In a vivid narration from Sadhguru, we take a look at the being who introduced yoga to humankind, the Adiyogi, the first yogi.
让我们从萨古鲁的一段生动叙述中来了解第一位瑜伽士，这位将瑜伽传给人类的开山鼻祖，阿迪瑜吉（Adiyogi）。
Sadhguru: In the yogic culture, Shiva is not known as a god, but as the Adiyogi or the first yogi – the originator of yoga. He was the one who first put this seed into the human mind. According to the yogic lore, over fifteen thousand years ago, Shiva attained to his full enlightenment and abandoned himself in an intense ecstatic dance upon the Himalayas. When his ecstasy allowed him some movement, he danced wildly. When it became beyond movement, he became utterly still.
萨古鲁：在瑜伽文化中，湿婆（Shiva）不被称作神，而是被称作阿迪瑜吉或第一位瑜伽士——瑜伽的开创者。他是第一位将瑜伽的种子放入人类心中的人。根据瑜伽的传说，在1万五千多年前，湿婆达到了完全开悟的境界，在喜马拉雅山上沉浸于热烈而狂喜的舞蹈之中。当他的狂喜允许他进行肢体运动时，他就疯狂地舞蹈。当他的狂喜变得超越肢体运动时，他就完全静止不动。
People saw that he was experiencing something that nobody had known before, something that they were unable to fathom. Interest developed and people came wanting to know what this was. They came, they waited and they left because the man was oblivious to other people’s presence. He was either in intense dance or absolute stillness, completely uncaring of what was happening around him. Soon, everyone left…
人们看到湿婆正在体验着某种他们前所未见无法琢磨的东西。他们饶有兴趣，蜂拥而至，盼望知道这种东西是什么。他们来了，也等了，最后却离开了，因为湿婆遗忘了他们的存在。他要么热烈地跳舞，要么处于绝对静止的状态，完全不顾周围所发生的事。很快，所有人都走了……
Except for seven men
除了七个人之外
These seven people were insistent that they must learn what this man had in him, but Shiva ignored them. They pleaded and begged him, “Please, we want to know what you know.” Shiva dismissed them and said, “You fools. The way you are, you are not going to know in a million years. There is a tremendous amount of preparation needed for this. This is not entertainment.”
这七个人坚持一定要学到湿婆身上的东西，但是湿婆对他们视而不见。他们恳求湿婆道：“求求你了，我们想了解你所了解的东西。”湿婆让他们离开并说道：“你们这些傻子，以你们现在的样子，再过一百万年你们也不会了解的。要了解的话，需要大量的准备。这可不是什么消遣。”
So they started preparing. Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, they prepared. Shiva just chose to ignore them. On a full moon day, after eighty-four years of sadhana, when the solstice had shifted from the summer solstice to the winter solstice – which in this tradition is known as Dakshinayana – the Adiyogi looked at these seven people and saw that they had become shining receptacles of knowing. They were absolutely ripe to receive. He could not ignore them anymore. They grabbed his attention.
于是他们开始准备，日复一日，月复一月，年复一年，他们一直准备着。湿婆还是选择对他们视而不见。在经过84年的灵性练习（Sadhana）后，在一个满月日，当地球从夏至日开始向冬至日转换时——在印度传统中该变化被称作南行（Dakshinayana）。阿迪瑜吉看着这七个人，发现他们已经成为闪闪发光的容器。他们已经完全准备好，能够很好地接收了。湿婆无法再对他们视而不见。他们引起了湿婆的注意。
He watched them closely for the next few days and when the next full moon rose, he decided to become a Guru. The Adiyogi transformed himself into the Adi Guru; the first Guru was born on that day which is today known as Guru Pournami. On the banks of Kanti Sarovar, a lake that lies a few kilometers above Kedarnath, he turned South to shed his grace upon the human race, and the transmission of the yogic science to these seven people began. The yogic science is not about a yoga class that you go through about how to bend your body – which every new born infant knows – or how to hold your breath – which every unborn infant knows. This is the science of understanding the mechanics of the entire human system.
