不關閉美國宇航局。有什麼意義？它是不可知的，無法到達。不，他們一步一步帶你。你想了解婆羅門，捕捉婆羅門。即使是最輕微的任務也可能會依附於你的思想並試圖抓住某些東西。他們說，“不，它不能被抓住。”你無法宣稱，“我知道。”
6）內心的旅程非常精緻，需要一些技巧。這是一堆對立面。一方面，他們說如果你不了解真相就沒有生活點。另一方面，他們說你無法知道這個事實。這是如此矛盾。
7）除了智力之外，還有自我。更加重視自我。這些是您經歷的層次。從感覺對像到感官;從感覺到心靈，通過感官體驗;從頭腦到智力，判斷，歧視，決定，說出這個或那個。從智力到超越它的智力。只有當你有科學的脾氣時才能實現自我。一個人的頭腦是平等的，安息的，一個人是純潔的，他就是這樣。知道是不同的，獲得是非常不同的。他獲得了這一點，他不必重生。
8）超越智力是自我。自我源於無差別的意識。意識來自婆羅門。婆羅門是第一個原因，也是最後的避難所。超越自我是“mahat tattva”。取一縷頭髮，垂直切割100次。取其中一條並再次切割100次。取一條鏈的第100個部分的第100個部分並將其切割10次，該一條鏈的尖端是原子的大小。自我比原子微100倍。他們描述了自我的維度！比那個自我更好的100倍是“mahat tattva”，這個原則叫做“mahat”。聖雄一詞是一個標題，意思是超越自我的人。所有的聖徒都被稱為聖雄。在梵語中，聖雄意味著與“mahat tattva”成為一體的人。很多次，1000次或更多，是婆羅門，神性。
1) The mind, consciousness is much more powerful than the body. It's the existence of consciousness that makes the body grow in the womb, makes it move and function. The moment that consciousness gets lifted from the body the body is dead; it is a corpse. So which is powerful the body or consciousness? But what does the world think? Ignorant people think that the body is more powerful than consciousness. The visible is more powerful than the invisible – this is the ignorant thinking. The knowledgeable know that the consciousness is more powerful than the body.
2) The Self is Formless in the midst of forms. All these forms - one is yelling, one is shouting, one is calm, one is crying, one is laughing; ail these forms behaving in various ways are all just permeated by one form that is my Self.
3) Ignorance is the inability to see the changes in the changing world and inability to see the Non-changing in your Self. There is something that is not changing. Even if you have not grasped it yet, still I tell you, everybody has had a glimpse of that experience - that “something in me has not changed or I have not changed." Acknowledge happily. We acknowledge unhappily, "Oh, nothing is changing in me. I am hopeless." Stop lamenting that "nothing is changing in me, I behave the same" right from today. Why do you be hurt and blame yourself on that issue? Instead of miserably saying "nothing is changing in me" with your attention on the change, put your attention on the Non-changing and happily say "nothing is changing in me." Twist "I am not changing" - to "I am non-changing."
4) A brave one doesn't have to be aggressive, he knows it is very simple and can handle anything. He will never lose his calm, never act in a hurry. For him it’s like lifting a finger. All the martial arts are developed on this principle – patience. Someone is coming to attach and the martial artist is just focused. He is patient holding the hand in a particular way. He is not shaking, shivering, going aggressively, yelling and pouncing on them. He patiently waits for opponent to attack then he defends. And in the defense he does just one thing and the other person falls apart. The law of martial arts is that the attacker is the weaker one. The one who comes to attack, the aggressive one is weaker. One who resists the attack is the strong one. Defense is the best offence.
5) The way our Rishis has brought the knowledge, step by step is so amazing. If you say, in the very beginning it, that God is unknowable, then it is finished. Why would you want to study? It becomes a futile exercise. You can't know how deep this universe is. It is unknowable, unthinkable. Then why would anybody go with a Hubble telescope and find out how many stars are there. Just say there are so many universes, which are ever expanding; and you can never know it all. Forget about it. They will have to close NASA. What is the point? It is unknowable, unreachable. No. They take you step by step. You want to know the Brahman, capture the Brahman. Even that slightest doership might cling on to your mind and try to grasp something. They say, "No, it can't be grasped." You can't claim, 'I know it."
