Isha编者按：萨古鲁关于小我的本质——如果一个人试图让自己像伸出在外的大拇指那样出头，那他注定会感到酸痛！萨古鲁指出，每当我们试着变得独特，往往会落得受伤的结局。他阐述道，你需要做的仅仅是与周围的一切融为一体，而不是把自己排除于存在之外。
萨古鲁：小我总是想要凸显自己，它不知道怎么与周围的一切保持和谐一致。你想要在人群中变得十分扎眼，就像伸出在外的大拇指，伸久了大拇指总会酸痛的。有一次，山卡兰·皮莱从伦敦回来，穿着一条崭新的紧身斜纹粗棉布牛仔裤，搭配紧身绸子衬衫，留了一个很神气的新潮发型。他来到离家最近的公园，准备炫耀一下自己的新造型。他朝一个坐在长凳上的老人走了过去，坐在他身旁。老人盯着山卡兰·皮莱看，上下打量了一番，最后眼光停在了山卡兰·皮莱头顶上那六英寸高、五颜六色的尖峰。
那些尖峰全染成花哨的颜色——橙、紫、绿、黄、蓝、粉红。山卡兰·皮莱朝老人望过去，带着几分嘲讽说：“怎么了，老古董？你一辈子都没做过什么疯狂的事情吧？”老人淡定地说道：“呃，我有一次喝醉了，跟一只鹦鹉拍了个拖，我就在想，你会不会是我俩生下的儿子。”这些日子来，你们营造的整个文化都是围绕着凸显自我。然而，你越是试着变得独一无二，就越趋向于把自己排除在生命与存在之外，由此带来伤痛。
走出去，到大自然中生活......跟那里的大自然融合，小我便会被摧毁。
你越是想变得特殊，就越容易受到更多的伤害。你需要做的仅仅是与身边的一切融合，成为它们的一部分，与流经身旁的风融合，与周围的泥土融合。忘掉你拥有的舒适安逸的生活条件，忘掉你的情感和好恶，放下所有这些毫无意义的东西。像蛇那样活着吧，仅仅是四处爬行，进食，高兴的时候就安然蜷缩在一棵树下，就这么做吧——至少坚持个几天，这是很有价值的。许多阻碍都可以被清除掉——仅仅是通过走出去，到大自然中生活。正是因为这个原因，那些刚刚开始灵性之旅的人通常会来到喜马拉雅山脉或者其他山地，仅仅是在那里生活，跟那里的大自然融合，小我便会被摧毁。这本身就是一半的灵性修行。
在喜马拉雅山脉，恰好是在基达（Kedar）上面的一个地方，我遇到了几个纳迦巴巴（Naga Babas：赤身苦修圣人），他们耗尽钱财，饥寒交迫。我连续两天照顾他们的饮食，并跟他们相处了一段时间。当时我只穿了一件羊毛小背心和一件T恤，幸好有人给了我一条披肩，这可是上天给我的大恩宠。如果没有这条披肩，我会被冻僵的。当时太冷了，我甚至觉得自己的五脏六腑都在颤抖，我是真的感觉到自己的胃在发抖，这些纳迦巴巴是赤身苦修圣人，被禁止穿任何针线缝制的衣物，他们在身上裹一条类似披肩的东西，因为当时实在是太冷了。他们不穿鞋子，甚至连买茶喝的钱都没有。他们把仅有的一点点钱省下来，用于参加大壶节（Kumbha Mela：世界范围内规模最大的灵性集会，数以百万计的信徒都在节日之际前往恒河与亚穆纳河这两大圣河交汇处沐浴净身）。
对他们来说，这比饱食更重要。当我问起他们做什么灵性练习时，他们说自己什么都不做，只是像纳迦族人那样、像蛇一样，整天四处游荡。他们的上师要求他们在喜马拉雅山呆够12年，然后上师会给他们做开启。当一个人的方向如此单一，以至于让他能等上12年，全然不顾恶劣的天气和艰苦的生存条件，仅仅为了等待被开启，这样的人终将会登上至高的境地，这一点是毫无疑问的。
留给上师做的事情就不多了——无论上师是否可以给予什么，他们最终一定会得到，因为他们以这种方式造就了自己。他们不需要上师。如果一个人有那么多的耐心和毅力，在不确定是否会有下一顿、何时能吃上下一顿的情况下，仍旧能在可怕的严寒中坚守十二年之久，在排成长队的人群中等待被开启，无论如何他终将会实现的。这个过程本身就是一种灵性修行。
上师很清楚，如果在那个人来到他面前的那一天，他就为那个人做开启，那么一切都将是白费。那个人会把整个机会都浪费掉。因此，他每年都把成百上千的人送到这样的山脉。也许只有一些人最后成功了——许多人都逃跑了，因为这是一条太过艰难的路。在那样的条件下生活是很艰苦的。如果一个人有意愿这么做，无论他最后是否真的做了，这不是关键所在。如果他愿意去尝试，不管他能坚持多长时间，他都会有所得。就是这么简单。不是说你不应该过舒服的生活，但如果你只追求舒适，那就只好算了吧，这条路不属于你。
好恶的出现，是因为你被生命的二元性捆绑，而二元性正是孕育无知的温床。“瑜伽”这个词正意味着去超越这种二元性并了悟存在的合一性。
作为人你为自己设下各种限制，而你的好恶是所有限制中的根基所在。仔细审视自己的性格，你会发现它仅仅是各种好恶。这些好恶的出现，是因为你被生命的二元性捆绑，而二元性正是孕育无知的温床。“瑜伽”这个词正意味着去超越这种二元性并了悟存在的合一性。有各种不同的工具被用来帮助人们超越二元性的捆绑。你喜欢什么东西，厌恶什么东西，仅仅是因为你在内心深处对它进行“好”与“坏”的区分，那些你认为是“好”的，你情不自禁地就喜欢，那些你认为是“坏”的，你控制不住地厌恶。
正因如此，在印度文化中，我们把湿婆的个性塑造成集美与丑、好与坏、可怖与愉悦于一体的综合体。我们把他置于至高无上的地位，这样一来，当我们接纳他时，也就等于接纳了一切。你超越了好恶的局限，那么就可以超越你的二元性。
Isha editor：Sadhguru on the nature of the ego – if one tries to stick out like a sore thumb, he is bound to get hurt!