在接下来的一些天里阿迪瑜吉密切地观察着他们，当下一次满月升起时，他决定成为一位上师（即古鲁）。阿迪瑜吉成为了阿迪古鲁（Adi Guru），而第一位上师诞生的那天在如今被称作上师满月日（Guru Pournami）。在距离Kedarnath几公里远的Kanti Sarovar湖的岸边，他面朝南方，将他的恩典照向人类，并自此开始了向这七个人传授瑜伽科学的过程。瑜伽科学不是你们上的那些关于如何弯曲身体的瑜伽课——这个每个新生儿都会。瑜伽科学也不是关于如何屏住呼吸——这个每个未出生的胎儿都会。它是一门了解整个人类系统机制的科学。
萨古鲁在Kanti Sarovar湖边
After many years, when the transmission was complete, it produced seven fully enlightened beings – the seven celebrated sages who are today known as the Saptarishis, and are worshipped and admired in Indian culture. Shiva put different aspects of yoga into each of these seven people, and these aspects became the seven basic forms of yoga. Even today, yoga has maintained these seven distinct forms.
很多年以后，当传授完成时，七个完全开悟的人也就此产生了——七个著名的圣贤，在如今被称作七贤（Saptarishis），在印度文化里他们受到崇拜和敬仰。湿婆将瑜伽的不同方面分别传授给这七个人，而这些方面就成为瑜伽的七个基本形式。甚至在今天，瑜伽还是保有这七种不同形式。
阿迪瑜吉传授瑜伽科学给七贤
The Saptarishis were sent in seven different directions to different parts of the world to carry this dimension with which a human being can evolve beyond his present limitations and compulsions. They became the limbs of Shiva, taking the knowing and technology of how a human being can exist here as the Creator himself, to the world. Time has ravaged many things, but when the cultures of those lands are carefully looked at, small strands of these people’s work can be seen, still alive. It has taken on various colors and forms, and has changed its complexion in a million different ways, but these strands can still be seen.
七贤被以七个不同方向派往世界的不同地方，他们所带有的维度可以使一个人进化，超越他的当前局限和本能。他们成为了湿婆的左膀右臂，将关于一个人如何作为造物主本身而存在的知识和技术散布到世界各处。时间摧毁了很多东西，但是如果仔细观察那些土地上的文化，仍会发现他们所做的工作还留有遗迹，还在影响着人们。虽然已被染上了不同颜色，变换成了百万种形式，但是这些痕迹还是依稀可辨。
Whatever dimension of existence you are in right now, you can go beyond that – there is another way to live. He said, “You can evolve beyond your present limitations if you do the necessary work upon yourself.” That is the significance of the Adiyogi.
无论你现在处于存在的哪个维度，你都可以超越该维度——有另一种活着的方式。阿迪瑜吉说过：“如果你对自身下了必要功夫，那么你就能进化，超越你的当前局限。”这就是阿迪瑜吉的重要性。
The Adiyogi brought this possibility that a human being need not be contained in the defined limitations of our species. There is a way to be contained in physicality but not to belong to it. There is a way to inhabit the body but never become the body. There is a way to use your mind in the highest possible way but still never know the miseries of the mind. Whatever dimension of existence you are in right now, you can go beyond that – there is another way to live. He said, “You can evolve beyond your present limitations if you do the necessary work upon yourself.” That is the significance of the Adiyogi.
阿迪瑜吉带来了一种可能性，即我们不一定要被束缚于我们这个物种被设定的局限中。有一种方法可以使你被容纳在身体之中但不属于它。有一种方法可以使你居于身体之中但永远不会成为身体。有一种方法可以使你以最大可能的方式利用你的头脑但却永远不会受其所困。无论你现在处于存在的哪个维度，你都可以超越该维度——有另一种活着的方式。阿迪瑜吉说过：“如果你对自身下了必要功夫，那么你就能进化，超越你的当前局限。”这就是阿迪瑜吉的重要性。
Love&Grace,
Sadhguru
爱与恩典
萨古鲁
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isha.sadhguru.org/blog/yoga-meditation/history-of-yoga/the-first-yogi
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