《施化難陀大師醒世之言》(Thus awaken Swami Sivananda)
唯一的真理
這裏只有一個種族，那就是人類。
這裏只有一個宗教，那就是愛的宗教。
這裏只有一條誡命，那就是誠信的誡命。
這裏只有一條律則，那就是因果的律則。
這裏只有一位神明，那就是無處不在、無所不能、無所不知的主。
這裏只有一種語言，那就是心靈的語言或默然的語言。
One Truth
There is only one Caste, The Caste of HUMANITY.
There is only one Religion, The Religion of LOVE.
There is only one Commandment, The Commandment of TRUTHFULNESS.
There is only one Law, The Law of CAUSE and EFFECT.
There is only one God, The Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient Lord. There is only one Language, The Language of HEART or the Language of SILENCE.
施化難陀箴言
1.生命是為了得到神。
2.侍奉人群就是崇敬神。
3.神是平安，神是至樂，神是光明。
4.工作就是崇敬。把你的工作奉獻給神。
5.駕馭感官，駕馭內心。活出真誠，活出純潔。
6.侍奉病人，侍奉窮苦，侍奉一切眾生。
7.永遠不要傷害他人的感受。忍受侮辱與傷害。寬恕，仁慈。
8.你本來就是不朽自由的靈魂、自性。
Aphorisms Of Sivananda
1. Life is meant to attain God.
2. Service of man is worship of God.
3. God is peace. God is Bliss. God is Light.
4. Work is worship. Dedicate your actions to God.
5. Control senses. Control mind. Be truthful. Be pure.
6. Serve the sick. Serve the poor. Serve all Beings.
7. Never hurt other's feelings. Bear insult and injury. Forgive. Be kind.
8. Thou art Ever Free Immortal Soul or Atman.
NOTE:
1.載自http://www.blancoage.com/boardtest/afall_nofso003/showtopic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34794&Forum_ID=59
2.在Yoga Journal專業瑜珈雜誌所編寫的書-Yoga (Paperback) by Linda Sparrowe, Yoga Journal,談及瑜珈的歷史將Swami Sivananda施化難陀大師當第一人介紹,由此可見其在瑜珈的地位
3.Swami Sivananda施化難陀大師的簡史:
- 出生於1887 年南印度,1963年示寂
- 醫學博士,行醫於馬來西亞
- 1924年決心修練瑜珈於喜馬拉雅山腳的Rishikesh 修行
- 1936年創立於印度、如今分部遍置全球的神聖人生會社（The Divine Life Society）宏揚瑜伽，把健康與和平帶給世人
- 1959 年建立了第一Sivananda 瑜伽Vedanta 中心在蒙特利爾, 加拿大
- 現在全世界有近 80 個Sivananda 地點 (聚會所、瑜伽中心, 和附屬的中心) 。詳http://www.sivananda.org/
- 倡導的服務、愛心、奉獻、淨化、冥想、 實現（Serve、Love,Purify.Meditate,Realize）的六字箴言
永恆的氣息
1. 奧義書就是永恆的氣息。
2. 永恆的呼聲是發自你的內心。醒過來吧！你其實是永恆不朽，完全極樂的靈魂。Tat Twam Asi,你本來就是這個真理。
3. 醒吧！起來吧！人啊！你是真理路上的朝聖者。你是神聖的，尋找那返回永恆極樂家鄉的路吧。
4. 牢牢地握著那歷久不衰的道理。
5. 不要從外間尋找光明、平安、喜悅與極樂，往內在尋找吧。
6. 真理必須在你的靈魂深處發現。
7. 沒有靈性意識，你的生命還不算完美。
8. 沒有正義、捨棄、冥想與自性開悟，你的生命還是枯竭的。
9. 無欲的人才會達到永恆不朽的境界。
10. 擁有神就擁有全世界。
11. 沒有神我(Atman)或自性，那就沒有生命。
12. 來吧，不要再擔擱，不要再遲疑。開步、進步、邁向神那裏。你的目標就是悟證早已忘掉了的、「與神為一」的實相。
13. 靈性生活的基礎是駕馭自我，永遠過一個正義的、合乎正法(Dharma)的生命。
The Breath Of The Eternal
1. The Upanishads are the breath of the Eternal.
2. The Eternal Voice speaks within the core of your heart. Wake up! Thou art the Immortal, all-blissful Spirit. at Twam Asi?
3. Awake! Arise! O Man! You are a pilgrim on the path of Truth. You are Divine. Find the way back to your spiritual abode of eternal bliss.
4. Hold fast to that which ever endures.
5. Look not outside for light, peace, joy and bliss but look within.
6. Truth must be discovered in the depth of your own being.
7. Your life is incomplete without spiritual Consciousness.
8. Your life is barren without righteousness, renunciation, meditation and self-realisation.
9. A desireless man becomes immortal.
10. To have God is to have the entire world.
11. Without Atman or the Self there is no life.
12. Come then. Tarry not. Falter not. March onward, forward, and Godward. Your goal is to realise the forgotten oneness with God.
