克里希納在博伽梵歌裡說道：「當一個瑜珈行者睡著的時候，每個人都是清醒的；當每個人都在睡覺的時候，瑜珈行者則是清醒的。」這是什麼意思呢？這只是在說，當每個人都感到興奮及煩憂的時候，瑜珈行者睡得安安穩穩地。瑜珈行者知道每一件事情的發生，都是為了最好的；一切的發生都是為了眾生的利益。瑜珈行者有這樣的信心。「當其他的每個人都睡著的時候，那時瑜珈行者則是清醒的。」這意指—瑜珈行者知道生命的真理。
沒人會納悶，想知道，「我生命的結局會是怎樣？我會到哪兒去？生命是什麼？我是誰？」假如這類的問題不曾浮現在人們的心裡，那他們就是睡著了。人們迷失在看電影、玩電動遊戲裡。有人甚至到了很老了還開始玩電動遊戲，人們就是看不到死亡正在步步逼近。他不會去想，「我是怎麼把我內在塞滿這麼多的渴望和厭惡的啊？而清潔及洗刷我內在，我卻什麼也沒做。」如果你不清除存在內心的印象，那在死後，你就必須帶著這相同的心智及印象，一直跟隨著你。
所以當你死亡時，你的內心必須是快樂及充滿喜悅的。一個睡覺的人就是心智帶著所有的垃圾的人。瑜珈行者是個機敏且清醒的人，他不會把別人的垃圾堆放在自己的心裡，「為什麼這個人對我說這個，或為什麼那位女士對我說那個？」
在老是想著別人的不完美時，你的心智就被完全地破壞了。別人的不完美就交給他們自己，讓他們自己去處理吧。你處理自己的不完美就夠了。你是不是有耐心去接受別人的錯誤呢？你必須接受別人的錯誤。如果你是慈悲的，盡你所能地去糾正他們，那它就不會陷進你的腦子裡，你的心裡。否則，就把它交給大自然，它自會找到出路。
你什麼時候會感到生氣或憤怒？—當你把某人的行為看成是不完美的時候。你這樣能去糾正某個人的行為嗎？他的行為是不完美的，但是現在你想著這件事，其實你的心也變得不完美了。至少要保護好自己的心。別人走了錯路，你為什麼也要把自己的心擺在錯誤上呢？對吧？這就是為什麼他（克里希納）說，「當其他人睡著的時候，瑜加行者是警醒的。」當你睡著了，你就會讓別人的垃圾進到你的心裡，但瑜加行者不會讓這個發生，他們常保自己心智的清新。
當你的心智綻放時，知識的新的層面將在你內在綻放。知識是在意識中被建構而成的。
心會往哪兒去呢？它走向美、光明、力量…之處。上主克里希那說：「不論你的心走往哪裡，在那裡面看到我。」假如有個東西是美麗的，那是因為生命在它裡面。它是相同的意識。所以心智要回歸本源。上主克里希那說：「我是太陽中的光；我是水中的液體；我是地球上的氣味；我是火中之火。」
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我們和構成太陽的物質是一樣的。如果沒有太陽，就沒有地球；沒有地球，那你也就不存在了。如果你問量子物理學家，他也會這樣說：「一切都是由一種波函數所構成。」
上主克里希那也說著相同的事，「我就是那在每個人內在的生命。」把你的心轉向內在，去仔細地觀看這生命能量，那你就是的東西。「我就是生命。」生命就是神。神不存在於生命之外。生命是神聖的。
在這個身體裡的生命是神聖的。心智在渴求著什麼呢？渴求著這種享樂或那種享樂。就是現在，去仔細注意並照顧生命。不僅我的生命是神，每個生命都是相同的本我。
（全文完）（取自古儒吉著《Know Your Mind》pp.74-75）
<莊學琴老師翻譯>
Lord Krishna says in Gita, “When a yogi sleeps, everybody is awake. When everyone is sleeping, a yogi is awake.” What does it mean? It simply means, when everyone is excited and worried, the yogi sleeps comfortably. The yogi knows that everything will happen for the best and all happenings will be for the general good. A yogi has this confidence. “When everyone else is sleeping, then yogi is awake.” means- the yogi is aware about the truth of life.
Nobody wonders, “What is going to my end? Where will I go? What is life? Who am I?” If these questions do not arise in people’s mind, then they are asleep. People are lost in watching movies and
playing video games. People start playing video games even at very old age. Man isn’t seeing that eath is approaching. He does not think, “How I have filled my mind with so many cravings and aversions? I have done nothing to wash and cleanse my mind. ” If you don’t clean impressions on the mind, then you have to carry the same mind and impressions with you after death.
So when you die, your mind should be happy and joyful. One, who is sleeping, is carrying all the
garbage in his mind. The yogi is alert and awake. He does not take any garbage from anybody in his mind; “Why this man say this to me or that lady said that to me? ”
Your mind is completely destroyed thinking about others’ imperfections. Leave others’ imperfections to them only, let them handle. You handle your mind; you handle your imperfections and that is good enough. Do you have the patience to accept others’ mistakes? You have to accept others’ mistakes. If you are so compassionate, correct them as much as you can, then it doesn’t get into your head, your mind. Otherwise leave it to the nature, it will find its own way.
When do you get angry or upset- when you see someone else’s action as imperfect. Can you correct somebody’s action like this? His action is imperfect but now thinking about it, your mind becomes imperfect. You save your mind at least. Others have gone on the wrong path, why should you let your mind also dwell on the wrong? Right? That is why He (Krishna) says,” The yogi is awake when others are sleeping.” When you are sleeping, you let others’ garbage enter into your mind. But yogi don’t let this happen, they keep their mind fresh.
As your mind blossoms, new aspects of knowledge will blossom in you. Knowledge is structured in the consciousness.
Where does the mind go? It goes towards beauty, light, strength…
Lord Krishna says, ”Wherever your mind goes, see Me in that.” If something is beautiful, it is because it has life in it. It is the same consciousness. So, the mind goes back to the source. Lord Krishna says, “The light in the sun is Me; I am the liquid in the water; I am the smell in the Earth; I am the fire in the fire.”
We are made up of the same substance as the Sun. If there is no sun then there is no Earth and if there is no earth then there will be no you too. If you talk to quantum physicist, he will say the same thing:
"Everything is made up of one wave function."
The same thing Lord Krishna said, “ I am the life in everybody.” Turn your mind inwards and look at the life force that you are. “In life, it is Me.” Life is God. God is not something outside life. Life is Divine.
Life in this body is Divine. What is the mind craving for? For this pleasure or that pleasure. Right now, attend to life. Not that only my life is God, life everywhere is the same Atma.
