【尤迦南达Yogananda】当这个“我”死后，那时我才会知道我是谁。Then shall I know who am I.

这个‘我’死后

“ 当这个‘我’死后，”上师有次说，“那时我才会知道我是谁。你们必须忘记自己以及任何你对自己的重要性的担忧。永远告诉自己，‘你，神啊，只有你!’通过你在做梦的是神。他是唯一的实相。”

“如果你去看医生，他为你开了一张处方，你回家后却把它撕毁扔掉，你怎么会康复呢？古鲁是你的灵性‘医生’。仅仅拥有一位古鲁是不够的：你必须按照他说的去做。哪怕你只遵照他的处方一点点，你的人生也会彻底转变。每一个实践他在这里所学的人，都会通过死亡的门户进入璀璨光明的国度。”

——摘自《与尤迦南达的对话》

“工作才刚刚开始”

上师对我说：“记住，在你抵达涅比卡帕三摩地（无种子三摩地）前，你无法完全地自由，”完全摆脱我执，完全摆脱幻象，但他又说：“之后你的工作才真正开始。”

事实上罗摩克里希那的一个弟子说：“我曾以为一旦证得涅比卡帕三摩地（无种子三摩地），工作就结束了。”他却说：“工作才刚刚开始！”呵呵，不是开玩笑吧？

——摘自演讲《在尤迦南达身边的岁月》- 克利亚南达尊者 - 2009.9.29

通常是在高层星光界 (higher astral worlds) 取得——最终解脱

“甚至在圣人中，也极少有人，”上师有一次告诉我，“到达了最终的解脱。”

我惊愕地说，“《一个瑜伽行者的自传》中所有那些圣人呢？他们全都死掉走了，没有人接替他们的位置吗?”

(在《一个瑜伽行者的自传》中，帕拉玛罕撒·尤迦南达清楚表明，最终的解脱通常是在高层星光界(higher astral worlds)取得的，而不是这个物质层面。 不过当时对我而言，那个目标显得遥不可及。)

“即便在那些圣人中，”他回答道，“也极少有完全解脱的。”

我说出了书里面提到的几个圣人。每一次，他的回答都是，“没有。”最后他说，“只有巴巴吉，拉希里·玛哈夏，圣尤蒂斯瓦尔，和拉希里·玛哈夏的两个弟子：普拉纳巴南达尊者(《一个瑜伽行者的自传》中提到的“分身的圣人”) 和拉姆·高帕(“不眠的圣人”)。”在我们的这次对话里他没有提自己。但是在其他的时候，他告诉过我们他在进入这具身体前就已经完全解脱了。

——摘自《与尤迦南达的对话》

“我的工作即在帮助那些准备进入起因界的星灵界人”

“永生的古鲁，再多告诉我一些!”

上师开心地笑了几声。“我亲爱的孩子，”他说道，“你不能轻一点抱我吗?”

“只能一点点!”我像八爪鱼般紧紧抱住他，我可以闻到跟他从前身体一样天生特有的淡雅芳香。每当我回想这个曼妙时刻，手臂内侧及手掌心与他神圣肉体接触时的兴奋犹存。

“就像先知降世帮助人们消解身业，同样地，上帝派我在星灵界的一个星球上担任救主，”圣育克铁斯华解释。“该星球名为‘喜兰亚洛加’(Hiranyalo ka)，意为‘明亮的星灵星球’，我在那儿协助先进的星灵界人去除其星灵界的业，使其从星灵界轮回中解脱。喜兰亚洛加的居民皆已在灵性上高度发展，全都在其最后转世人身期间，在死亡时刻经由静坐获得自觉离开肉身的能力。在世间尚未超越‘有种子三摩地’而达到更高的‘非细考三摩地’境界者 ¹ ，无法进入喜兰亚洛加。

