色彩節－聖者詩麗詩麗若威香卡
Holi by Sri Sri Ravishankar -
色彩節是一個慶祝色彩的節日，這整個世界是如此多彩多姿。
很自然地，我們的感覺和情緒與不同的顏色有關聯：憤怒與紅色有關、嫉妒與綠色有關，黃色與活力和幸福有關、粉紅色與愛有關、浩瀚與藍色有關、白色與和平靜有關，犧牲與番紅花色（橘黃色）、紫和知識有關。
每個人是一個不斷變化地色彩的噴泉。往世書裡皆是彩色插圖和故事，其中有一個是有關霍利Holi的故事。有位阿修羅王叫喜拉那拉亞 卡修帕 Hiranyakashyap他希望大家崇拜他。
但他的兒子普拉雷Prahlad是神-那拉亞那Narayana的虔信者，而那拉亞那Narayana是國王的死敵。發怒狂暴的國王，要他的妹妹惡魔霍利卡Holika，除掉普拉雷Prahlad。惡魔霍利卡有能力抗火，她坐在燃燒的柴堆將普拉雷Prahlad放在她的膝蓋上。結果，惡魔霍利卡Holika被燒死，普拉雷Prahlad安然無恙地出來。
喜拉那拉亞 卡修帕 Hiranyakashyap象徵著一個人是毛。 普拉雷Prahlad體現無罪、信⋯⋯心和至福。精神無法侷限於僅愛物質。喜拉那拉亞 卡修帕 Hiranyakashyap希望的喜悅都是來自物質世界。它不會這樣發生。
個體靈魂無法永遠被侷限在物質。最終都將自然地走向神.那拉亞那Narayana，一個更高的本我。
惡魔霍利卡象徵著過去的束縛想要試著燒掉普拉雷Prahlad的清白。但普拉雷Prahlad，深深植根於那拉亞那Narayana的虔誠之愛Bhakti裡，這可以燒掉過去的印象（sanskaras）。
一個深處於虔誠之愛Bhakti裡的人，喜樂如泉，湧出許多色彩，生命成為一場慶祝。燒掉過去，為一個新的開始作好準備。
你的情緒像火一般燃燒著你。但是，當情緒是如泉湧的色彩時，它們為你的生活增添魅力。
在無知的情況下，情緒是很煩人的事情；在知識中，同樣的情緒則會增添色彩。
有一個傳說是有關濕婆神Shiva處在三摩地靜心中，而他的太太帕爾瓦蒂Parvati,在苦修的時期。卡瑪締瓦神Kamadeva是愛之主，為了促進這兩位神性的結合，被濕婆神Shiva燒成灰燼。以致濕婆神不得不從三摩地靜心中出來與帕爾瓦蒂Parvati結合。`帕爾瓦Parva'是節，`帕爾瓦蒂Parvati'意味著'出生於節慶-慶祝！
對於三摩地，結合慶祝與慾望的存在是必要的。因此，慾望(卡瑪Kama)被呼請進來。不過，為了慶祝，你需要超越慾望。所以濕婆神Shiva睜開第三隻眼，燒毀了慾望(卡瑪)。當心中的慾被燒毀，慶祝發生，而生活變得多彩多姿。
如Holi色彩節一樣，生命應該是豐富多彩的，不枯燥。當每種顏色可以被清楚地看到，它是豐富多彩的。當所有的顏色都混在一起，你最終只有黑色。生活也是如此，我們在生活中扮演不同的角色，每個角色和情感需要得到明確的界定。情緒混亂便產生問題。當你是一個父親，你必須扮演父親的一部分。在辦公室，你不能成為一個父親。當你生活中的角色混合在一起時，你便開始犯錯。無論你在生活中扮演的角色是什麼，讓自己充分的扮演這角色。在多樣化中的和諧性，使生活充滿活力、喜悅和更加豐富多彩。
你生活中所經驗的喜悅是源你自本我的深處 - 當你放下所執著的一切時，在空間裡安定於核心，這稱為冥想靜心。冥想靜心不是一種行為，它是無作為的藝術！在冥想中的休息是比最深的睡眠還要更深，因為在靜心中，你超越了所有的慾望（無慾），這靜心的狀態使大腦無比的冷靜，就像在保養或整修我們整個複雜的身心。
⋯⋯ 只有這樣，我們才能夠理解存在的更高狀態，而能看到整個世界皆是精神心靈或意識。慶祝是心靈的本質，而靜默中出現的慶祝是真實的。如果神聖與慶祝結合，它變成完整的、圓滿的，它不只是身體和心，而是連靈魂都一起在慶祝。
在慶祝狀態中，心中常常忘了神的存在。
我們要經驗神的存在，神的光圍繞著我們。
你們應該有個慾望 - 一個想要經驗〝是什麼在運行世界〞的慾望。
要經驗這，必需透過祈禱，而那必需是全心投入的祈禱。如果頭腦被其他事所佔據，那就不是祈禱。
當你面臨的障礙，由心深處的祈禱會創造奇蹟。
祈禱應驗在這兩種情況下，或在綜合的情況下發生。
當你心存感恩，或當你感到完全地無助時。
如果你不感恩和也不虔誠，你將是淒慘的。
感到“我是受到祝福”的感覺，可以幫助你克服任何的障礙。
一旦你意識到你是受祝福的，那麼所有的抱怨、牢騷、及不安全感都將消失。
慶祝自然顯耀，生命變得豐富多彩。
Chinese translation 中文翻譯：黃韵媁Grace老師
By His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Holi is a festival of colours. This whole world is so colourful. Just like nature there are different colours associated with our feelings and emotions: anger with red, jealousy with green, vibrancy and happiness with yellow, love with pink, vastness with blue, peace with white, sacrifice with saffron and knowledge with violet. Each person is a fountain of colours which keep changing.
