卡玛瑜伽： 为何要无私？怎样做到无私？

Karma Yoga: Why and How to be Selfless

卡玛瑜伽：为何要无私？怎样做到无私？

Articles by Swami Sitaramananda

作者：斯瓦米·悉达罗摩南达

翻译：郝阳

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Life is a school. Just as in a school, if you do not pass the exam, you will have to repeat the class; so also, if you do not learn your karmic lessons, you have to repeat the experience again and again until you understand, class after class, until you graduate.

生活就是一所学校。如同在学校一样，如果你通不过考试，就得重修一遍课程；所以同样的，如果你不从经历里学到你的业力，就得一遍一遍重复同样的经历直到有所了解，直到你毕业。

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The graduated souls are the teachers who guide us, like Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnu-devananda. These people have finished their Karma; they have learned their lessons.

“毕业”了的灵魂就是那些指导着我们的老师，比如斯瓦米·悉瓦南达和斯瓦米·威斯奴帝瓦南达两位大师。他们已经经历了自己的业力；学完了他们的“课程”。

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You have to experience in order to learn. Karma is our specific lessons, and we take on this body and mind with this particular situation and these particular circumstances in order for us to experience--so that we can learn the lesson of that particular experience. To learn, you have to go through the experience without identifying with it. In this way, action can bind you or free you. You have a certain Karma, a certain role to play, and you have to live it, to go through the experience, and at the same time know that it is not you.

想要学习，就得体验。业力是我们具体的课程，我们在这个身体和意识里，在这个具体的情形和条件下体验，以学习有关这个独特经历的知识和教训。为了学习，你必须从头到尾经历这个体验，同时认识到自己并不等同于这个体验。行为可以约束你，也可以解放你。你有一定的业力，一定的角色要扮演，你不得不那么做，历经这样的体验，而同时认识到这个经验并不是你本身。

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It's not what you do, it is how you do it. One role is no more important than another. You can be a dish-washer or be President of the United States, but it is all still just Karma. We think that if we can change our role and get a different position, things will be better, but that is not it. To move past the karma, you must go through the experience and play the role, whatever it is, yet also remain detached. That is the practice of Karma Yoga.

这和你做什么无关，你怎么做才是要点。一个角色并不比另一个角色重要。你可以是一个洗碗工，也可以是美国的总统，这都仅仅只是业力罢了。我们觉得如果我们换一个角色，坐上另外一个位置，事情就会变得更好，但不是这样的。要想超越业力，无论你的角色是什么，你都必须扮演这个角色，历经这个经历，同时保持无执。这就是卡玛瑜伽的练习。

关于无私行为的几点指南：

✎ Right Attitude.

The number one thing is attitude. It's not what you do, it's how you do it. You can be doing charity work with the motive of gaining more name and fame, or with the idea of helping people – this is a huge difference. The attitude behind is what counts, not the action itself.

✎ 正确的态度

态度是第一位的。这和你做什么无关，你怎么做才是要点。同样是做慈善，你可以出于获得更多名利而做，也可以是出于帮助别人而做，这是有巨大差别的。背后的出发点和态度才是关键，而不是行为本身。

✎ Pure Motive.

If the motive is selfless, to do service, then if somebody praises you, you are fine – if somebody criticizes you, you are also the same. Otherwise, it's not Karma Yoga. Constantly work to examine your motives and your reactions to see if you are selfless or not. By examining your reactions, you can come to know your true motives.

✎ 纯粹的动机

如果服务的动机是无私的，如果有人表扬你，你挺好的；如果有人批评你，你一样也没事。不然就不是卡玛瑜伽。不间断地检查自己的动机和自己的反应，去省视自己是否是无私的。通过检查自己的反应，你就可以知道自己真实的动机。

✎ Open Heart. 

The moment we start to do something, the thought will come: “What is in it for me?” “What about me?” Most of the time it is like that. Most of the time, if there is not anything for the 'me', we will not do it. The Me and the Mine is so strong, because we think that is what will bring us the happiness. But when you let go of “me and mine” you actually start to feel happy. When you can open your heart, when you can think of others and really giving to others, that is when your heart opens and the energy of the Universe can flow through you; you feel so good!

✎ 敞开心扉

在我们开始做事时，这样的想法就会随之而来：“我能从中得到什么？” “我会怎么样？”大多数时间都是这样。大多数时候，如果对“我”没有任何好处，我们就不会去做。自我是如此的强大，我们觉得那是可以带给我们快乐的东西。然而，当放下“我”和“我的”这些念头之时，你其实才会开始快乐起来。当你敞开心扉，为别人着想，真正给予别人的时候，你的心是敞开的，宇宙能量才可以通过，你会感觉非常棒！

✎ Doing Your Specific Duty. 

Doing your duty means responding appropriately to the demands of the moment. The practice of doing your duty is the practice of not just going with your tendency and following what you like, avoiding what is not attractive. You have to go through with the karma and be responsible in your role, until you understand and really get it. We are constantly scheming to find a way out of the situation or ways to gain more for ourselves--like more time, more position, more pleasure. But that is not the way to work out the karma. Only when you can go through that role, doing your duty even though you do not like it will you make progress. Only then will you be paying up your debts. 

✎ 尽你应尽的职责

尽你的职责是说对即时产生的需求给予恰当的回应。尽你该尽的职责并不只是跟随你的倾向，追随你喜欢的，规避没有吸引力的。你必须要经历你的业力，对你扮演的角色负责，直到你真正地理解和明白。我们总是想方设法去试图脱离当下的情形，要不就是想方设法为自己赢得更多，比如更多的时间，更高的职位，更多的享乐。但是这并不是解决业力的方法。只有当你经历那个角色，即使你不喜欢，去尽应尽的职责，你才能有所进步，只有这样才能偿还清你的债。

社会需要人与人交流，人的内在要刚硬方强，但对于外在和别人交流时要圆润，懂得变通。善于与人沟通，摸索到别人的想法，才能促成合作。

✎ Do your best.

Doing your best means you have to put in the effort. That means you have to really find all that you know, use all your resources to do the job to the best of your ability.

✎ 尽力而为

尽力而为意思是说你得要付出努力。意味着你必须尽力挖掘你所知晓的，用你所有的资源和能力去完成一样事情。

✎ Give up results – Detachment.

This is the key of Karma Yoga. You have to learn to let go of the results of your actions, good or bad, and detach from the sense of doership. You are only the instrument in the hands of the Divine.

✎ 不计较结果-无执。

这是卡玛瑜伽的关键。无论好坏你必须学会放下你行为所产生的结果，不执着于作为者的意识。你只是为神明服务的媒介。