“喜兰亚洛加的居民已经经历了一般星灵界域——那是几乎所有世间生命死亡时必须前往之处。他们在该处消灭许多自身在星灵界所造过去业的种子，只有层次高的信徒能有效地在星灵界域进行如此赎偿工作 ² 。 然后，为了不让灵魂拥有一丝星灵界的业，这些精进的灵受宇宙法则牵引而在如同星灵太阳或天堂般的喜兰亚洛加以新的星灵体重生，我目前就在那儿协助他们。在喜兰亚洛加，也有近乎完美的灵来自较高层次的起因界。

此刻我与古鲁心灵完全相通，这些文字表达的景象，他部份藉由言语，部份 透过思想传递给我，我很快就收到他心念的摘 要 。

“ 你在经典中读过，”上师接着说，“上帝将人类灵魂依次围绕在三个界体内:首先为意念或起因体;其次为微妙的星灵体，即 人的心灵及情感本性所在之 处;最后是浊重的物质界体。地球上的人具有肉体感官;星灵界的人则运用意识、 感受及以生命粒子 ³ 构成的形体;仅具有起因体的灵则停留在意念的极乐境地， 我的工作即在帮助那些准备进入起因界的星灵界人。”

1. 在梵文中，bikalpa意为“差异、非同”。有种子三摩地(sabikalpa samadhi)是一种“具差异性”的入定境界，而非细考三摩地(nirbikalpa samad hi)是一种“不具差异性”的入定境界。意即，在有种子三摩地的境界中，信徒仍存有一丝与上帝分离的觉受;但在非细考三摩地的境界中，他已充份证悟与圣灵一体。

   进入“有种子三摩地”的信徒已得证与圣灵合一的境界，但他们只有在身体不动的入定状态才能维持其宇宙意识。借由持续静坐可进入更高层的“非细考三摩地”，此时信徒能在世间随意行动仍丝毫不失觉受上帝的意识。

   瑜伽行者在“非细考三摩地”境界中化解他最后残存的物质或尘世间的业，但是他可能仍有某些星灵界及起因界的业要清除，因此会在具有高度振动波的界域先化身星灵体再进入起因体。

2. 因为大多数人享受星灵界的美而不觉得有必要在灵性上努力。

3. 圣育克铁斯华使用“生命力”(prana)这个词，我译为“生命粒子”(lifetrons)。印度经典不仅谈及“原子”(anu)和“超出原子”(paramanu) 的更细微电子能量，也提到“具创造性的生命粒子力”(prana)。原子和电子是盲目的力，但生命粒子具有天赋智能。比如说，在精子及卵子中:具生命力的生命粒子根据个人业力的设计而引导胚胎的发育。

——摘自《一个瑜伽行者的自传》 第四十三章 圣育克铁斯华复活

When this ‘I’ shall die

“When this ‘I’ shall die,” the Master once said, “then shall I know who am I. You must forget yourselves and any worries you have about your own importance. Tell yourselves always, ‘Thou, Lord, only Thou!’ God is dreaming through you. He is the sole reality.”

——from Conversations with Yogananda

It’s only just begun

Master said to me once, ”Remember you won’t be completely free, until you have attained nirbikalpa Samadhi.” Complete freedom from the ego, complete freedom from delusion, but then he said,”Then the real work begins.”

In fact one disciple of  Ramakrishna said, ”I used to think that once you've attained nirbikalpa Samadhi, the work is finished.” He said, “It’s only just begun." Hehe, it’s no joke?

——My Life with Paramhansa Yogananda - Swami Kriyananda - Sep 29 2009

That final liberation is usually attained from higher astral worlds

“Very few saints, even,” the Master once told me,“have attained final liberation.”

I exclaimed in dismay, “What about all those saints in the Autobiography ? Are all of them dead and gone, with no one to take their place?”

(In Autobiography of a Yogi , Paramhansa Yogananda makes it clear that final liberation is usually attained from higher astral worlds, not from this material plane. It seemed to me at the time, however, that that goal must be virtually impossible of attainment.)

“Very few even of those saints,” he replied, “were fully liberated.”

I named a few of them specifically from his book. In each case, his reply was, “No.” At last he said, “Only Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswarji, and two of Lahiri Mahasaya’s disciples: Swami Pranabananda [the “Saint with Two Bodies” as he is described in the Auto- biography] and Ram Gopal Muzumdar [the “Sleepless Saint”].” On the occasion I quote here he didn’t name himself. At other times, however, he told us he had come into this body fully liberated.

