如何更好地接收貝拉維的恩典

Linga Bhairavi is the most exuberant expression of the divine feminine, residing in a triangular-shaped abode at the Velliangiri foothills. Unique in her manifestation in the form of a linga, the eight-foot-tall Devi was consecrated by Sadhguru through prana pratishtha, as a powerful energy form. As we approach Navratri, the nine nights dedicated to the feminine, we look at a few answers from Sadhguru on how one can receive Devi’s grace and be most receptive to her.

靈伽貝拉維是神聖陰性能量的最旺盛表達，它坐落在維靈吉瑞山麓的一座三角形的殿堂裡。經由這獨特的靈伽形式顯現，8英尺（約2.4米）高的女神由薩古魯通過Prana Pratishtha儀式來聖化（譯者註：這是一種罕見的聖化方式——利用生命能量把純粹的石頭轉化為一個神祗），是一種非常強大的能量形式。隨著九夜節的臨近，我們來看看薩古魯對於我們如何能夠更好地接收來自貝拉維的恩典的一些解答。

Sadhguru: Indian culture has always represented the feminine as the most powerful dimension of life. You will even see calendar art where Kali is standing on Shiva’s chest, who is lying there dead. This is to show you that the masculine is lifeless unless it is invigorated by the feminine. “Shakti” means energy. That energy which makes the atom work is the same energy which makes the cosmos work. And this energy is always identified as feminine.

薩古魯：印度文化一直用陰性能量來代表生命最強大的能量維度。你甚至會看到那些掛曆藝術中，Kali女神會站在癱死在地的濕婆（Shiva）的胸膛上。這是來向你們顯示陽性能量如果沒有陰性能量的滋補，它將變得蒼白而沒有生機。 “Shakti" 的意思是能量。讓一個原子運作的能量和讓宇宙運作的能量是同一個能量。而這種能量總是呈現陰性。

Feminine worship is the most ancient form of worship on the planet. India, Europe, Arabia, and large parts of Africa were involved in goddess worship. But today, because of too much emphasis on the masculine worldwide, the only culture where feminine worship still flourishes is India.

陰性崇拜在這個星球上是最古老的一種崇拜方式。印度、歐洲、阿拉伯和非洲的大部分過去都涉及女神崇拜。但是今天，這個世界太強調陽性，目前只有在一種文化中，陰性崇拜任然久盛不衰，它就是印度文化。

The festival of Navratri is dedicated to the feminine nature of the Divine. Masculine and feminine are not about being physically male or female. These are two qualities. The feminine can be as alive in a man as it is in a woman. Only when these qualities happen in balance, can a human being live a life of fulfillment. To use an analogy, if you call the root the masculine, the flower and the fruit is feminine. The very purpose of the root is to bring the flower and the fruit. If that does not happen, the root will go waste. Survival by itself does not take care of everything. After survival is taken care of, the subtler aspects of life have to happen to you.

九夜節是為慶祝神聖的陰性本質。陽性和陰性不是指身體上是男性還是女性。這是兩種特質。一個男性的陰性能量也可能與女性一樣旺盛。只有當這兩個特質平衡時，一個人才可以活得圓滿。打一個比方，如果你把植物的根當作陽性， 那麼花和果實就是陰性的。根的存在是為了產出花和果實。如果沒有花和果實，那根就浪費了。生存本身並不涉及生命的所有層面。在生存問題解決了以後，生命的一些更精微的層面必須在你身上發生。

I have been to many Devi temples – not just famous ones, but little ones in towns and villages. I have been absolutely amazed to find that sometimes even in villages, temples that were consecrated hundreds of years ago are still fully, forcefully alive. These are not dolls that you worship. They are live feminine forces of different calibers, intensities and qualities – from gentle to fierce. Whether you worship or not, there are many ways to make use of them to do various kinds of activities. It was humbling to see that in a tiny village, someone had consecrated something with a great amount of sophistication. These were nameless yogis. They didn’t think it necessary to leave their name on the temple. This energy they left is all there is. It is not in the nature of the feminine to leave a footprint but to imprint life within through a strong experience.This Navratri, make use of these spaces and their energy and celebrate the feminine. Only then you can know the beauty of life.