13. The foundation of spiritual life is self-control. Ever lead a life of righteousness or Dharma
真正的宗教
1. 真正的宗教是活出來的，不是說出來或是造作出來的。
2. 真正的宗教是對人那分內在神性的知覺。
3. 真正的宗教是內心的宗教，所以內心先要潔淨。
4. 真誠、仁愛與純潔是宗教的基礎。
5. 內心的純潔讓自性得以悟證。
6. 正義是人最佳的得著，這也就是他的幸福。
7. 只有愛才會勝利，仇恨只會毀滅。
8. 布施。學習布施，豐厚地布施，懷著愛去布施。施恩莫望報。
9. 生命就是創造，創造就是生命。
10. 自私與靈性永遠不可並存。
11.改革不是外在的改變，人們只是通過外在靈性的改變而帶來內在的改變。
12.沒有靈性上外在的改革，社會與政治上的改革也只是一種嘲諷。
13.解脫是永恆的生命，原全從私心、執著、恐懼、情欲、生與死中擺脫出來。
14.不要疑慮，不要延誤。OM 在我內，那是心靈的喜樂與歡愉。
15. 循序漸進地冥想，能為你代來永恆光明與直覺。
16. 人的內心得到冥想的光照，認證了大梵，那永恆者。達到這境界，我的朋友，你也達到了生命唯一的目標。
Real Religion
1. Real religion is living, not speaking or showing
2. Real religion is the awareness of the essential Divinity of Man.
3. Real religion is the religion of the heart. The heart must be purified first.
4. Truth, love and purity are the basis of real religion.
5. By the pure in heart is this Atman known.
6. Righteousness is man's best acquisition. It is his happiness.
7. Love alone will triumph, because hate destroys.
8. Give. Learn to give. Give in plenty. Give with love. Give without expectation of fruits.
9. To live is to create and to create is living.
10. Selfishness and spirituality can never live together.
11. Reform is not external change. It is the internal change in man which only comes through developing spiritual outlook.
12. If there is no spiritual outlook, social and political reforms are mere mockery.
13. Moksha is the life in the eternal. It is freedom from egoism, attachment, fear, lust, birth and death.
14. Doubt not. Doubts delay. Om is unto me, the joy and the rejoicing of my heart. 15. Meditation gradually offers you the eternal light and intuition.
16. With the mind illumined by the power of meditation know Brahman, the Immortal, attain HIM, O My Friend, the one Goal to be attained.
