上師和內在之光
作者：斯瓦米拉瑪 (摘自：三摩地：智慧的至高狀態)
譯者：Sujata
如果你準備好自己去認識更高的知識，那麼你會值得擁有。值得擁有意謂增加你的能力，你想要把整個大海放到一個水桶中，大海就在那裏，你能夠擁有，但你沒有這樣的能力，當你值得了，你就會有這樣的能力，上天，真相，真實一直都在你的內在，你只需要覺知，你可以認真努力來成就自己。
不要因為失敗而失望，當你開始認真努力開始修行，你會在道上見到光，光本身會引導你，覺醒之光就在你的內在，如果你忽略那光，外在的引導，外在的老師，對你而言一點用處也沒有，他會讓你變成奴隸，每個個體(對神或真理)都有特定的概念，那樣的老師就也活在人們的概念中，他創造出數以百的跟隨者，被搖晃著誤導著。
你知道引導的意思嗎？"上師"這個字已經被庸俗化了，如此虔誠的字眼被誤用，我稱為引導，不要去依賴那樣的引導，最好你自己準備好保持覺醒，經文說要從深沉的無明睡眠中覺醒，要保持完全的覺醒，保持意識，持續學習。永不關上學習的大門，你關上門的那天你的世界就會充滿自我，自我，自我
在喜馬拉雅山上，老師檢驗學生，學生也檢驗老師，當我的上師把我送去給各種不同的老師時他告訴我："一位能夠長時間穩坐不動的是一位好老師，因為表示他常常練習，傾聽他的言語，如果一位老師在五分鐘內換了好多姿勢，就別浪費時間在他那裏了。" 偉大的經典描述了許多特定的徵兆和特徵，經典能夠幫助學生知道誰是好老師以至於不浪費時間，否則，我們身為老師在做甚麼？
假設你想去紐約，你來到斯瓦米拉瑪跟前問方向，斯瓦米拉瑪跟你說從這裡走，你遇到別的拉瑪跟你說："喔，拜託，他甚麼都不知道，應該從這裡走" 學生很認真，另一位老師說："兩個拉瑪都是笨蛋，你最好從這裡走"，在這時間點，可憐的人已經浪費了十二年，卻哪裡也去不了。
老師的意思就是"知識"，應跟隨知識，而非老師的個人人格，主題才是重點，不是個人，老師個人可能很複雜，瑜珈科學就是因此受困，一位老師說："這是我的方法" 另外一位老師說："這是我的方法" 可憐的學生就困惑住了，過了一段時間，他找到他的心，他的個體，但他的錢包已被扒光。
當你開始覺知內在的光，那個光會顯化真相給你，沒有被誤導的機會，老師來來去去，外在老師身上你可以擷取有用的，放掉那些沒有用的，毫無疑問，你需要老師，一個引導，我從未說過你不應該追尋或者跟別人學習，或從書籍學習。但老師只能鼓勵你，讓你覺知道你久忘的自我存在，他們的腳色是要去讓你覺知到實相。
你不需要任何新的形式，基督徒不用變成印度教徒，印度教徒不用變成佛教徒，佛教徒也不用變成其他的教徒，他們應該保持原來不要去為自己創造任何新的嚴重的問題，一個你認識很久的魔鬼總比一個不認識的魔鬼好，記住這個，無論身處何處，試著讓你的生活快樂
當你開始走在正道，你再不會發現困難，因為有內在之光。你內在的光會透出，當我看著你們的臉龐，我能夠知道他們都不同是因為光有區隔的能力，那個光能夠正確的判斷，了解和知悉。那光超越任何太陽，月亮，星辰的光芒，那也是為何人類超越所有外在你看到的光的原因。
瑜珈科學告訴你去探索你存在的內在不同層次，讓本來如是內在的光引導你，那會在黑暗中給你指引，如果你了解內在的光，當你遇見了那光，你再不會渴求任何外在的引導，學習讓你居留在黑暗中所以你能看見光，不是表面的光，表面的光只會創造麻煩同時阻擋你遇見內在之光。
在日月星辰的光芒中，沒有區別，你內在的光明有區別的能力，你能夠用那光去看見你最內在房間最黑暗的角落，因此你不需要外在的指引，一個引導者，上師或者老師都是為了把你介紹給那光而存在。
Guru and the Light Within
by Swami Rama
From: Samadhi:The Highest State of Wisdom
By Swami Rama
If you prepare yourself to know the higher knowledge, then you will deserve. To deserve means to increase yourcapacity. You want to put the entire ocean in a bucket. The ocean is there. You can have it, but you do not have thecapacity. When you deserve, you will have the capacity. The Lord, the Reality, the Truth, is always within you. You simplyhave to become aware. You can make sincere efforts to work with yourself.