6) The inner journey is so delicate that it needs some skill. It is a bundle of opposites. On one hand they say there is no point in living if you don't know the truth. On the other hand they say you can't know this truth. It is so contradictory.
7) Beyond the intellect is the Self. Give more importance to the Self. These are the layers that you go through. From the sense objects to the senses; from sense to mind, which experiences through the senses; from the mind to the intellect, which judges, discriminates, decides, says this or that. And from intellect, to that which is beyond it. The Self this can be attained only when you have a scientific temper. One whose mind is even, reposed, one who is pure, he attains this. Knowing is different and attaining is something very different. He attains this and he doesn't have to be born again.
8) Beyond the intellect is ego. Ego arises from Undifferentiated Consciousness. Consciousness arises from Brahman. Brahman is the first cause and the last refuge. Beyond the ego is “mahat tattva”. Take a strand of hair and cut it vertically 100 times. Take one of these strands and again cut it 100 times. Take that 100th fraction of the 100th fraction of a strand and cut it 10 times, the tip of that one strand is the size of an atom. Ego is a 100 times finer than the atom. They have described the dimension of the ego! 100 times finer than that ego is “mahat tattva”, the principle called “mahat”. The word Mahatma is a title, which means the one who has transcended the ego. All saints are called mahatmas. In Sanskrit, mahatma means one who has become one with the “mahat tattva”. Many times finer, 1000 times or more, is the Brahman, the Divinity.
問題：當你死的時候，你會認出你的朋友和所有人嗎？斯里蘭卡：是的，當你死的時候，你遇到的第一個人就是你的上師。然後你會遇到你的母親，祖先，父親和祖父母。他們都動搖你的手，歡迎你。
問題：為什麼神聖分裂成這麼多形式，製作所有這些戲劇，有一天會回到原來的形式？
斯里蘭卡：憑藉自己的優雅確實如此。它祝福“好吧，你喘著粗氣。你的腿累了，手臂累了。你已經足夠游泳了。你的皮膚會變得潮濕。”當你在水中太久時，你的皮膚不會濕透嗎？然後你說，“足夠了”，拿一條毛巾擦拭自己，同樣的方式。
問題：有什麼痛苦？
斯里蘭卡：如果你知道疼痛只是暫時的，那就是來來去去，你不要在意疼痛。你去看醫生他會給你一個刺。你不介意痛苦。你正在用啞鈴鍛煉，這很痛苦。你喜歡那種痛苦。為什麼你不喜歡痛苦，因為在痛苦中你會感到'哦！這就是死亡'你將死亡與痛苦聯繫起來。這就是為什麼有恐懼。只是簡單的痛苦不會給你帶來痛苦。你願意經歷許多痛苦。
- 禮貌 - 知識會議[H.H.Sri Sri Ravishankarji的話語]
Question: When you die will you recognize your friends and everybody?
Sri Sri: Yes, when you die, the first person you meet is your Guru. Then you meet your mother, ancestors, father, and grandparents. They all shake your hands and welcome you.
Question: Why does the Divine split itself into so many forms, make all this drama, and one day go back to its original form?
Sri Sri: It does, by its own grace. It blesses "ok, you are gasping for breath. Your legs are tired, arms are tired. You have swum enough. Your skin is getting soggy." Doesn't your skin get soggy when you are in the water too long? Then you say, "Enough is enough", take a towel and wipe yourself, in the same way.
Question: What is suffering?
Sri Sri: If you know pain is just momentary it just comes and goes, you don't mind the pain. You go to a doctor and he gives you a Prick. You don't mind the pain. You are doing exercise with dumbbells and it pains. You enjoy that pain. Why you don’t like suffering, because in suffering you feel, 'Oh! This is death’ you associate death with suffering. That is why there is fear. Just simple pain doesn't give you suffering. You willingly undergo many pains.