融入於永恆不滅者
1.那永恆不滅者就是實相或大梵。
2.與永恆不滅者合而為一就是智慧。
3.大梵能見一切，能知一切。祂就是智慧本身。
4.明瞭心中蓮花隱藏著的大梵就是解開了愚昧的死結。
5.神或大梵就是你的最親最近者。
生命的意義
6.生命是神所賜予的最大禮物。
7.生命就是侍奉，生命就是盡責。8.時間就是生命。
9.生命在希望的翅膀上翱翔。
10.惡行就像癌腫般侵蝕生命活力。
智慧的翅膀
11.正義是生命的規尺。
12.正義本身就是回報。
13.正義是最大的財富。
14.謙虛讓人的偉大散發光茫。
15.忠誠的道路坦平正直。
16.真誠是眾德之首。
17.滿足於你的所有，但不滿足於你的為人。
18.禱告是拍動著信與愛的翅膀，讓靈魂往上超升。
19.信心不問因由，憑著信無畏地踏進神聖的領域。
20.把人與神分隔的，就是內心。
Unto The Imperishable
1. The Imperishable is the Real or Brahman.
2. To become one with Brahman is Wisdom.
3. Brahman sees all, knows all. He is wisdom Itself.
4. To know Brahman hidden in the lotus of the heart is to untie the knot of ignorance.
5. God or Brahman is your dearest and nearest.
The Meaning of Life
6. Life is the greatest gift of God.
7. Life is service; Life is duty.
8. Time is life.
9. Life moves on the happy wings of hope.
10. Vice is a canker that eats into the vitals of life. The Wings of Wisdom
11. Righteousness is the rule of life.
12. Righteousness is its own reward.
13. Righteousness is the highest of riches.
14. Humility sheds effulgence on the greatness of man.
15. The path of honesty is straight and smooth.
16. Truth is the supermost virtue.
17. Be contented with what you have but be discontented with what you are.
18. Prayer is the heavenward soaring of the soul on the wings of faith and devotion.
19. Faith reasons not, but believes and enters the Divine realm fearlessly.
20. That which separates man from God is mind.
啟示出極樂的光明
1.在任何時間都永遠不變的是內在的知覺意識。
2.意識是無限的，而且超越時間永遠不朽。這才可稱為真理。
3.認識這個本我就是自由。
4.通過大梵的知識，得到力量、戰勝死亡、永恆不朽與永遠的極樂。
5.真實地說，世上根本沒有無神論者。每個人都尋找幸福，每個人都渴望找到幸福。幸福就是神。
6.這個世界不是混亂的，而是有組織、神聖的組織。
7.真正生命的知識就是哲學。
8.戰勝自己的內心或低下的習氣就是最大的培育與文明。
9.物質不應管轄生命，反應受到生命的管轄。
10.你用自己的思想塑造了自己的生命與世界。
11.這個身體是客觀化的思想，客觀化的意志。
12.世上沒有一件事是不可以正確努力而達成的。
13.和平先從家庭開始，讓人的心中都充滿和平，才進而談論世界和平。
14.統一先從家庭開始，才進而談論世界統一。
15.行為是人們意識的推衍。
16.上師通過教導、以身作則、思想、接觸與慈愛的目光去影響學生。
Light That Reveals Bliss
1. What never changes at any time is the Knowing-Consciousness within.
2. Consciousness is Infinite, and being above time is Immortal. This alone can be the truth.
3. To know the Self or Atman is to be free.
4. Through Knowledge of Brahman comes power, victory over death, immortality and everlasting bliss.
5. In truth, there is no atheist in this world. Everybody wants happiness. Everyone tries to get happiness. Happiness is God.
6. This world is not chaos. It is an organised, divine institution.
7. A knowledge of the true life is philosophy.
8. To have triumph over the mind and lower nature is the greatest culture or civilisation.
9. Matter should not rule life, but life should rule matter.
10. You make your life, your world, by your own thought.
11. The body is objectified thought. It is objectified Will.
12. There is nothing in this world which one may not attain by right exertion.
13. Peace should be found at home first, and in the heart of man, and then let him talk of world peace.
14. Unity should be found at home first and then let them talk of world unity.
15. Behaviour is a basis for inferring about the inner consciousness of man.
16. A Guru exerts his influence on his student by his teachings, example, thought, touch and graceful look.
愛的瑜伽
.仁愛與真誠是所有聖人與宗教的基石。
2.愛是靈魂的生命。
3.能夠與人同樂，與人同悲的，才是真正的瑜伽士。
4.真理的追尋者必須擁有信心、盼望、勇氣、離欲、自制、熱切渴求等素質。
5.不要做一些令自己心靈感到羞愧的事情。
6.那些問心無愧的、能合乎良知的行為，就是正義的。
7.捨棄的意思是捨棄你的自我、自私與欲望，而不是捨棄生活而不顧。
8.永恆不朽是與神或大梵合而為一。
9.智慧的終結就是悟證了自我與至高者或大梵的本性齊一。
10.大梵或永恆者就是這段旅程的終站。祂就是最高的目標。
The Yoga Of Love
1. Love and truth are the corner-stones of the teachings of saints and of every religion.
2. Love is indeed the life of the soul.
3. He who feels as his own, the joys and sorrows of others is a true Yogi.
4. A seeker of Truth must possess faith, hope, courage, dispassion and self-restraint and burning aspiration.
5. Do not perform any action which your own heart feels shame to do.
6. What your heart feels no shame to do, what satisfies your conscience, is indeed righteous action.
7. Renunciation is renunciation of the ego, of selfishness and desires; but not of life.
8. Immortality is union with God or Brahman.
9. The end of wisdom is to realise the identity of the individual soul and the Supreme Soul or Brahman.
10. Brahman or the Eternal is the end of the Journey. He is the Supreme Goal.
智慧的閃光
1.以神的名號來清洗內心，把仇恨、憤怒與嫉妒等污染潔淨。
2.神是靈、是愛，祂是一切萬有的根源。
3.神是一切不幸與苦惱的清除者。
4.你所見的都是神、所聽到的都是神。
5.神住於一葉、一草與一滴露水之中。
6.神見到每一顆心內的經歷。
7.神只會向謙虛、簡樸與純潔的人顯示。
8.在心中培植和平的花園，清除情欲、仇恨、貪婪與自私的雜草。
9.認真跟隨上師與經書的每一點教導。
10.不要為權益而鬥爭，多點考慮你的義務。
11.憂慮為身心帶來極大的傷害。
12.完全放開自我，接受神的意旨。
13.放開所有的恐懼、擔心、憂仇與焦慮。
14.祈求神的幫助與帶引，渴求祂的恩典。
Wisdom Sparks
1. Wash the mind with the water of Lord's Name and clean it of the dirt of hatred, anger and jealousy.
2. God is spirit. God is love. He is the very source of all.
3. God is the remover of all misery and sorrow.
4. Whatever you see is God. Whatever you hear is God.
5. The Lord dwells even in a single leaf, or in a blade of grass or in a drop of water.
6. God sees all that passes in every heart.
7. God reveals Himself to those who are humble, simple and pure.
. Cultivate peace in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed and selfishness.
