愛與情慾 Love and Lust
#194 1999/3/4 印度 瑞希克西
處於愛中甚至物體也會有生命。石頭會對你傾訴，樹木會對你呢喃，太陽、月亮和整個創造界變得活潑而神聖。
處於情慾中甚至活生生的人也會變成物體。你甚至會把人當成物體來使用。
以下是愛與情慾的一些明顯特徵。它們完全不同卻又十分相近！如果你找到更多特質，可以加進去：
情慾帶來緊張；愛帶來放鬆。
情慾的焦點在個體；愛著重於整體。
情慾帶出暴力；愛帶出犧牲。
處於情慾，你緊抓不放想要佔有；處於愛中，你想要付出給予並且臣服。
情慾說：「我希望你擁有的一切都是我想要的」；愛說：「我要你擁有你想要的。」
情慾帶著費力；而愛是毫不費力的。
情慾造成焦燥不安與挫折；愛形成渴慕與痛苦。
情慾帶來束縛與破壞；愛帶來解放與自由。
情慾索求；愛贏取。
情慾使你混亂困惑；處於愛中，你是專一的，腦子一片空白！
情慾只有黑暗與單調；愛則是千變萬化、色彩繽紛。
情慾受到干擾時，一個人會憤怒並開始憎恨。今日世間的憎恨，並非出於愛而是出於情慾。
愛是嬉戲，而情慾則帶著狡詐與操緃。
希瓦(Shiva)──純真與愛的化身──正在靜坐。他的靜心受到情慾之神的花箭所干擾。當希瓦一醒過來就張開他的第三眼，情慾之神綿麻它瓦(Manmathava，那位攪動心智者)即化為灰燼。
每一個人都相互拋擲著五顏六色的東西來慶祝，因為他們體會到生命是多彩多姿的。
在生命中我們扮演著各式各樣的角色。假如所有的角色混淆不清時，那就變得混濁了，就好像你把各種顏色摻雜在一起般。智者把每一個角色都逐一扮演得清清楚楚，就好像不同的顏色並肩陳列而形成一道彩虹般。
194 LOVE AND LUST
Weekly Knowledge #194 Rishikesh 04 Mar 1999 India
Doubt cannot come where there is a sense of closeness. Doubt needs a distance to appear. You never doubt something that is dear to you, close to you.
In love even an object gains life. Stones speak to you, trees speak to you, the sun, the moon and the whole creation becomes alive, Divine. In lust even a living being becomes a mere object. You want to use even people like objects. Here are some salient attributes of love and lust. They are so different yet so close! If you find more you may add to the list.
Lust bring tension
Love brings relaxation
Lust focuses on the part
Love focuses on the whole
Lust brings violence
Love brings sacrifice
In lust you want to grab and possess
In love you want to give and surrender
Lust says all I want you to have is what I want
Love says I want you to have what you want
In lust there is effort
Love is effortless
Lust causes feverishness and frustration
Love causes longing and pain
Lust imprisons and destroys
Love liberates and sets you free
Lust demands
Love commands
Lust gets you mixed up and confused
In love you are focused and spaced out!!
Lust is only dark and monotonous
Love has many modes and colours
If someone's lust is interrupted they get angry and start hating. Hatred in the world today is not out of love, it is out of lust.
Love is playfulness and in lust there is cunningness and manipulation. Shiva, the embodiment of innocence and love was meditating. His meditation was disturbed by an arrow of flowers from the lord of lust. As soon as Shiva woke up he opened his third eye and the lord of lust, Manmatha (one who churns the mind) was reduced to ashes. Everybody celebrated by throwing colors on each other realising that life is full of colours.
We play many roles in our life. If all the roles get mixed up it becomes dark, like when you mix all the colours. The wise play each role distinctively side by side, like colors displayed side by side form a rainbow.
NEWS FLASH !
Only ten thousand people attended the Calcutta Satsang as public transport was closed down, by a State-wide bandh(strike). Thedecorations, Satsang and Guruji's talk all combined to create a dream world. People are still in a daze after so many days.
Onto the Pink City (Jaipur), for a dignitaries' meeting, followed by wonderful satsang which saw the thronging crowd playing with flowers. On this tour a couple came up with a unique way of showing their gratitude, a giant rose garland weighing over sixty pounds!!
Now the celebration continues in Rishikesh - people from all over North India came to celebrate Holi, the festival of colours, with the master.
JAl GURU DEV
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