与印度同事-论道，求荐瑜珈，唐僧错过的高僧Swami Vivekananda

 

 

与印度同事闲聊了几句关于努力工作的事情，老印同事说有位印度大师说过 - “世界上没有任何事情，可以代替努力工作。”

 

听了之后，觉得很有一种印度鸡汤的感觉，细想一下觉得这个大师讲得还似乎有些哲理。问问同事你把这个高僧的名字拼写出来，自然是第一次听说，而且查不到中文翻译。关于上面的那句转述，我只查到了一句类似的话 -  “This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.” 其实其他的名人也有类似的说法。

 

选读了几十条这个印度高僧的名言，哇，果然外来的和尚会念经，许多讲的很有意思的话，闻所未闻。

 

Arise, awake and donot stop until the goal is reached.

晨起，警醒，不懈努力，直到达到目的。

 

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

只有相信自己，才能相信神祉。

 

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

一个人必须从自身成长。外人不可能教你学会，不可能付于你灵性。你的灵魂是你唯一的老师。

 

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

我们是自己思想的产物，三思而行，不修华辞。思想会永存，会传播甚远。

 

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

不要遣责： 如果你可以伸手助人，那就尽力。如果你无力相助，收起手来为他们祝福，让他们走自己的路。

 

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

世界像是一个大型体育馆，我们在这里让自己变得强壮。

 

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

不以物喜，会让一个人走向不朽。

 

“If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.”

如果你想要真正的生活，你每时每刻都要冒着死的精神去努力。生命与死亡是同一事物从不同立足点的不同表述而已，它们像是涌起和落下的波浪，是一体二面。

 

“In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.”

假如有一天，你没有遇到烦心之事，你一定是行走在错误的路上。

 

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

选定一个理念，让那个念头贯彻你的一切生活，醒着时思考它，睡觉中梦见它，贯穿在生活中。让大脑，肌肉，神经，身体的每一部分都充满了这个理念，放弃一切杂念。这是唯一的成功之路。

 

“Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.”

要敢于解放自己，敢于让自己的思想引领到远方，敢于把思想付诸行动。

 

施咓密 - Swami Vivekananda （01/12/1863 – 07/04/1902），是一位印度教的近代高僧，宗教家和哲学家，他提倡各种宗教的包容。在论及不同类别的宗教时，这个高僧说 - 我就像一个坐在印度教水井的井底之蛙，与那些信奉其它宗教的人类似。

 

施咓密在一百多年前出席了在芝加哥的世界宗教大会，在简短的演讲中以 - “美州的兄弟和姐妹们”致词，引发全场与会代表的经久掌声，从此被知名和介绍到西方和欧洲，在美国出版印度教和大王瑜伽的著书，成为一代宗师。这派瑜伽- Raja Yoga，也是印度同事极力推荐的一种。

 

这位高僧，生命短暂，影响长久。为了记念高僧和鼓励后人，印度的青年节选在施咓密的生日那一天，印度印发过高僧头像的邮票。