9. Follow the instructions of your master and the teachings of the scriptures to the very letter.
10. Do not fight for rights. Think more of your duty and less about your rights.
. Worry does great harm to the body and the mind.
12. Resign yourself completely to the will of God.
13. Give up all sorts of fear, cares, worries and anxieties.
14. Pray to the Almighty for help and guidance. Thirst for His grace.
片言
1.想些好的，說些好的，做些好的。你很快就可進入永恆極樂的國度。
2.不要浪費這個人生，不要呆站在岸邊，看那世俗的浪最終還是平伏到靈性極樂之中。
3.成功的公式就是D + E + F。D是指分辨(Discrimation)，E是指努力(Excertion)，F是指信心(Faith)。
4.一位沒有貞節的婦女就像無輪之車、無弦之琴。
5.只有人類變得道德與靈性，世界將會存在。
6.沒有情欲、自我、貪婪、奮怒與傲慢的生命，本身就是聖潔生命。
7.要悟證神，唱頌就是最容易、最便宜、最快捷、最安全的道路。
8.不要埋怨沒有時間修行。減少睡眠與長篇大論的說話，早上4時便起床。
9.沒有上師的恩典，便沒有可能在靈性道路上進步。
10.上師就是聖地。創造主(Brahma)、維持主(Vishnu)、毀滅主(Siva)、大地女神(Parvathi)、釋帝天(Indra)、所有的神明、所有的聖河，都在他之內。
11.一切你的財富都屬於神所有。除了你需要以外，沒有必要保存更多。
12.在你之內是隱藏著的神。在你之內是喜悅的泉源。在你之內是極樂的大洋。
Sayings
Think what is good, speak what is good, do what is good.
You will soon enter the kingdom of Immortal Bliss.
not waste this Human life, stand not ashore watching the waves of worldliness to subside for a bath of spiritual bliss.
The formula for success is D plus E plus F. D is discrimination, E is exertion and F is faith.
A woman without chastity is like a chariot without wheels or a Veena without strings.
The world will exist only if people become moral and spiritual.
Life without lust, egoism, greed, anger and pride is itself divine life.
Kirtan is the easiest, cheapest, quickest, surest, safest way to attain God-realisation.
Do not complain that there is no time for Sadhana.
Reduce sleep and tall talk. Get up at 4 a.m.
No progress in the spiritual path is possible without the grace of the Guru.
Guru is the place of pilgrimage. Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, Parvathi, Indra, all Devas and sacred rivers are in Him.
Your money belongs to the Lord.
You have no business to keep more than what you need.
Within you is hidden God.
Within you is the fountain of joy.
Within you is the ocean of bliss.
靈性的經驗
1.進入深度的冥想生命全賴神的恩典。
2.深度的冥想須有很大的謙卑、平靜與勇氣。
3.在深度的冥想生命中，感官與內心都已經加以降伏。內心、情緒與想像都不再有用。
4.在深度的冥想中，瑜伽士完全把自己收攝，進入一個超越內心與理智的意識狀態。他只知覺到純粹的存在。
5.在三摩地或超意識的狀態中，瑜伽士放棄了自我的感覺，進入了神的本性之中。
6.靈性經驗只會在你預備好之後才出現，不會過早。
7.在靈性經驗中，一層又一層的經驗不斷顯現。你必須有耐性地等候。以純潔與勇氣在修行中努力耕耘。
8.靈性旅途也會物以類聚，你永遠不會孤單。你會在內在得到世上的瑜伽士們與聖人門祝福。他們的靈性波流將會使你得到提升與鼓勵。
9.冥想並且進入那光明的領域。那裏再沒有局限，這裏沒有憂慮，沒有障礙。
10.那裏沒有時空。在那聖潔的領域沒有恐懼，沒有疑惑，沒有躊躇。那只有永恆的喜樂、極樂、平安、幸福
Spiritual Experiences
The entrance into the higher meditative life depends upon the grace of God.
The higher meditative life demands tremendous humility, serenity and courage.
In higher meditative life the senses and the mind are completely subdued.
There is no more use of the mind, emotions and imaginations.
In higher meditation the Yogi withdraws himself completely and enters into the state of consciousness above the mind and intellect.
He is conscious only of Pure Being.
In Samadhi or the superconscious state the Yogi abandons the sense of his own being and enters into the Being of God.
Spiritual experience will come to you when you are ready, but not before.
There is inner unfolding from level to level in your spiritual experience.
Wait patiently. Plod on in your Sadhana with purity and courage.
Like draws like on your spiritual journey.
You are never really left alone.
You will get help from Yogis and Saints internally, from different parts of the world.
Their spiritual vibrations will elevate and inspire you.
Meditate and enter into the realm of radiant light. There are no limitations; here there is no worry, there are no obstacles.
There is no time or space.
In that holy realm there is no fear, no doubt, no indecision.
