薩古魯：死亡可以選擇嗎？

Death is considered a great mystery. Quacks, philosophers, doctors and poets have taken a “stab” at explaining it, but death has remained unknown and unknowable – a seemingly compulsory destination for everyone. Only a mystic, who consciously straddzles the line between life and death, can explain what it takes to transcend both, and give us a process as a first step towards this.

死亡被認為是非常神秘的。江湖郎中、哲學家、醫生和詩人都曾嚐試對其作出解釋，但死亡仍然是未知的，也是不可知的——它似乎隻是每個人不可避免的歸宿。隻有能有意識地跨界於生死之間的神秘主義者，才能解釋如何超越生與死，並為我們呈獻方法，作為實現超越的第一步。

 

Sadhguru: You need to understand this: everything that you can experience is life. What you call as death also is life. So, are there choices about death? There are definitely. What you are referring to as death is just the last moment of life. That final moment when you transcend the limitations of your physical body happens only once in your lifetime. Almost everything in your life may happen many times over. But this one thing happens only once in your lifetime and it’s the last thing that you do. I want you to understand death as life, not something else. This is the last act of your life. Is it not very important that you choose to make it happen gracefully and wonderfully? If you are fearful of it, if you are ignorant of the ways of life and you create resistance towards it, naturally you will miss that possibility.

薩古魯：你需要明白這一點：你能體驗到的一切都是生命。你所謂的死亡也是生命。因此，死亡可以選擇嗎？當然可以選擇。你所說的死亡隻是生命的最後一刻。你超越物質身局限的那一刻，也就是你生命的最後時刻，一生隻會發生一次。你生命中幾乎所有事情都可能重複發生多次。但是，死亡在你一生中隻發生一次，並且，這是你經曆的最後一件事情。我希望你們把死亡理解為生命，而不是別的。這是你生命中最後的行為。所以重要的是，你要選擇讓它優雅而美好地發生。如果你害怕死亡，如果你無視生命之道，並對死亡形成抗拒，自然，你就會錯失那可能性。

 

People on the spiritual path choose the time, date and place of their death. The yogi always wants to know the time and date of death ahead of time. He fixes it. Many years ahead he says, “On this date, at this time I will leave,” and he leaves, because he has created the necessary awareness within himself to leave consciously. Leaving this body consciously without damaging this body, like you take off your clothes and walk away, you take off your body and walk away, if you can do that, that is the ultimate possibility in your life. If your awareness has grown to such a point that you know where you as a being and this physical body which you gathered are connected, then you can disentangle yourself whenever the moment is right for you.

靈性道路上的人會選擇死亡的時間、日期和地點。瑜伽士總想提前知道他們死亡的時間和日期。他會將它設定好。死前很多年，他會說，“在這一天，這個時間，我會離開。”他就會這麽做，因為，他的內在已經產生了必要的覺知，能夠有意識地離去。有意識地離開這個身體，但卻不對這個身體造成傷害，就像你脫下衣服之後走開一樣，你蛻去你的軀體，然後離開。如果你能做到這一點，那麽，這就是你生命的終極可能。如果你的覺知已經到達了這樣一個程度，以至於你知道你的存在核心與你所累積的這個物質身的連接點在哪裏，那麽，你就能夠在任何合適的時機，讓自己解開這個牽絆。

 

Is this suicide? Definitely not. Suicide happens out of frustration, out of anger, out of fear, out of inability to bear with suffering. This is neither suicide nor euthanasia. This is about being so aware that you know when life has completed its cycle, and you walk out of it. And this is not death either. This is known assamadhi, where a human being has developed sufficient awareness within himself to separate himself from the physicality that he has gathered. In that level of awareness, one can leave. If you do not attain such a level of awareness, at least you can make that last moment very graceful, pleasant, joyful and blissful for yourself if you manage certain things.

這是自殺嗎？這絕對不是自殺。人們會因為沮喪、憤怒、恐懼或無法承受痛苦而自殺。這既不是自殺，也不是安樂死。這是一種覺知，你清楚地知道什麽時候是你這一世輪回的終點，所以你就走出這個輪回。這也不是死亡。這被稱作Samadhi（三摩地），在這個狀態中，一個人內在已經具備了足夠的覺知，能夠將他自己與他所積累的軀殼分別開來。在這種覺知中，一個人可以選擇離開。如果你還沒達到這種覺知層次，通過做一些事，至少你可以把這個最後的時刻變得非常優雅、愉悅、快樂和喜悅。

 

If you want to exercise this choice, a certain amount of preparation is needed. You cannot waste life and try to make use of death. If you maintain a certain level of awareness right through your life, the moment of passing also can happen in awareness. You live a life of unawareness and you expect that moment to be aware, such things don’t happen to people.

如果你想要行使這個選擇，就需要進行一定量的準備工作。你不能一輩子都浪費生命，然後想在最後時刻利用死亡。如果你一生都保持一定層次的覺知，跨越的那一瞬間就能夠有覺知地發生。你的一生都過得毫無覺知，而你卻想讓那個瞬間變得有覺知，這種事是不會發生的。

 

Just practice this tonight, the last moment of passing – I call it passing because you are passing off from wakefulness to sleep that last moment – maintain your awareness and see. It will change your life phenomenally. Just use this as a method every day. Go at it with total perseverance. You will see in a few days, you will get there where the final moment, you are aware. Suddenly, everything about your life, the fundamental quality of your life will change just by doing this one simple thing. If you manage to move from wakefulness to sleep in awareness, this last moment of passing from life to death will happen absolutely gracefully for you. There are other methods also.

今晚，隻要像這樣練習：跨越的最後一個瞬間——我稱之為跨越，是因為，這是你從清醒跨向沉睡的最後瞬間——保持你的覺知，試試看。這會給你的生命帶來非凡的轉變。每天都這麽去做。帶著全然的決心堅持這麽做。你會看到過不了幾天，你可以做到在跨向沉睡的最後瞬間保持覺知。突然，你生命的一切，你生命的根本品質將會改變，僅僅因為做了這麽一件簡單的事情。如果你能夠在覺知中從清醒轉入沉睡，你從生命跨向死亡的最後一瞬間，就會發生得非常優雅。當然，也有其他的方法。

 

In India, traditionally people choose not to die with their loved ones, because if you die among your family, so many emotions will come. Naturally you will try to cling to life. You will not allow it to happen gracefully. So people travel to faraway places which are considered spiritually vibrant and they want to shed their body in that space. Even today, people still do this. This may be completely unthinkable in the West because people there want to die in the comfort of their family. That is not a wise thing. It is truly wise for a person to choose a space which is spiritually conducive, which is vibrant in a certain way and to leave with as much grace as possible. If you have lived your life with grace, it becomes extremely important that you die with grace.

在印度，人們傳統上不會選擇在他們摯愛的人身邊離開，因為，如果你離開的時候有家人圍繞，將會產生很多情感。你自然就會對生命戀戀不舍。你就無法讓死亡優雅地發生。因此，人們會遠行到他們認為靈性能量活躍的地方，在那些地方拋開他們的軀體。時至今日，還是有人這麽做。這在西方可能看起來不可思議，因為，他們會希望在家人的安慰中死去。這不是明智的做法。真正明智的做法是選擇在一個能量活躍的、有益的靈性空間，盡可能優雅地離開。如果你已經優雅地過完了一生，那麽，優雅的離開也是極為重要的。

Love&Grace,

Sadhguru

 

愛與恩典

薩古魯