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1953	1953年世尊首次公开讲道

在心中膜拜

当我在乌那瓦干大（Uravakonda）一间中学读书时，你知道我有一天离开了学校，将书本抛掉并宣示有任务在等着我去办。那位泰卢固（Thelugu）学者在他的演说中叙述那晚之事给你听。那天我以赛峇峇的身份公开现身。我从泰卢固学者的家去到一座花园，并在花园里教导在那儿聚集的群众第一首峇赞：

“Maanasa bhajare guru charanam Dhusthara bhava saagara tharanam.”

我呼吁在这无止境的生死轮回里受难的人，顶礼在导师的脚下；就是那位正在宣示的导师，祂再度降临以负起那些求祂庇护的人的重担。这是我对人们的第一个教导。 ‘Maanasa bhajare’ （在心中膜拜）。我不需要你的花环和水果，你用钱买的东西，那些不是真正属于你的东西。给我真正属于你的，清洁和带有美德与单纯之芬芳的，及用忏悔的泪水洗净的，东西。你所带来的花环和水果只不过是炫耀的工具，展示你的虔诚罢了；比较贫穷的信徒因买不起而受辱，他们对于自己的无能而感到难过；他们不能够以你那种豪华的形式来表达虔诚。把神放在你心中，把你行为的水果和内在思想与感情的花朵献给祂。那是我最喜欢的膜拜，我最赞赏的虔诚。

不管在什么时代，坚持‘人类的重新教育’

在商店里，物品被包装在个别的包裹里，而每一包都有特定的物品或一组的物品。但是在一个展览会上，许多商店参与，使各种各类的东西都可以买到，而且有很多的橱窗布置和陈列品。在这一段日子里，我一般上都给予个别的忠告，就好像商店里的包裹一样，并对个别的问题给予答复。今天的‘谈话’对你们来说将是一个新的经验。我今天向一个聚会致词；对你们来说可能不习惯，而我却不然。我已经在大集会给过开示，虽然不是以这个‘外貌’出现。每当‘无形’（Niraakaara）成为‘有形’（Sakaara）时，它必须履行使命，并以各种方式去进行。但是，‘人类的重新教育’这一个目标，务必坚持，不管在什么时代。

正如我常对你们说的，这个神圣生命的首十六年注重于‘神圣孩子似的游戏’（Baala leela），而其次的十六年将充满奇迹（Mahimas），以便把快乐（Santhosha）带给这一代。快乐和满足是短暂的感觉；你要抓住这些心情，使之成为一个永久的拥有：福乐（Aanandha）。过了三十二年后，你将看到我越来越活跃在灵性教育（Upadhesa）工作上，教导误入歧途的人类和引导世界走入真理、正义、和平和爱的大道。

我并不是要把奇迹排拒在‘我的活动’之外。我的意思是，重新建立正义，改正人类的诡谲心念和引导人类回返‘永恒的大同宗教’（Sanaathana Dharma）将是我此后的工作。

不要被疑惑和不切实际的争论引入歧途；不要问我是怎样和是否可以做到这些工作。平达湾（Brindhaavan）的牧牛人也怀疑过那位在他们当中长大的小孩是否能够把牛增山（Govardhanagiri）举起。所需要的是信心，更多的信心。

灵性成就的秘诀

有一次基士拿（Krishna）和阿周那（Arjuna）一起在路上走着。看见一只小鸟在天上飞，基士拿问阿周那，“那是一只鸽吗？” 阿周那回答，“是的，牠是一只鸽。” 基士拿再问阿周那，“那是一只鹰吗？” 阿周那立刻回答，“是的，牠是一只鹰。” 基士拿问道，“不，阿周那，以我看来牠像一只乌鸦。牠不是一只乌鸦吗？” 阿周那答道，“对不起，无可怀疑的那是一只乌鸦。”

基士拿大笑并斥责他，不论祂发表什么意见，他都同意。但是阿周那说，“对我来说，你的话比我的眼睛的辨证更有分量；你可以把牠变成一只乌鸦，一只鸽或一只鹰，所以当你说牠是一只乌鸦时，牠一定是一只乌鸦。” 绝对的信心是灵性成就的秘诀。

