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進化並非本我的一部份  Evolution：Not Part Of The Self

237 2000/01/20 德國靜心所

你在進化嗎？假如你在進化的話，你就未處於本我中，但你也並非在本我之外，因為天地萬物無一能存在於本我之外。（笑聲）

有六種變相不存在於本我中：

1.      擴展（Prasarana─婆娑拉那）。擴展暗示著有個可由內而外擴展的東西。而那會擴展的事物無法作為擴展的基礎。

2.      收縮（Akunchana─阿昆查那）。收縮意味由某樣東西縮成另一樣東西。本我並不會退縮或從任何事物收縮，因此收縮不存在本我中。

3.      進化（Vriddhi─偉瑞地）。進化是變成一個尚未存在之事物的過程。本我始終如一，因此它不會進化。

4.      衰退（Kshaya─克殺亞）。本我中沒有退化或是消退。本我不會變衰老或陳腐。因此當你接近自己的本我時，你不會感覺自己在老化。

5.      開始（Anaadi─阿那地）。本我沒有開始。假如上帝有開端的話，祂就不是上帝。

6.      匱乏（Abhava─阿巴瓦）。本我沒有匱乏。任何匱乏的總是不完整。本我並不匱乏任何東西；它是完整的。匱乏意味著有某樣東西，它存在於自身之外，而那東西對本我是不存在的。因此假如你感覺自己毫無成長，不用擔心，你離本我已經很近了。（笑聲）

當你的心智與本我在一起時，你並不會擔心進化。假如你在想著進化，那你就執著於心智中。心智是物質的一部份，而物質會進化與衰退。

因此收縮與擴展的經驗全都是心智的活動與展現。心智會擴展與收縮，當心智擴展時，它就接近那無擴展性的真理。

你仍在進化嗎？祝你好運！

237 EVOLUTION: NOT PART OF THE SELF

Weekly Knowledge #237 Bad Antogast 20 Jan 2000 Germany

Are you evolving? If you are evolving, you are not in the Self. And you are not out of the Self, because nothing can exist out of the Self. (Laughter)

Broadly they can be put in these 5 catagories.

There are six distortions that do not exist in the Self.

1. Expansion -- Prasarana. Expansion indicates there is already something into which something expands. That which expands cannot be the basis for expansion.


2. Contraction -- Akunchana. Contraction means something shrinks from something else. Self does not withdraw or shrink from anything, so contraction does not exist in the Self.


3. Evolution -- Vriddhi. Evolution is becoming something which it is not already. Self is the same, so it cannot evolve.


4. Decay -- Kshaya. There is no devolution or decay in the Self. It doesn't get old or stale. That's why, when you are close to your Self, you don't feel that you are aging.


5. Beginning -- Anaadi. Self has no beginning. If God has a beginning, then He is no God.


6. Lack -- Abhava. Self has no lack. Whatever lacks something is not complete. Self does not lack anything, it is complete. Lack indicates existence of something outside itself. That doesn't exist for the Self. So if you feel you have not grown at all, don't worry, you are close to the Self. (Laughter)

When your mind is with the Self, then you don't worry about evolution. If you are thinking about evolving, then you are stuck in the mind. And mind is part of the matter, and matter evolves and decays.

And that is how the experience of contraction and expansion is all play and display of the mind. Mind expands and contracts. When it expands, it comes close to the truth, which has no expansion.

Are you still evolving? Good luck!!

NEWS FLASH:

A distressed devotee went to Guruji this week when her pregnant daughter began to hemorrhage and the baby was thought by the doctors to be dead. The next day news came that the bleeding had stopped and the baby's heartbeat was again detected.

After a weekend of intimate satsangs with the devotees in Holland, Guruji is back in Bad Antogast.

JAl GURU DEV