It is all eternal joy, bliss, peace and happiness.
道德
道德是宗教的門檻。
德是極樂的入門。
道德的目的是藉改變自己的氣質，以提升聖潔的素質。
向善，為善。這就是道德的要義。
不道德喝酒就是不道德。
傷害他人就是不道德。
縱容憤怒就是不道德。
撒謊騙人就是不道德。
沉醉於情欲的思想就是不道德。
憎恨與針對別人就是不道德。
大發雷霆就是不道德。
Morality
Morality is the gateway to religion.
Morality is the gateway to bliss immortal.
The aim of morality is to raise man to the level of divinity by transforming his own nature.
Be good; do good.
This is the essence of morality.
Immorality It is immoral to drink liquor.
It is immoral to hurt others.
It is immoral to give way to anger.
It is immoral to tell lies or deceive others.
It is immoral to entertain lustful thoughts.
It is immoral to hate or cavil others.
It is immoral to burst out in anger.
美德
美德是幸福的根源，因此，你要充滿美德。
美德為你打開永恆的大門，並且迎接你進內。
美德的背後就是聖潔，凡有聖潔，必有美德。
美德不是從金錢而來，人的善行都從美德而來。
Virtue
Virtue is the root of happiness; therefore be virtuous.
Virtue will open the gates of immortality to receive you.
Virtue has divinity behind it; wherever is divinity there is virtue.
Virtue does not come from money; but every good of man comes from virtue.
施化(Siva)的呼喚
真誠地思想，真誠地說話，真誠地生活，真誠地做事。
活出純潔，活出靈性，就是活出真誠。
真誠是建立神殿的第一根支柱。
踐真誠會續漸改變你的生命。
真誠是永恆與神性福樂的賜予者。
真誠是指按事實來開始，按事實來表達。
真誠是修習一切美德的指標。
如果你希望達到快速的靈性進步，如果你希望成就神的悟證，那就請無私心地緊守真誠。
真誠是神的律則的核心，也是一切靈修與聖潔生命的基礎。
Voice Of Siva
Think truly. Speak truly. Live truly. Act truly.
To be pure, to be spiritual, is to be true.
Truthfulness is the first pillar in the temple of the Lord.
Practice of truth will gradually transform your life.
Truth is the bestower of immortality and bliss divine.
Being truthful means stating a thing as it is or expressing a thing as it is.
Truth denotes the practising of all the divine virtues.
If you want quick progress in the spiritual life, if you are to attain God realisation, then adhere to truth without any selfish consideration.
Truth is the very core and essence of the law of God, which is the foundation of all spiritual practices and divine life.
我的使命
我組織醫藥的服務，是為了宏揚四海一家與和平的精神。
我組織道德的教化，是為了直接宏揚萬民平等與人類團結的福音，並以此締造世界和平。
通過正法或正義，使真理在一切文化中彰顯。
我不相信通過強暴與武力的軍事活動能夠征服他人。
我只相信道德、心靈、愛心能征服一切，從而建立起正義的靈性國度，這將是超地域與超國界的。
聖潔生命會的所有分支、會員、會議都為建立這四海一家的精神、世界和平與普遍神性而作出貢獻。
我的工作是要提升人類的宗教意識，以及人類對內在神性的知覺。
在我所有的著作中，我不斷大力強調駕馭外馳的感官，征服內心，淨化心靈，達至內在平安與力量。
我在這個世代出現，是為人類指清道路。
那條道路就是：簡化你的生活，潔淨你的心靈，去除我執與驕傲，培育博愛，修習自律。
侍奉一切眾生，愛一切眾生。
聆聽、反省、冥想。
分析思辨，認識真我。活在永恆之中。
My Mission
I organise medical missions of relief as means of promoting the spirituality of Universal brotherhood and peace.
I organise moral missions to directly preach the gospel of Universal fellowship and the fundamental unity of mankind.
This also will promote world peace.
There will be cultural conquest or triumph of truth through Dharma or righteousness.
I do not believe in the military conquest, achieved by force and violence.
I believe in moral conquest, conquest of hearts, conquest by love and establishing the spiritual empire of righteousness, without any geographical and national frontiers.
The Divine Life Society branches, the Divine Life members and the Divine Life Conferences are doing wonderful work towards the establishment of Universal brotherhood, world peace and Universal Atmanhood.
My work is to rouse the religious consciousness, the awareness of the essential divinity of man
I have laid great emphasis in all my writings upon the discipline of the outgoing senses, conquest of the mind, purification of the heart and attainment of inner peace and strength.
I have appeared in this age to indicate the way unto men.
The way is: simplify your life, purify your heart.
Slay egoism, and pride, cultivate cosmic love, practise self-discipline.
Serve all. Love all. Hear, reflect, meditate. Enquire and know Thyself.
Live in the Eternal.