我去過很多女神廟，並不僅僅是有名的那些，還有鄉村里的小廟。令我驚奇的是，有些時候甚至在一些小村鎮裡，那些在千百年前被聖化過的寺廟仍然完全強大有力而充滿生機。她們可不是你們崇拜的那些人偶娃娃，而是那些活躍著的不同能力、強度和特性的陰性力量，從溫和到強烈。不管你是否崇拜它們，都有許多方式可以善用她們來做不同的事情。說來慚愧，我發現甚至在一個小村莊里，一些人已經用相當精微複雜的方式來聖化一些東西。這都是一些匿名的瑜伽士。他們沒有想要留下他們的名字。他們留下的只是能量。陰性本質即是如此：不留下足跡，卻將強烈的體驗銘刻於生命之內。這個九夜節，請利用這些聖化空間以及她們的能量，一起來慶祝陰性吧！只有這樣你才能體驗生命之美。

Question: When I went to Linga Bhairavi, I saw men and women were prostrating in a way I had not seen before. Generally in other places, men do a full prostration and women do a half prostration. Another question is, we were told that in a sacred place one should go in a clockwise direction. Here we move in an anticlockwise direction. I wanted to understand this.

問：當我去靈伽貝拉維女神廟時，我看到男士和女士以一種我沒有見過的姿勢跪拜。通常在其他地方，男士全身拜，而女士則是半身禮拜。還有一個問題是，通常在聖化空間裡，我們是從順時針的方向進入。在這裡（女神廟）我們是從逆時針的方向進入。為什麼？

Sadhguru: She is a woman, so the rules are different! The prostration is called Devi Dandam. You can receive the energy – which we are referring to as Bhairavi – best through your left side. When you do the Devi Dandam, the very posture is made such that you close your right side, so that your left side is much more open. It is just like if you close the right nostril, the left nostril will take in more breath – if not double, at least one-and-a-half or one-and-three-fourths of what it takes usually. Similarly, with the Devi Dandam, the left side opens up by closing the right side. It is designed so that you become receptive to Devi’s energy, because that is why you are there. You are not just doing something because someone has been doing it in the tradition.

薩古魯：她是女人，所以規則不同！這種禮拜叫做Devi Dandam。你可以通過你的左側來最好地接收這個被稱為Bhairavi（貝拉維）的能量。 Devi Dandam的設計使得你在跪拜的時候，右側是關閉的，這樣左側就打開更多。這就好比當你堵住右鼻孔，左鼻孔會吸入更多的空氣——如果不是加倍，至少是1.5或1.75倍。類似的，在Devi Dandam中，通過關閉右側可以讓左側更加打開。這種設計讓你更好地接收女神能量，而這就是你去那裡的目的。你這麼做可不是因為依循傳統中別人怎麼做而跟著做。

You don’t do that kind of dandam with Dhyanalinga. With him, you don’t even have to prostrate because with Dhyanalinga, devotion is important only as a way of making you receptive. He does not demand devotion, he needs attention and focus. Linga Bhairavi needs mad devotion, otherwise she will not yield. The way they are made is very different.

你在迪阿納靈伽（Dhyananlinga）裡不要做Devi Dandam這種禮拜。對於他，你甚至不需要禮拜——在這裡，奉愛的重要性只在於它讓你變得有接收性。他不需要奉愛（虔誠），他需要你的注意力和專注。靈伽貝拉維需要瘋狂的奉愛，否則她不會屈從。兩者運作的方式非常不同。

And you do not go around Devi. If you were going around her, we would have done it clockwise, not anticlockwise. You are only going in front of her, so it is best that you go from her left side, because she is like that. There is no harm in going from the right but it is more receptive to go from the left. That’s why there is a green sari on the left. Red is “Stop,” green means “Go!”

還有，你不要圍著Devi繞圈。如果要繞圈，我們也會讓你們順時針繞，而非逆時針。你只要到她的跟前。所以你最好從她的左側過去，因為她就是那樣的。從她的右側過去也沒大礙，但是從左側過去會讓你更有接收性。那就是為什麼在她的左側有一件綠色紗麗。紅色“停”，綠色”行”。

Question: What else should I be doing to earn Bhairavi’s grace?

問：我還應該做什麼來獲得女神的恩典？

Sadhguru: How do you earn grace? Many processes have been taught to you. But all these methods will work only if the priority is set in your mind. This is not just about Devi, it is about anything. If anything subjective has to work for you – even a love affair – it is a question of priority. If you hold something or someone as far more important than yourself, suddenly, that dimension becomes beautiful for you.