记住，神所爱的不是信徒本身（Bhaktha），而是信徒的诚心（Bhakthi）。神的恩赐好像雨水，纯洁的水，平均地降落在每一个地方；但是水的味道却根据它流过的泥土而改变。所以神的话对一些人听起来是甜蜜的，而对另外一些人可能是苦涩的。神的方式不可思议；祂这样地祝福维杜罗（Vidhura），“被毁灭吧。”，然而对难降（Dhusshaasana）则这样的说，“活一千年。” 祂意指代表‘我’的维杜罗将被毁灭，而邪恶的难降将会在这个世界遭受十个世纪的磨难。你不会知道神的行动背后的真正原因。你尚不能理解其他人的动机，虽然他们的一切都几乎像你，也被相同的动机所激发和有着相同的喜恶！但是，你却那么轻易地看得出那位远远超越人类的创造者的动机！对一个如此陌生的事物，你竟然夸夸其谈，妄加评论！

痛苦预示新生命的诞生

人有四种：‘死’人 --- 他们否认神的存在，只相信自己的单独存在，独立，自由，自我调节和自我导向。‘病’人 --- 当遭受灾难，或当他们感到暂时失去平时的支援时，才会求助于神；‘迟钝’人 --- 他们知道神是永生的同伴和看守者，但是只有在意识强烈时，才隐约地记得祂；最后一种是‘健康’人 --- 他们坚定地信靠神，常活在祂安稳，充满创造力的存在中。

世间风雨的磨练使你从‘死’到‘生’，从‘病’到‘健康’。世界是一个人必经的基本课程；经过搜索的痛苦，婴儿（智慧）诞生了。痛苦是值得的；痛苦预示新生命的诞生。从动荡不安（Ashaanthi）你达到完全的平静（Prashaanthi），从完全的平静（Prashaanthi）你达到光明的灵性照耀（Prakaanthi）；然后，从光明的灵性照耀（Prakaanthi）达致至上的神圣光辉（Paramjyothi）。这种反复的欢乐与悲哀，就像日夜的交替。日和夜是孪生姐妹，两者都是不可缺的，她们使土地更肥沃，以激活和更新生命。她们好像夏季和冬季。有些人请求我，“峇峇，让这个夏天不太热吧！”但是赤热的夏天让大地获得所需要的太阳能，以便雨水降临时迎来大丰收。

让你的天性闪耀发光

‘冷’和‘热’两者都是神的部署，而你的责任只不过是知道这点，然后对两者都看作是宝贵的。有刺和无刺的植物两者都在自然界里存活；智者知道两者的价值，他先种下无刺的植物，然后四周种下有刺的植物围绕作为防卫。行动可以‘拯救’，也可以‘扼杀’；它好像会咬的猫，它咬住小猫只为了把牠带到安全的地方去；然而猫咬老鼠却是为了杀牠，吃牠。要成为那只小猫，行动就会像一个母亲般救助你。假如成为一只老鼠，那么，你就迷失了。

神把人引近祂；这种密切关系是两者的天性，因为他们是同一的。他们好像铁和磁铁。但是，假如铁生了锈而被一层层的尘埃盖住，磁铁便不能吸住。把障碍除去，这是你所要做的。让你的天性闪耀发光，而神就会把你牵到祂怀里。考验和磨炼是清洗的手段。那就是为什么贡蒂（Kunthi）向基士拿（Krishna）祷告，“不断地给我们悲伤，使到我们永远不会忘记你。”它们好像医生指示的饮食规定和其他限制，用来补充持名（Naamasmarana）的药物效果。

勿放弃修行

赛是众生的至爱（Sarvajanapriya），因此任何令你喜悦的名字，你都可以采用。品味有所不同，它是根据个人经多世的活动而塑造的性情和性格而定。咖啡馆的老板去附近的药商买一粒药丸来消除头痛。当药商老板头痛时，他去咖啡馆喝一杯咖啡，因为他相信咖啡可以医好他。人就是那样的；品味不尽相同（loko bhinna ruchih）。智者（Jnaani）说，“一切寓于神之内（Sarvam Brahma Mayam）”；另一个瑜伽行者（yogi）说，一切是能量；第三个是信徒（Bhaktha），他说一切是主的游戏。每一个人的说法是根据其品味和修行进展。不要催促或嘲笑他们，因为他们全都是在同一条路上的朝圣者。

控制心念和心念所追逐的欲望最需要的就是修行。如果你发现你还未成功，不要放弃修行，反而要更尽力去执行，因为它是一项你不需特别苦读以获得及格分数的科目，不是吗？修行意味着内心的清洁和外在的清洁。如果你在冲凉后穿上未洗过的衣服，你不会感到爽快。同样的，穿上洗过的衣服而不冲凉，你也不会感到爽快。外在和内在（baahya and bhaava），两者都需要。