Don’t be disappointed with failures. When you start to make sincere efforts and start to practice, you will find light onthe path. The light itself will guide you. The light of consciousness is within you. If you ignore that light, the guide outside you, the external teacher, will be of no use to you. He will make you a slave. Every individual has certain notions. He also lives with his notions. He creates a following and millions of people are swayed and misguided.
Do you know what a guide means? The word guru has been vulgarized. Such a pious word is being misused. I call it guide. Do not depend much on guides. It is better for you to prepare yourself and remain awake. The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance. Remain fully awake, remain conscious, and go on learning. Never close the door of learning. The day you close the door of learning you become ego, ego, ego.
In the Himalayas the teacher examines the student and the student examines the teacher. When my master sent me to various teachers he told me, “The teacher who can sit still for a long time is a good teacher because he has practiced something. Listen to him. If the teacher changes his posture many times in five minutes, do not waste your time there.”
There are certain signs and symptoms that have been explained by the great scriptures. The scriptures help the student to know who is a good teacher so he does not waste much time. Otherwise, what are we teachers doing?
Suppose you want to go to New York. You come to Swami Rama for directions and Swami Rama says to go this way. You meet a different Rama on the way and he says, “Oh, come on! He does not know anything. Go this way.” And the student is very sincere. Then another teacher says, “Both Ramas are fools. Better go this way.” By that time the poor fellow has wasted twelve years and he is nowhere.
The word teacher means “knowledge.” The knowledge should be followed, not the individual personality of the teacher. The subject should be given prime importance, not the individual. Teachers have complicated things. Yoga science has suffered because of this. One teacher says, “This is my method.” Another teacher says, “This is my method.” The poor student is confused. After some time he finds that his mind, his individuality, and his pocket have been robbed.
When you become aware of the light within, and that light reveals the Truth to you, there are no chances of being misguided. Teachers come and go. From your external teacher just pick up that which is useful for you and leave that which is not useful. No doubt you need a teacher, a guide. I will never tell you that you should not seek and you should not learn from other people, or that you should not study books. Teachers only inspire you and make you aware of that Self-existence that you have forgotten. Their role is to make you aware of the Reality.
You do not need any new form. Christians should not become Hindu, Hindus should not become Buddhist, and Buddhists should not become anything else. They should remain as they are and not create any serious new problems for themselves. A known devil is better than an unknown devil. Remember this. Try to make your life happy wherever you are.
Yoga science tells you to go to the inner levels of your being and be guided by the light that is already within you, that leads you in the darkness. If you understand the light within, when you are introduced to that light, you will not crave for any outer guidance. Learn to make your abode in darkness so that you can see the light, but not the superficial light. Superficial light creates problems for you and does not allow you to see the light within.
When you start treading the path you will never find any difficulty, for the light is already within you. The light within you is coming out. When I look at your faces I find that they are different because of the light that has the power of discrimination. That light can correctly judge and understand and know. That light is higher than any other light of the sun, the moon, and the stars. That is why human beings are superior to all these lights that you see outside yourself.
In the light of the sun, in the light of the moon, and in the light of the stars there is no discrimination. The light within you has the power of discrimination. You can use that light to see the darkest corners of your inner chamber. For that you do
not need outer guidance. The purpose of a guide, guru, or teacher is to introduce you to that light.
