Sadhguru looks at how it is possible to create the right kind of chemistry and become loving, or to become loving and create the resultant chemistry.
萨古鲁阐述了如何可以在人体内产生特定的化学反应并由此让人变得更有爱,反过来,变得有爱也可以在人体内生成相应的化学反应。
Sadhguru: Every emotion that you go through has a certain chemistry behind it. Whether you become joyous or sad, tense or calm, your chemistry is happening in different ways. It works in both directions an emotion can change your chemistry, and changing your chemistry can change your emotion. For different states of experience that we go through, our chemistry naturally goes through certain changes. Or, because our chemistry is going through changes, we go through different levels of experience. For example, if you get excited, your blood will move faster and your heart will pump faster. But if your heart starts pumping faster, you will also get excited unecessarily. Both are ture.
萨古鲁:你所经历的每种情感背后都有某种化学成分在起作用。无论快乐或悲伤、紧张或平静,都是因为体内化学反应的方式不同。影响是双向的——情绪会改变你体
内的化学组成、而化学组成的改变反过来会影响你的情绪。我们经历不同体验和状态时,我们体内的化学组成自然也会随之变化。同样,正是由于我们体内化学组成
发生变化,我们的体验和状态也会改变。例如,如果你变得兴奋,你的血液会加速流动,你的心跳也会加速。反过来,如果你的心脏越跳越快,你必然也会越来越激
动。两者都没错。
Hallucinatory drugs have been produced on this very basis, Treatment for psychiatric problems also works this way. When someone is very agitated, they give him a drug--a tranquilizer--and he becomes calm. These drugs somehow bring down the tension chemically. Any drug-taking is manipulation on the level of your chemistry. Whatever the experience is, there is a supporting chemistry, Whatever is the chemistry, for that there is a resultant experience.
正是基于以上原理,致幻药才被生产出来。精神类疾病的治疗也同样遵循这个原理。当一个人极度狂躁不安,人们会给他注射一种药物——镇定剂——让他慢慢平静下
来。这些药物通过化学方法来减少紧张情绪。任何药物的摄取都是对你体内化学组成的一种操控。无论你处于何种体验和状态,其背后总是有某种化学组成在起支持
作用。无论是什么样的化学组成,其必然会导致某种体验的产生。
Can We Create Love Chemically?
可以通过化学方法创造爱的情感吗?
Can we create love chemically? Suppose if I change my chemistry, can I become love? Yes, that is what we do in yoga in terms of sadhana or practices. The difference between bhakti yoga and whatever other forms of yoga--expecially hatha yoga and kriya yoga is just this: with kriya yoga and hatha yoga, you are trying to change your inner energies in order to change the chemistry, so thar your inner quality or your experience will change. With bhakti yoga, you are trying to change the quality by being loving, so that someday your chemistry becomes love.
我们可以通过化学方法创造爱的情感吗?假如我改变了自身的化学组成,我可以变成爱吗?是的,这就是我们做瑜伽--灵性修习(sadhana) 的目的。奉爱瑜伽(bhakti yoga)跟其他形式的瑜伽,特别是哈他瑜伽和克里亚(Kriya)瑜伽相比有一个不同点:通过练习克里亚瑜伽和哈他瑜伽,你试着改变内在能量从而改变自身化学组成,这样一来,你的内在品质或体验将会发生变化;练习奉爱瑜伽时,你试图通过产生爱的情感来改变内在品质,如此一来,有一天你自身的化学组成就会变成爱。
Without a proper chemistry, any amount of trying to become something will not lead you anywhere, No matter how much you say," I want to be peaceful, I want to be peaceful," if you chemistry is agitation, no matter how much you try, you will not settle down into peace. It is impossible. With pranayam, asanas and meditation we are changing the chemistry. This must be understood that with meditation, we are not trying to become peaceful. We are changing the chemistry into that kind of chemistry where peace will be the natural way of being.
如果体内没有形成适当的化学组成,你为了变得更好而作出的任何努力,都将是徒劳无功的。不管你说多次“我要平静下来,我要平静下来”,如果你体内的化学组成是焦躁不安的,那么你再怎么努力,都不可能平静下来,这是不可能的事情。通过瑜伽呼吸控制法(pranayam)、瑜伽体式(asanas)和冥想,我们是在改变自身化学组成。你需要理解,我们做冥想并不是为了使自己平静下来,我们是在改变体内的化学组成,形成一种使平和能自然发生的化学组成。
What it means is , if with proper practices you change your chemistry into peace-a kind of chemistry that will make a person joyous-hen your natural state will become like that. Another way to do this is , by creating an object of love, maybe a God, a Guru or some other object for which you have tremendous feeling, if you create tremendous amount of love towards that, then also your chemistry will change. Both ways are ture.
这就意味着,如果通过适当的练习,使体内的化学组成变成平和——一种会让人心生喜悦的化学组成——那么你的自然状态就会是平和喜悦的。还有另外一种方法,那就是创造一个爱的对象,可以是上帝、上师或任何其他让你满怀爱意的对象,如果你对它产生浓浓的爱意,你的化学组成也会改变。两种方法都可行。
Love: Not Just A Tool of Reproduction
爱:不仅仅是繁衍的工具
When biologists talk about love and chemistry, it is totally different. If you look at all activities in nature, everything is aimed only at reproduction--nothing else. Flowers are not blooming out of their love for you. You may think so and poets may say so, but they are simply blooming so that pollination can happen, then a seed will come and one more plant will grow. That is their only interest.
生物学家所谈论的爱和化学,完全是另外一回事。如果你观察自然界的所有活动,你会发现一切都只为了一个目的——繁殖,除此之外,再无其他。鲜花的绽放不是因为它对你怀有爱意(可能你会这么想、可能诗人会这么说),它们盛开仅仅是为了授粉,这样才能孕育种子,有一株新的植物将得以生长。这是它们唯一的兴趣所在。
When the biologist talks about love, he is actually talking about reproduction. This is just a trick of nature to keep things going. Nature wants to perpetuate itself. That is what is know ad maya. It has its own inbuilt systems to perpetuate itself. Nobody has to do anything. It does not even need the Creator's interference; that is the beauty of creation. Even the creator is not needed; everything is automatic. That is the nature of maya. But what we are referring to when we use the word"love"is, once you really experience love within you, your biology and the body becomes very minimum. If your biolgy is too active then love has not happened to you. When bhakti enters a person, his body becomes of least importance to him. He is willing to throw it and go; he is in that state. This love is not one that binds you into the process of maya, it liberates you from it.
生物学家谈论爱的时候,他实际上说的是繁衍。这恰恰是大自然为了让万物运转而使的伎俩。大自然想要永生不灭,就是所谓的“玛雅(maya)”。大自然拥有与生俱来的、让自己永生不朽的系统,不需要任何人再做任何事情,它甚至不需要造物主的干预,这就是造物之美;甚至连造物主都不需要,万物皆自生自长,这就是“玛雅(maya)”的本质。然而,当我们使用到“爱”这个词时,我们说的是,一旦你体验到内在的爱,你的生理、你的躯体都会变得微不足道。如果你的生物功能过于旺盛,那么爱还尚未发生于你。当奉爱(bhakti)进入你的身体,对你来说身体变得毫不重要,你愿意放下它,你会处于这样的一种状态。这种爱并不是使你束缚于“maya”这一过程的情感,它让你从“maya”中解脱出来。