When trying to be special, Sadhguru points out, we end up getting hurt. Instead of excluding ourselves from existence, he explains, just melt and merge with everything around you.
Sadhguru: The ego is always trying to stick out. It is not seeing how to be in tune with what is surrounding it. Among people, you want to stick out like a sore thumb, and a sore thumb alway shurts. Once, after returning from London, Shankaran Pillai was decked out innew tight denim pants, a body-hugging satin shirt, and was sporting a new hairdo. He went to the nearest park to show off his new look. He approached an old man who was sitting on a bench and sat down next to him. The old man stared at Shankaran Pillai, looking him up and down. His stare finally focused in on the six inch multi colored spikes coming out of Shankaran Pillai’s head.
The spikes were all flashy colors – orange, purple, green, yellow, blue and pink.Shankaran Pillai looked over at the old man and said sarcastically, “What’s the matter, old-timer? Never done anything wild in your life?” Without batting an eye the old man replied, “Well, I got drunk once and had a date with a parrot,and I was just wondering if you were my son.” These days, you are making a whole culture of trying to stick out. The more exclusive you try to be, the more excluded you are getting from life and existence, hence the hurt.
Melting and Merging
The more you try to be special, the more you get hurt. Just be, just melt and become part of the wind around you, the earth around you, become a part of everything. Forget your comforts, your sensibilities, your likes and dislikes.Leave all that nonsense. Live like the snakes. Just crawl around, eat and if you feel like curling up under a tree, do it – at least for a few days, it is worthwhile. A lot of barriers can be removed by going out and living in nature.That is the reason why, when one begins a spiritual journey, they go to the Himalayas or to some other mountain. Just by merging with nature and living there, the ego will be destroyed. That itself is half the sadhana.
A lot of barriers can be removed by going out and living in nature…Just by merging with nature and living there, the ego will be destroyed. That itself is half the sadhana.
I met some Naga Babas in a place just above Kedar, in the Himalayas, and stayed with them for two days. They had run out of money, and they were hungry and cold. For two days I took care of their food and spent time with them. I only had on a little woolen in-shirt and a T-shirt. Fortunately, somebody had given me a shawl which was a big blessing. If the shawl had not been there, I would have frozen. It was so cold that even my insides were shivering. I could literally feel the stomach bag shiver. These Babas are naked sadhus who are not supposed to wear anything that is stitched.They wrapped something like a shawlover themselves, because it was too cold. They were not wearing footwear, and they did not even have money for tea. They were saving the little they had to goto the Kumbha Mela.
That was more important for them than having something to eat. When I asked them what their sadhana was, they said they were doing nothing. They just roam about like the nagas, the snakes. Their Guru had told them to spend twelve years in the Himalayas and then he would initiate them. When one is so uni-directional that he can wait twelve years, oblivious to harsh weather and difficult living conditions, and just wait for his initiation, reaching the highest can not bedenied to him.
There is not much for the Guru to do – whether he has something to give or not, these guys will get it anyway because of the very way they have made themselves. They do not need a Guru. If a man has that much patience and stamina that he can stay twelve years, not knowing when or if the next meal is going to come, just waiting in that terrifying cold in a queue to be initiated, he will get it anyway. That itself is a sadhana.
The Guru knows that if he initiates someone the same day the person comes to him, it will be wasted on the man. He will waste the whole opportunity. So he sends hundreds of people to the mountains like this every year. Maybe only some of them make it – many run away because it is a very difficult path. It is very tough to stay in such conditions. When a person is willing to do this, whether he does it or not, that is not the point. If he is willing to go to any length,that man gets it. It is that simple. It is not that you should not be comfortable, but if you are seeking comfort, forget it. This path is definitely not yours.
Beyond Likes and Dislikes
Your likes and dislikes are the basis of all the limitations you have set foryourself as a person. Take a careful look at your personality; you will see it is just a bundle of likes and dislikes. These likes and dislikes have risenfrom your enslavement to the duality of life, which is the bed rock of ignorance. The very word “yoga” means to transcend this duality and know the oneness of existence. Various devices have been used to help people go beyond this enslaving duality. You like or dislike something simply because somewhere deep down you have identified it as either good or bad. Whatever you identify as good, you can not help liking and whatever you identify as bad, you can not help disliking.
This is why in Indian culture, we created the personality of Shiva as a complex amalgamation of all that is beautiful, ugly, terrible, pleasant, good and bad.They made him the highest so that in accepting him, you accept everything. You transcend the limitations of your likes and dislikes and in turn, your dualities.
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