斯瓦米韋達精選佳句集
譯者：Sujata
當你和你的自我面對面，要完全不留情面，承認你自己必須日曬雨淋不斷改善，把你的煞車和方向盤都修好，準備好迎接最後那痛楚的爆裂，將自我燃燒殆盡。
"As soon as you come face to face with your 'Ego', be completely merciless with yourself.Recognize that you have to work in sun and rain to get your brakes and steering fixed. Be prepared to go through a final burst of pain, to burn off that wart of ego"
靜坐之道充滿安詳寧靜，並不是冒險之旅。當你抵達寧靜之境，開始摸索無限，你的靜坐就是慢慢在進步中。
"The path of meditation is one of the tranquility and calm and not of adventure trips.If you reach a state of tranquility and begin to grope for a touch of infinity, your meditation is succeeding".
紀律是把你人格中一些化學元素拿掉，再用其他特定的化學元素取代，目的是引導走入淨化。
"Discipline,is excluding certain 'chemicals'and adding certain other 'chemicals' to your personality which are conducive to its purification".
如果你想要聖母的祝福，那麼就必須尊重宇宙的女士，用靜坐剃刀刮掉心的鬍渣。
"If you want Devi Ma's darshan
respect the Lady of the universe and shave off the mind stubble with meditation razor".
死亡不是別的，它是回到中心的經驗，心是能量場域，這個能量場域有一個核心，一個中心。在死亡的時刻，能量收攝，回歸中心。因此，死亡就是回歸中心。
"What else is death, but an experience of centeredness? The mind is a field of energy.This energy field has a core, a center.At the
hour of death it withdraws and returns to the center.
Thus centeredness is death".
當我們上師的聖靈離開了身體這座雕像，我們不用對一般人死亡的描述，我們會說他抵達三摩地。他不斷棒打編織三摩地之毯，不容許斷線，坐在意識的石窟中，他賜予許多人這樣的恩典。
"When sacred beings of the stature of our Gurudev leave the body, we do not use the same words that we use for someone else's death. We say he has taken samadhi. He spins and weaves the fabric of Samadhi,not permitting the thread to break at all Sitting in the grotto of consciousness he grants to many such a grace".
"Bondage is death,the Karmic bondage.It is for this reason that when a liberated being leaves the body atleast at that time we are supposed to rejoice at his liberation. We don't. That is our ignorance, but for him it is a moment of greatest delight- liberation from the solitary confinement in the 5-6 foot prison of the body. It is the greatest reunion, the entry into the mother silence from which He was born".
上師傳承的內在極致靜默永恆不變，靜默就是最真摯的祈禱文，如果你知道如何進入那份靜默，你每天都能和上師見面。
"One thing that does not change is the interior most silence of the Guru lineage and that silence is the true prayer.If you know how to enter that silence you can meet your Guru everyday".
我用我的能量場抱住你的能量場，我把你包裹在我的靜坐圍巾中，將你我心的界線變得模糊，從來就沒有所謂個人的心場。
"I hug your mind field with my mind field"......."I wrap you in my meditation shawl and blur the distinctions between my mind and yours.....there is no individual mindfield".
我照看並且洗刷我的心靈，但這麼久以來，還是沒法去除所有的汙垢，你甚麼時候才要開始你的心靈洗滌呢？
"I watched and washed my mind,all the stains are not yet gone , when will you start with yours"?
心是天神和天使們的舞會大廳和遊戲場，只要換首心靈之樂，就能見到這些舞者開始聚集。
"Mind is the dancing hall and playground of devas and angels.Just change your mind's music and see how these dancers come on folicking".
經常收攝到一個安靜的所在，那個地方不需要房租，那裏就是你的心~
"Retreat regularly at a quiet place where you have to pay no rent-your heart".
打開脈輪意味關上脈輪，關上向外的流動，導引那強烈的能量流向內部。
"Opening the cakras means closing the cakras, closing off their outward flow and diverting their intensive energy into the inward flow".
持咒是淨化的秘密，持咒是意願的秘密，放下所有其他的技巧，保護好你的持咒，你就會得到一切。
"Japa is the secret of purity.
Japa is the secret of aspiration.
Leave out all other techniques.
Perfect your japa and you've got everything".
Cataclysms are readjustments for renewal. Know this and you will emerge as a fresh flower after a stormy night.
微妙的驕傲是罪惡，我們不知它潛伏於何處，尋找到它並且戰勝它！~斯瓦米韋達
Subtle pride is sinister; one does not know where it lurks.
Seek it out and vanquish it.
謙卑才有力量，其他的力量都微不足道。
Humility is power. Any other power is weakness.
當你有一種無法控制的衝動非講不可的時候，也就是你應該保持沉默的時刻。
When you have an uncontrollable urge to speak, that is the time you must go silent.
請總是保持快樂，快樂不需要理由，沒有原因。
Be happy, for no reason, from no cause, at all times.
比快樂更高的是寧靜。
Better than happiness is serenity.
當你來到上師的修道院，你是準備好來變成灰燼，接受燃燒，讓憤怒燃燒，讓躁動燃燒，讓想被認可的慾望燃燒。
"You come to the Guru's ashram to become ashes,to be burned,
to have your anger burned,to have your irritation burned, to have your desire for recognition burned".
對總是引導、給予、指點我正道的上師頂禮，完全的臣服、禮敬。
"Tasmai Shri Guru murtiye namah,idam shri dakshina murtiye".
Unto that Guru-form who always guides me,gives me,points me in the right direction, my homage, my prostrations,my namah, I surrender.(from Dakshinamurti Stotra)
