向一位高中同學提到這本書，因為沒有中文，翻譯一下看他是否喜歡。同學肺癌已經骨轉，希望他讀後能得到一些安慰，沒有嚴格按照原文翻譯，隻是節選。順手貼一下這裏。
你可能是一個非常偉大的人，你可能是世界的獨裁者，但是當你睡著時，你會忘記你自己的標誌 ---你的名字，你的身體，你的年齡，你的性別，你的國籍，關於你的一切。
或者你可能是一個謙虛，善良的人。每當你入睡，你就會忘記了罪惡，忘記了美德；你忘記了自己。這什麽是基本事實呢？就是你當忘記自己作為一個個體的人，讓你能夠得到深深地休息。
在你入睡前，你可能與上百個女人或男人發生性關係。那時你很享受。但是當你入睡後，當你進入深層休息時，那種感官體驗就不存在了。所以當你沒有個體身份時，就沒有負重。不去說你自己如何如何，說是你自己誰誰，是男人或女人。讓你停駐在這一刻，從這一刻在往前行。這一刻是真實(truth)，是事實(fact)，從這裏出發，你可以解脫(go to reality)。如果你停駐在沒有個體特征這一刻(入睡進入深層休息狀態），隨後無論出現什麽，都會自升自滅。譬如日出日落，自然消長。你不是某個具體特征或標簽標誌出的你，那不可能是真實的你自己。
每當你意識到自己是獨立個人，個體時， 你會有很多需求：你想看電影，想聽音樂，想去玩耍，想要性，想吃精美食物，想醉酒。但是每當那種個體感受不存在時（如睡中），你與周圍是一個整體，這時你沒有上述需求。靈性或者宗教主要是引導人們認識到這一點：你不需要身外的任何東西，這些都是真實的你的一部分。當你真正領悟到了這一點，這些欲望會都消失。但是隻要你認為你是獨立個體，是與周圍分隔開的，你會發現自己會有各樣欲望。
認為自己是獨立個體是造成這世上的一切問題的根本原因。各種各樣的事情行為，各樣細節感受，閱讀，追求知識，尋求愉悅，一切都是與此認知有關。一但這種個體認知改變，所有的問題也會為之消散解決。那麽你所體驗到的幸福就是真正的幸福。然而，改變個體認知，並不是說停止上述的各樣活動。你可以做你想做的事，但是永遠不要忘記真實，永遠不要忘記真正的你。你不是你的身體，你不是仰賴存命與食物與空氣。所有表現出來的，隻是一個暫時狀態，都會成為過去。
我上麵所說的你們中的大多數人都不會明白，因為你們認為你們隻是你們的那具軀體（你們認為身體是你們的全部）。我所傳達的種種知識，不是針對軀體的，而是針對真正的你。隻要你堅信你是那具軀體，無論我講述什麽，都不會對你有任何益處。因為你所吸納進入的，都是經過那個軀體性的思維，隻不過是擴增了你的現有知識庫，然後會感受到自己更博學多識了而已。例如，明天一些占星家或者手相家可能想來告訴我：”我想告訴你你未來的事。”他怎麽可能知道我的未來？因為我根本不在時空裏。對你來說，當他預言你未來會成為美國總統，你可能會非常高興。可是對我來說不會這樣。
世上所的一切行為都因其屬性和趨勢性。譬如，一個人在一個月中離了四次婚。這個人的行為由這個數量和趨勢表現出來。而主導這個行為的人是不止這兩個屬性的。對他來說，他是他感覺到的他自己” 我是” (“I am”)。當人感覺” 我是” ，周圍的世界也出現了，一旦當” 我是”，這種我的感覺消失，周圍世界也隨之消失，如進入睡眠狀態。所以＂我是＂是與周圍的世界是一體的，不是分割的。” 我是” 是這個世界的目擊者, 這個世界存在是因為＂我是＂這個個人感受存在。如果一個入睡時，他沒有＂我是＂的認知，那一刻世界在他那裏是不存在的。
就象太陽和它的光線一樣。如果沒有太陽，陽關就不存在了。同樣的，一旦＂我是＂出現，周圍的一切隨之而來。如果這個目擊者＂我是＂不在了，他周圍的世界也就不存在了。這是我試圖告訴你們的，但是你們想要別的東西，想知道關於你們未來的事情，但是你們的未來也隻是依托＂我是＂而存在的表象，象陽光因了太陽存在一樣。
這個＂我是＂是一種宣告，它不是真實的。這種＂我是＂的認知是真實衍生出來的。什麽是真實呢？我無法告訴你，事實上是因為真實是無法描述，無法解釋，它超越了表達。一切都在變動，每次我試圖解釋它，都被它否定：＂不是這個，不是這個。。。＂這是我的經驗，我沒有見到上帝，沒有見到任何其他的，我所告訴你的基於我自己的經曆，不是引用自任何人。
You may be a very great person, you might be a dictator of the world, but when you go to sleep you forget what you were---- your name, you body, you age, you sex, your nationality, everything. This sense of a separate identity is very limited and not the truth; in fact, it is totally false.