——from Conversations with Yogananda

I am aiding advanced beings to rid themselves of astral karma andthus attain liberation from astral rebirths

“ Deathless guru, tell me more! ”

Master gave a quick, mirthfulchuckle. “ Please, dear one, ” he said, “ won ’ t you relax your hold a little? ”

“ Only a little! ” I had been embracing him with an octopus grip. I could detect the samefaint, fragrant, natural odor that had been characteristic of his body before.The thrilling touch of his divine flesh still persists around the inner sidesof my arms and in my palms whenever I recall those glorious hours.

“ As prophets are sent on earthto help men work out their physical karma, so I have been directed by God toserve on an astral planet as a savior, ” Sri Yukteswar explained. “ It is called Hiranyaloka or ‘ Illumined Astral Planet. ’ There I am aiding advanced beings to rid themselves of astral karma andthus attain liberation from astral rebirths. The dwellers on Hiranyaloka arehighly developed spiritually; all of them had acquired, in their lastearth-incarnation, the meditation-given power of consciously leaving theirphysical bodies at death. No one can enter Hiranyaloka unless he has passed onearth beyond the state of sabikalpasamadhi into the higher state of nirbikalpasamad hi . ¹

“ Hiranyaloka inhabitants havealready passed through the ordinary astral spheres, where nearly all beingsfrom earth must go at death; there they destroyed many seeds of karma connectedwith their past actions in the astral worlds. None but advanced beings canperform such redemptive work effectively in the astral spheres. ² Then, in order to free their souls fully from all traces of astral karma, theseaspirants were drawn by cosmic law to be reborn with new astral bodies onHiranyaloka, the astral sun or heaven, where I am present to help them. Thereare also nearly perfect being on Hiranyaloka who have come from the superior causalworld. ”

My mind was now in such perfectattunement with my guru ’ s that he was conveying hisword-pictures to me partly by speech and partly by thought-transference. I wasthus quickly receiving his idea-tabloids.

“ You have read in thescriptures, ” Master went on, “ that God encased the human soul successively in three bodies — the idea, or causal, body; the subtle astral body, seat of man ’ s mental and emotional natures; and the gross physical body. On earth aman is equipped with his physical senses. An astral being works with hisconsciousness and feelings and a body made of lifetrons. ³ A causal-bodied being remainsin the blissful realm of ideas. My work is with those astral beings who are preparingto enter the causal world. ”

1. The sanskrit word bikalpa means "difference, nonidentity." Sabikalpa is the state of samadhi "with difference," nirbikalpa is the state "without difference." That is, in sabikalpa samadhi the devotee still retains a slight feeling of separateness from God; in nirbikalpa samadhi he realizes fully his identity as Spirit.

   In sabikalpa samadhi the devotee has attained realization of hisoneness with Spirit but cannot maintain his cosmic consciousness except in the immobile trance state. By continuous meditation, he reaches thesuperior state of nirbikalpa samadhi, in which he may move freely in theworld and performs his outward duties without any loss of God-perception.

   In nirbikalpa samadhi the yogi dissolve the last vestiges of hismaterial or earthly karma. Nevertheless, he may still have certain astral andcausal karma to work out, and therefor take astral and then causalreembodiments on high-vibrational spheres.

2. Because most persons, enjoying thebeauty of the astral worlds, do not see any neccessity for strenuous spiritual effort.

3. Sri Yukteswarused the word prana ; I have translated it as lifetrons. The Hinduscriptures refer not only to the anu, “atom,” and to the paramanu, “beyond the atom,” finer electronic energies; but also to prana, “creative lifetronic force.” Atoms and electrons are blind forces; prana is inherently intelligent. The pranic lifetrons in the spermatozoa and ova, forinstance, guide the developent of the embryo according to a karmic design.

——from Autobiography of a yogi - Chapter 43 - The resurrction of Sri Yukteswar