二十點靈性的閃光
1.跟隨愛的宗教。
2.我是一名真正的基督徒、真正的回教徒、真正的印度教徒、真正的錫克教徒與真正的波斯教徒。
3.我可以走近你，但你一定先要有純潔的內心與強而純淨的意志，才可把我拉近。
4.沒有任何宗教可以壟斷真理或神。每種宗教都有他獨特的寶貴一面，而所有宗教都也有共通的地方。
5.所有宗教的先知都只是用不同的語言來表達永善永真的原理。
6.愛神的人已經沒有宗教了，心裏只有神而已。
7.宗教的本質是把人改造的原理與技巧。人並不是完工了的被造物。
8.人在靈性上尚須打磨，他需要宗教。不同宗教之間需要合作。
9.人從萬殊而邁進齊一是最神聖的朝聖之旅。他在旅途上會經歷憂患與痛苦，而終點目標卻是神的極樂。
10.金錢可以買到藥物，而不是健康。金錢可以買到輕軟的枕頭，而不是熟睡。金錢可以買到物質的享受，而不是永恆的福樂。金錢可以買到飾物，而不是美麗。金錢可以買到音響耳筒，而不是自然的聽覺。達成那至高的富裕智慧，你將會擁有一切。
11.痛苦與死亡存在，他們最終的成因是愚昧。根治的方法就是大梵的知識與至高自性的經驗。
12.人不一定需要等待下一生才嚐回現今的業報。視乎有些惡業，人可以在幾年、幾月、幾周、幾天內受到業報。
13.道德與靈修打開了真理或靈性的大門。
14.讓你的服務不要受到求取認同、權力與地位等動機的污染。你服務的動機應該是全無私心的。
15.奉獻的真義就是只求眾生的福祉，不求任何的回報，包括短暫的或是靈性上的回報。
16.培育博愛，培育神聖的愛。最終人會融入於至美、至真、至樂的大洋。
17.精進增強忍耐，忍耐又提升了精進的程度。
18.靈性道路上的五個階段是淨化、啟明、統合、圓滿與解脫。
19.三摩地就是視萬有為一。
20.在靈性知覺中暢泳。安住於如如不動的神聖知覺之中，躍進永生的河流，目睹神聖美麗的光輝。
Twenty Spiritual Sparks
. I follow the religion of love.
2. I am a true Christian, a true Musalman, a true Hindu, a true Buddhist, a true Sikh and a true Parsi.
3. I can come nearer to you, but you must draw me by a purified heart and a strong, pure will.
4. No religion has monopoly over Truth or God. Each has a particular feature which it specially treasures, but there are also essential aspects common to all.
5. All prophets have only delivered and proclaimed in different languages the same principles of Eternal Goodness and Eternal Truth.
6. The lovers of God have no religion, but God alone.
7. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
8. Man is spiritually impoverished. He has the need for religion. And there is a need for co-operation among religions.
9. Man pilgrimage through the many to the one is the most sacred pilgrimage. His pilgrimage is his journey through sorrow and pain to the goal of bliss in God.
10. Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth wisdom, you will have everything.
11. Pain and death exist. Their ultimate cause is ignorance. Their cure is knowledge of Brahman or experience of the eternal bliss of the Supreme Self.
12. One need not necessarily or always have to wait for another birth to enjoy the fruits of present Karmas. According to the demerit of the Karmas one can experience their fruits within years, months, weeks, or days.
13. Ethics and spiritual practices open the door to Truth or the spirit.
14. Let your service be free from the taint of seeking recognition, power or position. Let your motive be altruistic.
15. Sacrifice means an act directed to the welfare of all life without receiving or desiring a return for it, either of a temporal or spiritual nature.
16. Cultivate cosmic love. Cultivate divine love. It will finally merge in the ocean of beauty, Truth and Bliss.
17. Endeavour enables man to endure and endurance stimulates his endeavour.
18. Purification, illumination, unification, perfection and liberation are the stages in the spiritual path.
19. Samadhi is seeing things as a whole as one.
20. Swim in the ocean of spiritual awareness. Enjoy the stupendous stillness of God-consciousness. Plunge in the river of eternal life. Behold the eternal light of Divine Beauty.
