Q: Gurudev, How do you feel to be coming here(Shimoga) after 21 years?
问：21年后再来这里，您感觉如何？
Sri Sri: I don’t feel like I ever left this place. I used to sit facing the river and now I’m facing you.
Sri Sri：我觉得我从未离开过这个地方。我以前向河而坐，如今面对着你们。
Q: What was your experience here(Shimoga) ?
问：您那时候在此有什么经验？
Sri Sri: You know when I came here 21 years back. I had already travelled around the world. I taught Yoga, Asanas, Meditation. But still I was concerned about how to make people live a happy life. After being in silence for 10 days,Knowledge of Sudarshan Kriya came to me. Nature knows what to give and when to give.
Sri Sri：你知道21年前我来此之前，我已经在全球旅行教瑜伽，体位法、静心。但我仍然再考虑怎么让人们快乐地生活。在10天的禁言之后，净化呼吸法(Sudarshan Kriya)的知识浮现于我。大自然知道应该给什么，什么时候给予。
When we started that time, the course used to begin early in the morning and would go till 10:30-11 PM. So some people would not turn up the next day. The rest would go and bring them back. I would keep silent and everybody would also keep silent. Then people started having beautiful experiences from the 2nd day. Our first course was here (Shimoga). 我们刚开始的时候，课程从清早开始一直到晚上10:00-11:00。然后有一些人第二天就不出现了，其他的人就去把他们带回来。我保持禁言，其他人也都禁言。从第二天开始大家开始有很美妙的经验。我们第一个课程就在这里。
Over a period of time I felt that this was a little too much for some people and so we split the course into Basic and Advance course.
过了一段时间，我感觉这对于一些人来说有点太多，因此我们把课程分成了初级课程和高级课程。
When I first came here 21 years back we were 70 of us here and now how many are we ?. ( there were thousands of people in the satsang ! )
当21年前我第一次来这里时我们有70个人，现在我们有多少？(唱场有数千人！)
Q: I know it is important for me to be here with you. But I have a little conflict as it takes me away from my family. Could you comment?
问：我知道在此和您在一起对我很重要。但我有点冲突，因为这把我带离了我的家庭。您可否说说？
Sri Sri: You know when you are here and when you go deep and get rid of all the stresses, you are also helping your family out there. The good vibration that you produce in your system doesn’t just stay with you. Don’t think that your silence course is only benefiting you. You are being in silence, you are meditating - some of it goes to your family members as well.
你知道当你在这里，深入内在卸下压力的时候，你也在帮助你的家庭。你在你系统里所生发的好的振波不光停留在你体内。不要认为你的静默课程只让你受益。你在禁言、静心，一部分也传到你的家庭成员。
You may have noticed, some times you sit for mediation and nothing happens to you. And most of the meditation you know, the benefits of those meditations are going to people who have crossed the other side. So when you have to clear your debts you find balance not going up. Because debt is being cleared. So many times it happens.
你或许注意到有时候你坐着静心什么也没有发生。你知道，绝大多数静心，静心的益处都去了那些已经去了另一边的人。因此，你不得不清理欠债，你发现结余没有增长。因为欠债在被清理。很多时候都是如此。
There is an old saying “when you meditate the effect of it reaches to seven generations of the past and seven generations of the future.” So the genes with which you are connected u know affects all those seven generations the past and the future. That is a very common saying in India. People know it.
有一个老的说法，当你静心时静心的影响波及过去的七代人和将来的七代人。你知道，连结你们的基因影响所有过去的七代和未来的七代。这在印度是一个很平常的说法。人们都知道。
So a portion of our meditation, merits of our meditation goes to our near and dear ones. So you don’t have to have a conflict. And when you are at home doing your job, don’t think it is not spiritual. It is also my job. If you are taking care of your family know that it is not just your family it is Gurudev's family also. So the whole world belongs to me and every body is a part of my family. So if you are taking care of your family you should know you are doing a seva, a work which is a part of AOL. And when you are here, you should know whatever you are doing you are also helping your kith and kin.Where is the conflict?
因此，你静心以及静心的好处其中一部分给了你最亲近的人。所以，你不需要有冲突。还有，你在家里做事情时，不要觉得那不是灵修。那也是我的事情。当你照顾家庭时候明白那不光是你的家庭，那也是古儒吉的家庭。因此，整个世界都属于我，每个人都是我的家庭的一员。因此，当你照顾自己家庭的时候，你应该明白你在做服务，一件生活的艺术的事情。当你在这里的时候，不论你做什么你都在帮助你的亲朋好友。哪里有冲突呢？
Jai Gurudev!
註：Simoca是古儒吉開悟之地，在十天的閉關之後開悟，創造了淨化呼吸法，20年後重回開悟之地，在這篇訪談中，他提到了靜坐的好處與重要。
第一組照片 的右邊是古儒吉的師父之一馬赫西（超覺靜坐）
