THE NIGHT DREAM AND THE DAY DREAM 夜夢 及 白日夢
Once a king summoned his ministers in the early morning hours and asked them, "Last night, I had a very vivid dream. I was a butterfly, going from flower to flower, drinking honey. My dream was so clear and real that I have a grave doubt: Am I a king who was dreaming that he was a butterfly or am I a butterfly now dreaming that I am a king?"
有一回國王在早晨時召集了他的臣子們並且對他們說: 昨晚,我做了一個很清晰的夢,我見到自己是一隻蝴蝶, 在花叢中飛揚穿梭,吸取著花蜜,夢裡的一切是那麼清晰使我不得不懷疑.我自己到底是一個國王在夢中變成了一隻蝴蝶,或者我是一隻蝴蝶而夢著自己是個國王呢?
The commonplace phenomenon of dreams constitutes one of the greatest human mysteries. What is a dream? Is it real? If it is not, then why does a nightmare have real effects on the body like sweating and panting, something which happens only when we "really" run in fear? Could it then be that our waking life is also a dream?
夢是人類最大的謎題之一.夢昰什麼? 夢是真的嗎? 如果不是,為什麼噩夢能在我們身上能造成影響: 例如冒冷汗,尿褲子等等那些只有當我們在真正經歷恐懼時才有的生理現象?是不是當我們清醒時的生活也是一場夢?
If we look back at a past experience from a dream we had and compare it to one from our waking life, is there any substantial difference? Both are gone and done and we can do nothing about them now except remember them. We call what we experience when asleep a dream because it ends when we wake up. Can it that what we call death will be like waking up from the dream of what we are experiencing when "awake" now?
如果我們拿以前做夢的經驗和清醒時的情形做比較,這兩者有什麼實質的差別嗎? 兩者都已經發生了而且無法改變,我們所能做的就只是記憶.我們睡著時的經歷稱之為夢,當我們醒來時夢就結束了.是不是我們所説的死亡就像是從夢裏 -- 我們現在正經歷的"清醒"--中醒過來?
Thinking deeper about dreams, helps us in understanding our identity to be different from our body. When we dream, our bodies lie on the bed, experiencing nothing physically. Yet we experience being chased by a tiger or sporting with a princess. This means that I - the experiencer of the emotions - am not the body, since the (gross) body is not actually involved in the experience.
對夢的深入思考幫助我們了解我們的身分是有異於這個身體的,我們做夢時,身體躺在床上,沒有感到任何肢體動作, 但是我們卻經驗著如被老虎追趕或是和一位公主享受在一起的經歷.這說明了--我,情緒的經歷者,不是這個身體,因為這個身體並沒有參與這個經驗
Vedic scriptures explain that our consciousness shuttles between four states - jagruti (normal wakefulness), svapna (dream), sushupti (deep dreamless sleep) and samadhi (divine wakefulness). Our actual identity as souls, beloved children of God, is experienced in samadhi. Presently, though physically awake we are spiritually asleep.
吠陀( 韋達)經典解釋著我們的意識知覺在四個階段裡穿梭--普通的清醒-jagruti,夢--svapna,深沉無夢睡眠--sushupti, 以及真正靈性的甦醒--samadhi .在靈性意識甦醒時,我們知道實際上我們是靈魂,是神親愛的孩子.但是現在我們雖然肉體上是清醒的,但靈性意識上卻昰沉睡的.
Therefore, the answer to the king's question is that he is a spiritual child of God, dreaming himself to be a king (jagruti). And within that dream, he ishaving a second dream of being a butterfly (svapna)
因此,對於國王問題的解答是: 他是神的一個靈性孩子,夢見自己是個國王,然後在自己認為是個國王的那個夢裡又夢見自己是一隻蝴蝶.
A sleeping person cannot even perceive the existence of the shining sun, though the sun is sustaining his very life. Similarly due to our spiritual slumber, we cannot perceive the presence and love of God, hough He is sustaining our very existence by providing heat, light, air, water and food. But just as a sleeping person can be awakened by sound, we can wake from our spiritual slumber through spiritual sound - the holy name of God. Therefore let us chant and wake up to our rightful joyful life of immortal love.
一個沉睡中人無法感知到照耀中的太陽的存在,雖然太陽供養了他真實的生命; 同樣的,由於在我們靈性上的沉睡,受到神的幻覺能量所遮蔽,使我們無法感知到神和祂的愛的存在, 祂雖然供給我們光, 熱,水和食物等等讓我們維持生存.就像一個沉睡中的人可以被聲音所喚醒一樣,我們也可以經由靈性的聲振,神的聖名--從聆聽神的聖名來喚醒沉睡中的我們一樣. 因此讓我們可來唱誦並且喚醒我們原本不朽的 喜樂生命.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
哈瑞 奎師那 哈瑞 奎師那 奎師那 奎師那 哈瑞 哈瑞
哈瑞 茹阿瑪 哈瑞 茹阿瑪 茹阿瑪 茹阿瑪 哈瑞 哈瑞
宗 教 哲 學 (5)