当你对孩子们说警察要捉他们或鬼要打他们，孩子们都会相信。他们心中充满了恐惧、毅力和信念！可是，上了年纪的你，头脑里充斥着各种的教义、教条、理论和论据，你现在得用你的辨别力（viveka），历经艰难去发现神。我要告诉你这一点，那是无法逃避的；众生有朝一日都得回到神那儿，不论所采取的路线是长是短。

译自1953年薄伽梵于百善地尼乐园的讲道

Maanasa Bhajare

When I was at Uravakonda studying in the High School, you know I came away one day and threw off my books and declared that I have My work waiting for Me. The Thelugu Pandith (scholar) described the incident of that evening to you all in his speech. Well, that day when I came out publicly as Sai Baaba, that first song I taught the gathering in the garden to which I went from the Thelugu Pandith's house was:

“Maanasa bhajare guru charanam Dhusthara bhava saagara tharanam.”

I called on all those suffering in the endless round of birth and death to worship the Feet of the Guru (spiritual preceptor), the Guru that was announcing Himself, who had come again for taking upon Himself the burden of those who find refuge in Him. That was the very first Message of Mine to Humanity. "Maanasa bhajare." "Worship in the mind!" I do not need your flower garlands and fruits, things that you get for an anna or two; they are not genuinely yours. Give Me something that is yours, something which is clean and fragrant with the perfume of virtue and innocence, and washed in the tears of repentance! Garlands and fruits you bring as items in the show, as an exhibition of your devotion; poorer devotees who cannot afford to bring them are humiliated and they feel sorry that they are helpless; they cannot demonstrate their devotion in the grand way in which you are doing it. Install the Lord in your heart and offer Him the fruits of your actions and the flowers of your inner thoughts and feelings. That is the worship I like most, the devotion I appreciate most.

Re-education of man persists in all eras

In shops, things are kept in separate packets and each one specialises in some particular article or sets of articles. But in an Exhibition, hundreds of shops join to make all varieties of things available and there is a great deal of window-dressing, arrangement and display. I have been all these days generally giving individual advice, like the packets available in shops and giving answers to individual questions. This 'speech' today, is a new experience for you. I am addressing a gathering today; but even though it may be new to you, for Me it is not new. I have given advice to large gatherings before, though not in this Appearance. Whenever Niraakaara (formless) becomes Sakaara (one with form), it has to fulfill the Mission and it does so in various ways. But the one purpose, the re-education of Man persists, whatever the yuga (the era).

The first sixteen years of this Life have been, as I have often told you, the period when Baala leela (divine child sport) predominated and the next sixteen is being spent mostly in Mahimas (miracles) in order to give santhosha (joy) to this generation. Joy and contentment are short-lived sensations; you have to catch that mood and make it a permanent possession: Aanandha (bliss). After the thirty-second year, you will see Me active more and more in the task of Upadhesa (spiritual instruction) --- teaching erring humanity and in directing the World along the path of Sathya, Dharma, Shaanthi and Prema (Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love).

Not that I am determined to exclude leela and mahima from My activity after that. I only mean that re-establishing Dharma, correcting the crookedness of the human mind and guiding humanity back to Sanaathana Dharma (eternal universal religion) will be My task thereafter.

Do not be led away by doubt and vain argument; do not question how and whether I can do all this. The cowherds of Brindhaavan also doubted whether the little boy who grew in their midst could lift Govardhanagiri and hold it aloft! The thing needed is Faith, and yet more Faith.

Secret of Spiritual Success

Once Krishna and Arjuna were going together along the open road. Seeing a bird in the sky, Krishna asked Arjuna, "Is that a dove?" He replied, "Yes, it is a dove." He asked Arjuna, "Is it an eagle?' Arjuna replied promptly, "Yes, it is an eagle." "No, Arjuna, it looks like a crow to Me. Is it not a crow?" asked Krishna. Arjuna replied, "I am sorry, it is a crow beyond doubt."

Krishna laughed and chided him for his agreeing to whatever suggestion was given. But Arjuna said, "For me, your Words are far more weighty than the evidence of my eyes; you can make it a crow, a dove or an eagle and when you say it is a crow, it must be one." Implicit faith is the secret of spiritual success.

