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Ardas 的历史与结构(注 SSS?)

History and Structure of Ardas (Note SSS?)

日期:1978-01-22地点:No Location

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... Student: Today's class we'll be discussing Ardas, now Ardas means prayer. And we'll be discussing generally prayer in Sikh dharma and specifically the Sikh Ardas. And I think it's a very good definition of one time in class when class of Siri Singh Sahib when he was explaining that that what is God? And he was saying that God is the Infinity, which is the polarity of the finite, in other words God is the polarity of the man, already within us. So, God is already in us, but the Infinity with us.

……学生:今天的课我们要讨论 Ardas,Ardas 的意思是祈祷。我们会一般性地谈锡克正法里的祈祷,也会具体谈锡克的 Ardas。我觉得课堂上有一次 Siri Singh Sahib 解释「什么是神」时,给了一个很好的定义。他说,神是无限,而无限是有限的极性,换句话说,神是人的极性,早已在我们之内。所以,神早已在我们之内,是那个与我们同在的无限。

So when I said to him, "Well, how can you pray then, if God is the polarity already part of us who do you pray to, you pray to yourself or what, now what is prayer? " And he said, that prayer when you come to Gurdwara or you got to a church, you got to a synagogue and you stand with your hands folded that's not prayer, that's preparation to prayer. And when we come to Gurdwara for service or whatever we are doing that's preparation to prayer, that's setting our mind so that we can come into a prayerful state.

于是我对他说:「那你怎么还能祈祷呢?如果神是极性,已经是我们的一部分,那你向谁祈祷?向你自己祈祷吗?到底什么是祈祷?」他说,祈祷——当你来到谒师所,或者走进教堂,走进会堂,双手合十站在那里——那不是祈祷,那是祈祷的准备。当我们来到谒师所做礼拜,或者做任何事,那都是祈祷的准备,那是在调整我们的心智,好让我们能进入祈祷的状态。

to Gurdwara for service or whatever we are doing that's preparation to prayer, that's setting our mind so that we can come into a prayerful state.

来到谒师所做礼拜,或者做任何事,那都是祈祷的准备,那是在调整我们的心智,好让我们能进入祈祷的状态。

So prayer is not that you are standing up and sing oh God help me and I'm in trouble and whatever, or even by standing up and with folded hands but the idea is that prayer is a state of being, it's a meditative state in which the being is merged with God. The being is merged in a vision of Infinity.

所以祈祷不是站在那里唱「哦神啊帮帮我,我遇到麻烦了」之类,甚至也不是双手合十站在那里。真正的意思是,祈祷是一种存在状态,是一种禅定性的状态,在其中,存在与神融合。存在融入了无限的景象之中。

If we concentrate with all might on Infinity, you know on that concept of perfection however we have viewed in ourself and just concentrate and concentrate no matter what happens on the outside we just we are so concentrated on that, that state when it becomes to a place where we no longer have to exert any effort but we are just in it, that's the state of prayer. So then what significance or what place does prayer have in our dharma? And if prayer is the total merging of our mind our finite self in the infinite self then that is exactly the purpose of yoga, the purpose of prayer, the purpose of our whole dharma is to reach that state of prayer.

如果我们用全部的力量专注于无限,你知道,专注于那个完美的概念——无论我们怎样在自己身上看待它——只是专注、专注,不管外面发生什么,我们都如此专注于此,直到那个状态到达一个地方,我们不再需要费力,只是身处其中,那就是祈祷的状态。那么,祈祷在我们的正法里有什么意义、什么位置?如果祈祷就是我们的心智、我们有形的自我完全融入无限的自我,那正是瑜伽的目的,祈祷的目的,我们整个正法的目的,就是达到那个祈祷的状态。

the infinite self then that is exactly the purpose of yoga, the purpose of prayer, the purpose of our whole dharma is to reach that state of prayer.

无限的自我,那正是瑜伽的目的,祈祷的目的,我们整个正法的目的,就是达到那个祈祷的状态。

The minimum requirement when we come before the Siri Guru Granth Sahib is to sit with our spine perfectly straight so that the energy can flow up and we can our energy can rise so that we can become into that state of prayer. So once we are sitting in that state and we are before our Guru when we put our whole mind to it and we merge in that vibration and that's the state of prayer.

当我们来到《圣格兰特经》面前,最低的要求是坐着时脊柱完全挺直,这样能量才能向上流动,我们的能量才能提升,我们才能进入那种祈祷的状态。所以一旦我们坐在那种状态里,身处我们的古茹面前,当我们把整个心智都投进去,融入那个振动,那就是祈祷的状态。

Thus the person who is doing the prayer that's the general prayer, now how prayer starts is in a congregation particularly in a Sikh dharma of course all through the ages men have looked to something to respond to their desires, so we need to think of the force of God being some force which can help us in all time of need, so that's why we say oh God please help me. When in actuality what's happening is we are putting out we are saying to ourselves I need this help what should I do? And since we are asking the question to our mind and then again our own self answers the question. We have to just put the question to our consciousness and it comes back.

于是,做祈祷的人——那是普通的祈祷——祈祷是怎么开始的呢?是在共修团体里,尤其在锡克正法中。当然,古往今来,人都指望某个东西来回应自己的欲望,所以我们需要把神的力量想成某种能在一切需要之时帮助我们的力量,所以我们才说:哦,神啊,请帮帮我。而实际上发生的是,我们在向外投射,我们在对自己说:我需要这个帮助,我该怎么做?既然我们是把问题问向自己的心智,然后又由我们自己来回答这个问题。我们只需把问题交给我们的意识,它就会回来。