Or you may be a humble, virtuous person. Whenever you go to sleep, you forget sin, virtue; you forget yourself. What is the basic fact? It is that you forget yourself as an individual, which gives you deep rest.
When you go to sleep, you might have had sex with a hundred women or a hundred men. At that time you were enjoying it. But when you sleep, when you take rest, that sensory experience is not there. So when you don’t have an identity, no weight at that place. Don’t say you are so and so, you are an individual, you are a man or a woman. Just stay put; from there you can go to reality. And then whatever is manifested, will arise and subside. It is like sunrise and sunset, waxing and waning. That desultory manifestation you cannot be; it cannot be the real you.
Whenever there is a sense of individuality, personality, or a separations, you have so many wants. You want to see a movie, you want to hear music, you want to play, you want to have sex, you want to eat fancy foods, you want to consume intoxicant, but when that sense of seperateness is not there, when you are one with the totality, these things are not desired. And spirituality or what you call “religion” is mainly to understand this: that you don’t require anything, you are a part of the totality, or reality. When you grasp that, you don’t have any of these needs. But so long as you are separated from things, you need everything.
To exist as a separate individual constitutes the entire problem. And all these things, the various sense caterings, all reading, search for knowledge, for pleasure, everything is related to that. Once all that subsides, there is no more problem. Then the bliss you experience is true bliss. The foregoing, however, is not a ban on activities. Do whatever you want, but never forget the reality, never forget what you really are. You are not your body, you are not the food, you are not the vital air. Whatever has appeared is a state, and as such it has to go.
Most of you are not going to understand what is being said here, because you are taking yourself to be the body. Whatever knowledge I am conveying is not directed to the body—with you as bodily entities, as different persons.
So long as you are firmly convinced that you are the body, whatever I am telling is not going to be any use to you. Because whatever knowledge we take, we take it as body-mind, since it adds to our existing store of information. We then feel we have become more knowledgeable.
For example, tomorrow some astrologer or palmist may want to come and tell me: I would like to tell your future. How can he tell my future, when I am not there at all? You would be happy when told, OK, you will be President of the United State. But with me that is not the case.
Whenever behavior exists in this world, it is because of attribute, tendencies. For example, a person goes through four marriages and divorces in a month. Now that behavior stems from tendencies, qualities. But that which witnesses this behavior is beyond attributes. When that witness gone, all other things have disappeared, too. By the same taken, upon the arising of “I am,” the whole of manifestation takes place; these two are not separate, they are one. “I am” is the witness; the entire manifest world is there because of this.
What which is doing all this are the tendencies or attributes, or maya. Just like the sun and its rays; if the sun is not there, the rays are absent. Similiarly, if the witness is not there, the manifestation or maya is not present. When “ I am” arises, everything appears when “I am” subsides, everything subsides. Now this is what I am trying to tell you, but you want something else. You want something about your future, something which is part of manifestation, but I am trying to hit at it.
This “I am” is an announcement; it is not the real. It has come out of something else. What the real is, I am not telling you, it not the truth, because it has come out of that “I am”. The fact is, I cannot describe reality to you. I cannot explain it, because it beyond expression. So from that, everything flows; but every time I say something, I am aware that it is to be negated, “not this, not this”….. that is my experience. And further, I have not seen God, have not seen anything else. But about my own experience, I am very sure, and that is what I am telling you about. I am not quoting anyone.