Puranas are full of colourful illustrations and stories and there is a story related to Holi. An asura king, Hiranyakashyap, wanted everyone to worship him. But his son Prahlad was a devotee of Lord Narayana, the king's sworn enemy. Angry, the king wanted Holika, his sister, to get rid of Prahlad. Empowered to withstand fire, Holika sat on a burning pyre holding Prahlad on her lap. But it was Holika who was burnt, Prahlad came out unharmed.
Hiranyakashyap symbolises one who is gross. Prahlad embodies innocence, faith and bliss. The spirit cannot be confined to love only matter. Hiranyakashyap wanted all joy to come from the material world. It did not happen that way. The individual jivatma cannot be bound to the material forever. It's natural to eventually move towards Narayana, one's higher Self.
Holika symbolises past burdens that try to burn Prahlad's innocence. But Prahlad, so deeply rooted in Narayana Bhakti, could burn all past impressions (sanskaras). For one who is deep in bhakti, joy springs up with new colours and life becomes a celebration. Burning the past, you gear up for a new beginning. Your emotions, like fire, burn you. But when they are a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colour.
One legend talks about the time when Parvati was in tapasya and Shiva was in samadhi. In facilitating the divine union of the two, Kamadeva, the Lord of Love, gets burnt to ashes by Shiva. Shiva had to come out of samadhi to join Parvati, `Parva’ is festival and `Parvati’ means `born out of festival’ - celebration! For samadhi to unite with celebration, the presence of desire was necessary. So, desire (Kama) was invoked. But again, to celebrate, you need to overcome desire. So Shiva opened his third eye and burned Kama. When desire in the mind is burnt, celebration happens and life becomes colourful.
Like Holi, life should be colourful, not boring. When each colour is seen clearly, it is colourful. When all the colours get mixed, you end up with black. So also in life, we play different roles. Each role and emotion needs to be clearly defined. Emotional confusion creates problems. When you are a father, you have to play the part of a father. You can't be a father at office. When you mix the roles in your life, you start making mistakes. Whatever role you play in life, give yourself fully to it. Harmony in diversity makes life vibrant , joyful and more colourful.
Part 2
The joy you experience in life is from the depth of your Self - when you let go all that you hold on to and settle down being centered in that space. That is called meditation. Meditation is not an act; it is the art of doing nothing! The rest in meditation is deeper than the deepest sleep that you can ever have because in meditation you transcend all desires. This brings such coolness to the brain and it is like servicing or overhauling the whole body-mind complex.
Only then we are able to understand the uplifted state of the being and see that the whole world is all spirit or consciousness. Celebration is the nature of the spirit and the celebration that comes out of silence is real. If sacredness is attached to a celebration, it becomes total, complete. It's not just body and mind but also the spirit that celebrates.
In a state of celebration, the mind often forgets the Divine. We should experience the Divine’s presence, the Divine’s light around us. You should have a desire to experience the something by which the whole world is running. To experience this through your prayers, there should be total involvement. If the mind is preoccupied elsewhere, then that is no prayer at all.
When you are faced with obstacles, deep prayers can work miracles. Prayer happens in two situations, or in a combination of situations. When you feel grateful or when you feel utterly helpless. If you are not grateful and prayerful, you will be miserable. The feeling that “I am blessed” can help you overcome any failure. Once you realise that you are blessed, then all the complaints disappear, all the grumbling disappears, all the insecurities disappear.
Celebration dawns spontaneously and life becomes colourful。更多— 在 Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