自性培育的優點
1.自性培育是靈性意識的綻放。
2.自性培育就是與美善連繫，從美善而來，同時把美善對外宏揚。
3.人的本性與行為中的美善，構成了這個人生命的基石。
4.生命的福音就是無所執著、靈魂不滅、以及靈魂的最終解脫。
5.真誠是生命的基本律則。真誠是途徑也是最終的目標。
6.真誠就是公正、公平與嚴守道德倫理的基本律則。
7.真誠是生的律則，虛假是死的律則。
8.實踐真誠是最大的苦行。
9.真誠是無私地愛個人與世界的律則。
10.真誠與愛可以並行不悖。
11.愛是世上最大的治療力量。
12.愛是生命的律則。
13.愛帶來希望，把理性放開。
14.愛讓人不想壞的事物，施恩不望報，不計較他人的動機，只看事情的光明一面。
15.愛是無私的服務、仁愛、慈悲、親情與互助、諒解、忍耐與善意。
16.自我犧牲、布施濟眾、克己自律是健康快樂的基礎。
17.瑜伽的基礎是自我駕馭。
18.熱切慕道、獨自靜坐、冥想、保持警覺。
19.惰性是最頑強的敵人。
20.欠缺容忍就是宗教的滅亡。
21.沒有私心、內心平安就是自性培育的優點。
Distinct Features Of Self-Culture
1. Culture is the blossoming of the spiritual Consciousness.
2. Culture is that which is related to the Good, which springs from the good and also promotes the good.
3. Goodness of being and doing constitutes the rock bottom of one life.
4. The gospel of life is a gospel of non-attachment, of the immortality of the soul, of the ultimate liberation of the soul.
5. Truth is the basic law of life. Truth is a means and the goal ultimate.
6. Truth is justice, fairplay and adherence to the fundamental laws of ethics of right conduct.
7. Truth is the law of life; falsehood is the law of death.
8. Practice of truth is the greatest penance.
9. Truth is the law of unselfish love for the individual and the world alike.
10. Truth and love do not clash with each other.
11. Love is the greatest healing power in the world.
12. Love is the law of life.
13. Love can hope where reason would despair.
14. Love thinks of no evil, asks nothing for itself in return, imputes no motive and sees only the bright side.
15. Love is selfless service, mercy, compassion, fellowship, helpfulness, understanding, tolerance and good-will.
16. Self-sacrifice, charity, and asceticism are the very bases of well-being.
17. The foundation of Yoga is self-control.
18. Aspire. Sit alone. Meditate. Be vigilant.
19. Inertia is your worst enemy.
20. Intolerance is the bane of religion.
21.Unselfishness and inward peace are the distinct features of self-culture.
二十滴最甜蜜的甘露
1.大梵是永恆的智慧、永恆的美麗、無限的意識與永恆的平安。
2.那純淨的自性是超越了三身(肉身、靈身、種子身)、五層(食物層、生命能層、內心層、理智層、喜樂層)與三種意識狀態(睡覺、夢覺、醒覺)的。
3.大梵的語言是靜默，祂的律則是和諧，祂的本性是不增不減的平安。
4.愛帶來知識，知識帶出愛的道路。
5.在萬殊的對象背後，有那無所不包的齊一。
6.人是主體而非客體，他是知覺者。
7.真誠、仁愛與純潔構成了聖潔生命。
8.神+欲望=人。人-欲望=神。
9.辨別是非之心與純潔，兩者就是固定真誠之斧的軸心。
10.真誠與愛心就是讓我們飛往神那裏的一雙翅膀。
11.沒有美德較真誠更高尚。
12.貪婪、情欲與憤怒是智慧的三大敵人。甘於淡薄，嚴守貞潔與謙恭自處便能遠離他們。
13.一位解脫者是大君王，一位解脫者是大富翁。
14.再生的原因是欲望與愚昧。
15.解脫者在一切活動中都處於三摩地之中。
16.以節制自律來捕捉情欲之魚，以知識之光驅除愚昧之黑暗。
17.三摩地是最高的極樂。那是絕對者之光的經驗，也是一切相對存在的終結。
18.OM 是自性知識的引導，也是打開解脫大門的鑰匙。
19.解脫不是單純離苦的狀態，那是極樂的狀態。
20.解脫是悟證那一元的純淨意識，這是無欲的狀態。
Twenty Sweetest Drops From Ambrosia
1. Brahman is Immortal Wisdom, Eternal Beauty, Infinite Consciousness and Everlasting Peace.
2. The Pure Eternal Atman is Sareera Traya Vilakshana, Panchakosha Vyatirikta and Avastha Trayarahita.
3. The language of Brahman is silence. His law is harmony. His nature is abiding peace.
4. Love generates knowledge and knowledge leads one to love.
5. Behind the variety and plurality of objects there is an all-embracing unity.
6. Man is a subject and not an object. He is a seer.
7. Truth, Love, and Purity.These three constitute Divine Life.
8. God plus desire is man. Man minus desire is God.
9. Discrimination and purity are the hubs in which the axle of Truth is fixed.
10. Truthfulness and love are the wings which raise us to God.
11. There is no virtue higher than Truth.
12. Kanchana, Kamini and Kirthi. These three are the enemies of wisdom. Embrace poverty, observe chastity, and practise humility; and you can be free from them.
13. A Jivanmukta is a Mahakarta, a Jivanmukta is a Maha Bhokta.
14. The causes of rebirth are desire and ignorance.
15. A Jivanmukta is always in Samadhi even during all sorts of action.
16. Hook the fish of desire by abstinence. Remove the darkness of ignorance by the light of knowledge.
17. Samadhi is the highest bliss. It is the experience of the light of the Absolute and the end of all relative existence.