薩古魯：你如何獲得恩典？我們教了你很多方法。但是只有當你把她放在心裡重要的位置，這些方法才會有用。這不僅對女神是如此，對任何東西都是如此。如果一件主觀的事要成功——甚至是一場戀愛——歸根結底都是你把什麼放在首位的問題。如果你把一個東西或一個人看得比你自己重要得多，剎那間，那個維度就會變得無比美妙。

問題是，如果你將一個人放在高於自己的位置，我們不知道另一個人有多少成熟度。他可能是那種看到樹就以為那只是木材，看到女人就想到性的那種人，他，看不到更多的東西。雖然不是一定會這樣，但是是有可能的，因為最根本的意識可能已被訓練成一種總是想著如何利用一樣東西的視角。 “我能夠得到什麼？” 總是這個問題。所以，如果你把某個人放在高於自己的位置，你可能被利用，誤用或者濫用。幸運的是事情不總是這樣，但是不幸的是這太經常發生了。

This is why we create a powerful form that has no intention about itself. You are also an energy form. But you are unable to maintain a particular level of consciousness because your thought, emotion and the compulsiveness of your body rule and contaminate your consciousness. So you create a powerful form that has no concern about itself and no compulsiveness because these are pure energy forms.

這就是為什麼我們創造了一種強大卻不帶自身目的的形式。你自己也是一種能量形式。但是你不能維持某個特定的意識水平，因為你的念頭、情感和身體的強迫性支配並且混淆了你的意識。所以我們就創造一種強大的形式，它不會顧及自身，也沒有強迫性，因為它們是純粹的能量形式。

So, to receive grace, you must hold her as the highest entity. The question is not about what you do. The question is about the priority in your mind. If you see her as a tool to get something, she works, but in a mediocre way. If you see her as the highest priority, beyond yourself, you will know something very different. Logical minds can never decipher how this will work. The kind of things that will happen are too phenomenal.

因此，為了接收恩典，你必須把她當作最高的實體存在。問題不在於你做什麼。問題在於在你心裡什麼是最重要的。如果你把她當作一個工具去幫你得到什麼，她會起作用，但是效果只能一般。但如果你將她放在最高的位置上，超乎你自己，你會體驗到非常不同的東西。邏輯性的頭腦永遠不能夠破譯這是如何運作的。將會發生的事情太非凡了。

Question: Sometimes I wonder if I am connecting with Devi properly and asking her for what I want in the right way. Sometimes when my wish doesn’t get fulfilled, I think I am not asking properly. How do we go about it?

問：有些時候我懷疑我是否用正確的方式與女神連結以祈求我想要的東西。有時候當我的願望沒有被實現時，我在想可能是我沒有正確地進行祈求，我應該怎麼做？

Sadhguru: The best way is not to ask for anything. The best way is to simply see how profoundly you can connect with that dimension. If you ask, you will only ask from what you know. You cannot ask what you do not know. Asking what you know may look like development for now, but it is actually a backward step.

薩古魯：最好的方式是不要祈求任何東西。最好的方式是看著你自己可以與那個維度進行多深的連結。如果你祈求，你只會祈求你所知道的東西。你不能祈求你所不知道的。祈求你所知道的看起來好像有所進展，但實際上是一種退步。

If what you do not know needs to happen, you should stop asking. If you simply connect with that energy, things will happen. Whichever way it happens, it’s fine with us, because for all these things to happen, you should have established yourself in such a way that what happens around you does not determine the quality of your life. What happens around us determines the quality of our work and what we do in the world, but it should not determine the quality of who and what you are. Once this is established, then you will see, asking is a silly thing.

要讓你所不知道的事物發生，那你就應該停止祈求。如果你只是單單與那種能量連結，事情便自會發生。不管它如何發生，我們都可以接受。因為要讓這一切發生，你應該以這樣的方式樹立自己，即：不管你周遭發生什麼，它都不會影響你生命的質量。周遭發生的事情會影響我們的工作和我們在世的所作所為，但是它不應該影響到你的內在本質。一旦這一點明確了，你會發現，祈求是一件很傻的事。

If something beyond what you know needs to happen, you must understand that asking is not the way to exist. Asking is a very rudimentary way to exist. There are more profound ways to be. So don’t go about becoming anxious about, “Is this going to happen, is it not going to happen.” If it happens, good. If it doesn’t happen, very good.Does that mean you are wasting your time with Bhairavi? Tell me, should you drive the Divine or should the Divine drive you? If you understand that, there is no issue.

如果一些超乎你所知的事情需要發生，那麼祈求就不該是你的存在方式。祈求是一種很原始的存在方式。但有更多深刻的存在方式。所以不要焦慮於 “這會不會發生，那會不會發生。” 如果它發生了，好。如果它不發生，很好。這意味著你正在貝拉維女神上浪費你的時間嗎？告訴我， 是該讓神聖帶領你，還是讓你帶領神聖？如果你明白這個，就沒有問題了。

Love&Grace,

Sadhguru