The Lord loves, not the Bhaktha (devotee) but his Bhakthi, remember. The Lord's Grace is like rain, pure water, falling equally everywhere; but its taste gets changed according to the soil through which it flows. So also the Lord's words are sweet to some, bitter to others. The Lord's ways are mysterious; He blessed Vidhura with the words, "Be destroyed" and Dhusshaasana with the words, "Live for a thousand years;" He meant that Vidhura's 'I' will be destroyed and that the wicked Dhusshaasana will have to suffer the ills and tribulations of this world for ten centuries. You do not know the real reasons behind the actions of the Lord. You cannot understand the motives of other men who are almost like you in everything, actuated by the same motives and having the same likes and dislikes! But yet, how easily you discover the motives of One who is far, far above the level of Man! How glibly you talk and judge of something that is as strange to you as atmosphere to a fish!

Pains indicate birth of new life

There are four types of persons; the 'dead,' who deny the Lord and declare that they alone exist, independent, free, self-regulating and self-directed; the 'sick,' who call upon the Lord when some calamity befalls them or when they feel temporarily deserted by the usual sources of succour; the 'dull,' who know that God is eternal companion and watchman, but who remember it only off and on when the idea is potent and powerful; and lastly, the 'healthy,' who have steady faith in the Lord and who live in His comforting creative presence always.

You proceed from 'death' to 'life' and from 'illness' to 'health' by the experience of the buffetings of the World. The World is a very essential part of the curriculum of man; through the agony of search is born the infant, wisdom. The pains are worthwhile; they indicate the birth of new life. From Ashaanthi (restlessness) you get Prashaanthi (absolute peace), from Prashaanthi to Prakaanthi (bright spiritual illumination); and from Prakaanthi, Paramjyothi (Supreme Divine radiance). It is like the alternating of night and day, this recurrence of joy and grief. Night and day are twin sisters, both are necessary to increase the fertility of the soil, to activate and refresh Life. They are like summer and winter. There are some who ask Me, 'Baaba! Make this summer less hot!' But in the heat of summer the Earth takes in the needed energy from the Sun, so that when the rains come, she may yield a plentiful harvest.

Shine forth in your real nature

'Cold' and 'heat' are both in the Plan of God and yours is only to know this and treat both as valuable. Thorny plants and thornless plants are both there in nature; the wise man knows the value of both; he plants the thornless one and surrounds it with the thorny ones, so that what he fosters is left unharmed. Activity can save, as well as kill; it is like the cat which bites; it bites the kitten in order to carry it in its mouth to a place of safety; it bites the rat in order to kill and eat. Become the kitten; and work will rescue you like a loving Mother. Become a rat; and you are lost.

God draws the Individual towards itself; it is the nature of both to have this affinity, for they are the same. They are like the iron and the magnet. But if the iron is rusty covered with layers of dirt, the magnet is unable to attract. Remove the impediment; that is all you have to do. Shine forth in your real nature and the Lord will draw you into His Bosom. Trials and tribulations are the means by which this cleansing is done. That is why Kunthi prayed to Krishna, "Give us always grief, so that we may never forget Thee." They are like the dietary and other restrictions that the doctor prescribes to supplement the effect of the drug of Naamasmarana (remembrance of God).

Do not give up saadhana

Sai is Sarvajanapriya (beloved to all people) and so any name which gives you joy, you can take up. Tastes differ according to temperament and the character one has earned by generations of activity as a living being in this world. The proprietor of a coffee house goes to the nearby druggist for a pill to ward off his headache, and the druggist when he gets a headache goes to the coffee house for a cup of coffee which he thinks will cure him. Men are like that; loko bhinna ruchih (tastes of people differ). The Jnaani says, "Sarvam Brahma mayam:" In God is All;" another, a yogi, says all is energy; a third, who is a bhaktha, says all is the play of Bhagavaan (the Lord). Each according to his taste and according to his progress in saadhana (spiritual practice). Do not hurry or ridicule them, for they are all pilgrims trudging along the same road.

Saadhana is most required to control the mind and the desires after which it runs. If you find that you are not able to succeed, do not give up the Saadhana but do it more vigorously, for it is the subject in which you did not get passing marks that requires special study, is it not? Saadhana means inner cleanliness as well as external cleanliness. You do not feel refreshed if you wear unwashed clothes after your bath, do you? Nor do you feel refreshed if you wear washed clothes, but skip the bath. Both are needed, the baahya and the bhaava (the external as well as the internal).

Children believe your words when you say that the policeman will catch them or the ghost will beat them. They are full of fear, fortitude and faith! But having grown old and stuffed your heads with all kinds of doctrines and dogmas and theories and arguments, you have now to use your viveka (discrimination) and discover God the hard way. This I will tell you, there is no escaping it; all creatures have to reach God some day or other, by the long route or by the short route.

Prashaanthi Nilayam, Vijayadhashami, 1953