18. OM is a guide for the knowledge of the Self and a key to unlock the door of Moksha.
19. Liberation is not merely the absence of all misery. It is a state of Bliss.
20. Moksha is the realisation of the non-dualistic, pure consciousness. It is a state of desirelessness.
直覺的閃光
1.神是俗世沙漠的綠洲。
2.生命的甜蜜在侍奉人群，生命的軸心在冥想於神。
3.信是智慧的眼睛。
4.愛開啟了智慧的眼睛。
5.無私的服務是大喜樂。
6.播了慷慨的種子，收穫是神的愛。
7.完全的愛就是完全不傷害。
8.終點要正確，手段也要正確。
9.自律是與自性幸福的連繫。
10.沒有泯滅自我，便無望得到解脫。
11.失去自我，認回真我。
12.內心寧靜才是真正的禁語。
13.學習忘掉世界，學習經常惦記著神。
Sparks Of Intuition
1. God is the Oasis in the desert of mundane Life.
2. Sweetness of life is service of humanity. The Pivot of Life is meditation on God.
3. Faith is the Eye of Wisdom.
4. Devotion opens that Eye of Wisdom.
5. The Joy of Selfless Service is the greatest Joy.
6. He who sows generosity reaps Love Divine.
7. Perfect Love is perfect Harmlessness.
8. The End should be right and means should also be right.
9. Self-control is the link with the happiness of Self.
10. There is no hope of salvation without annihilation of Egoism.
11. Lose thyself and know thy Self.
12. Silence of the mind is real Mouna or Silence.
13.Learn to forget the world. Learn to remember God always.
NOTE:
奮進吧！我的朋友
1.朋友，你為甚麼哭泣呢？你從來沒有死亡，你為甚麼哭泣呢？你本來就沒有身體，沒有內心。你遠離憂愁、痛苦與虛幻，你是純淨的意識。
2.朋友，你本來就沒有老也沒有死。你哭甚麼呢？努力確認真的我就是智慧、永恆不朽、齊一的要義、如天空之無所不包。
.你既非生，也非死。你就是無性無相的大梵，我的孩子，對你而言，又何來綑綁與解脫呢？
4.朋友，你為何哭泣？喝那永恆的甘露，成為一切小我的大我。
5.明白這唯一的純淨意識時無思想無內心的。明白這唯一的意識是沒有感官、沒有生命能、沒有理智的。
6.因(這個純淨意識)遍存在於果之中。果不遍存於因之中。果是虛幻的，因此，緊扼著那因、那真實者。
7.通過冥想與真切的禱告與那內在者(神)溝通。把你心中的困難坦然暴露在祂面前，祂會賜給你靈性的力量與智慧。
8.冥想帶來舒暢、力量、平安、安靜、成功與人格的建立，因此，恆常冥想吧。
9.憂慮耗盡你所有的能量，而且於事無補，因此，放下憂慮，向神禱告，一切困難都會終結。
10.他是無求、自律、無欲、平靜與恆定的，將可達到開悟。我的朋友，你是純淨而無軀體的，你也沒有內心。你是永恆不朽、無處不在的自性、至高的真實。確認這點，感覺這點，悟證這點而得到解脫。
Cheer Up, O Friend!
1. Why do you weep, O Friend! You have no death. Why do you weep? You are bodiless and mindless. You are free from sorrow, pain, and delusion. You are Pure Consciousness, O friend!
2. There is neither old age nor death for you; Friend! why do you weep? Assert, am the Wisdom, Immortal, the Homogeneous Essence, all-pervading like the Sky?
3. You are neither born nor dead. You are the pure attributeless Brahman. How can there be bondage and liberation for you, O Child!
4. O Friend! why do you weep? Drink the nectar of Immortality. Become the Self of the self.
5. Know the One Pure Consciousness which is without thought and mind. Know the One Consciousness which is without senses, Prana and intellect.
6. The Cause (Pure Consciousness) pervades the effect. The effect does not pervade the Cause. The effect is unreal. Therefore take hold of the Cause, the Real.
7. Commune with the indweller (God) through meditation and heartfelt prayer. Lay bare the troubles of your heart to Him. He will instil in you spiritual strength and Wisdom.
8. Meditation gives comfort, strength, peace, poise, success and develops your personality. Therefore meditate regularly.
9. By worrying all your energies are wasted. No useful purpose is served thereby. So give up all worries. Pray to God. All worries will end.
10. He who is desireless, self-controlled, passionless, tranquil and steady attains Self-realisation.
11.You are Pure and Bodiless. You have no mind. You are the Immortal, all-pervading Atman, the Supreme Truth. Assert This. Feel This. Realise this and be free, O Friend!
NOTE:摘自
http://www.blancoage.com/boardtest/afall_nofso003/showtopic.asp?page=4&Topic_ID=34794&forum_id=59&reply_order=asc
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