萨古鲁 Isha

编者注：2022年11月8日，中国所在的区域将出现月食，月食的时间是16:00至21:57分（以北京地区为例）；月食期间请保持空腹，也就是你应该在月

食前4个小时吃完正餐，前2.5个小时吃完零食或水果，前1.5个小时喝完饮料或果汁。

Is it true that you should not eat during an eclipse? While such food won’t kill you, says Sadhguru, it will lower your perception. For a yogi, the loss of sensitivity is as good as death, he explains. Like a high-performance vehicle, if you want to function at your highest, you must look carefully at what kind of fuel goes into you.

在日月食期间你不该进食，这是真的吗？萨古鲁说，尽管进食不会致死，但是它会降低你的感知力。他解释说，对于一个瑜伽士，失去敏感性几乎就是死亡。就像一辆高性能车，如果你想在你的最高水平运作，你必须仔细去看进入你体内的是哪种燃料。

Meditator: Sadhguru, you may not be aware of this, but in the last few days after the eclipse, there have been lot of people on social media, they’re referring to your observation that food becomes unfit for consumption during eclipse, and they're saying they had food and they did not die. (Sadhguru laughs)

冥想者：萨古鲁，您可能不知道，在日食之后的过去几天里，社交平台上有很多人提到，您说在日月食期间不适合进食，但他们吃了，却没死。（萨古鲁笑）

Sadhguru: Are they disappointed? (Laughter)

Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：他们对此很失望吗？（笑声）

Meditator: They're even calling you superstitious and non-scientific. So... just wanted to hear your thoughts on that.

冥想者：他们甚至说您迷信、不科学。（萨古鲁笑）我想听听您的想法。

Sadhguru: Let’s understand, what is superstition? (Chuckles) Superstition is...without any perception or knowledge about a certain subject, you make conclusions - that’s superstition.

Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：让我们来理解，什么是迷信？迷信指的是，对某个问题没有任何感知或知识，你就得出结论，那就是迷信。

Now ah…the nature of life is like this: Depends how sensitive you are, accordingly, that profound is your perception and experience of life. This will not come through intellectual accumulation. Those who read a high school textbook, if they think they are scientists... (Laughter) what can I say?... Because a genuine scientist, a scientist who was probed into any aspect of life, into any aspect of life with certain profoundness, will not speak like this. (Laughs)

那么，生命的本质是这样的：你有多敏感，你对生命的感知和体验就有多深刻。这不会通过智力上的积累而来，那些读了一本高中课本的人，如果他们自认为是科学家……（笑声）我能说什么呢？因为一个真正的科学家，一个研究过生命的任何面向的科学家，一个深入研究过生命的任何面向的科学家，是不会这么说的。（笑）

Now... as a yogi, I, as far as possible, I will never consume anything which is cooked, which is more than an hour-and-a-half old. Why we are serving the food, the way we're serving in the ashram, is hoping that all of you will graduate from being yoga practitioners to yogis. Not just bending and twisting, you are beginning to feel the union in the existence. If this has to happen, body has to be sensitive, and it has to have a minimum level of inertia.

那么，作为一个瑜伽士，只要可能，我绝不会去吃煮好了超过一个半小时的食物。为什么在瑜伽中心，我们这样为你们准备食物，是因为我们希望你们所有人都可以从瑜伽练习者升级到瑜伽士。不仅仅是弯曲和扭转（身体）而已，你们开始感受到存在中的合一。如果要达到这点，身体必须变得敏感，身体的惰性必须在最低值。

Now... if you eat food which in some way has deteriorated; it may not be rotten, nor is it going to kill you, you can eat it. (chuckles) It is just that, it will lower your perception. In my experience of life, for me, lower perception is death -at least death of the yogi. (laughs) The man may live, the yogi's dead, because he's lost his perception; he's lost his sensitivity.

现在，如果你吃了在某种程度上变质的食物，它可能没有腐烂，也不会要你的命，你可以吃。（笑）只是它会降低你的感知力。在我的生命体验中，对我而言，感知力下降就是死亡——至少说瑜伽士死了。（笑）人可能还活着，瑜伽士死了，因为他失去了他的感知力，失去了他的敏感性。

So... the death of sensitivity, if it doesn’t matter to you, there's really no problem; you can eat what you want. You can eat garbage, and still survive. Well, people are eating food that was cooked a week ago, ten days ago, three months ago; they’re keeping it in their refrigerators and eating. After eating it, they don’t know what’s the difference. (laughs) To such people, what can you say...but for sure, they cannot have the sensitivity that I'm talking about, and I'm sure they're sleeping eight to ten hours a day - that is death for me. (Chuckles) Ten hours of sleep, nearly forty percent death, isn’t it? In twenty-four hours.

所以……如果你不介意失去敏感性，那其实没什么问题，随便你吃什么，你吃垃圾也可以存活。人们吃的很多东西是一周前做好的，10天前做好的，3个月前做好的，他们把食物放在冰箱里，然后吃。吃了之后他们也不知道有什么区别，对于这样的人，你能说什么……（笑）但可以肯定的是，他们不能拥有我所说的敏感性。我也敢肯定他们一天要睡8-10小时，这对我来说就是死亡。（笑）24小时中有10小时在睡眠之中，那就近乎是40%死了，不是吗？

So... if you wish to live like that, you can eat whatever you want. What is the problem? You can eat anything you want. Well, I'm not a scientist either, and I don’t wish to be one. I don’t have either books to read, nor am I researching anything, nor am I looking through a microscope, nor do I have a lab in my backyard. (Laughter) I just pay attention to this human mechanism, which is me. I kept it well, takes a lot of work... Takes a lot of work to keep this well, doesn’t just come.

所以，如果你想那样活着，你可以随便吃，有什么问题呢？你可以想吃什么就吃什么。我不是一个科学家，也不想成为一个科学家。我没有书可读，也没有在做任何研究，也没有在通过显微镜看什么，我的后院也没有实验室。（笑声）我只是去关注这个人体机制，也就是我自己。我让它保持好的状态，这需要很多功夫……需要很多功夫让它保持良好，这是来之不易的。

So I keep it in a certain way, and that anything that happens in nature, I observe what’s happening with me, and I'm speaking that. I am also observing the life around me, for confirmation. Every insect, worm, bird, animal, tree, is saying the same thing. Well, if you're going to discover this after many years, and a few billion dollars of research, it’s up to you.

所以，我让它保持一定的状态，并且，对于自然中发生的任何事情，我都去观察我内在的反应，我把它们讲出来，同时我也去观察周围的生命，以获得确认。每一个昆虫、蠕虫、鸟、动物、树都在说着同样的东西。如果你想要在很多年后花了几十亿美金的研究后才发现这一点的话，那取决于你。

Well I want to tell you, till recently, these so-called scientists - the real science is different. A scientist who has looked at something with profoundness will not speak this way. These are probably internet scientists (laughter), you know?... They know every science, not just one, everything they know, because they're on the internet. So such people were saying - I'm saying something so simple, they were advocating that alcohol, tobacco, red meat are the best things for your life, till recently. Now suddenly they've all become activists against that, because somewhere, somebody said, after a billion-dollar research, we’ve been saying it forever. What is a recent discovery for you, has been an eternal wisdom for us.

我想告诉你，直到最近，这些所谓的科学家——真正的科学家另当别论，一个深入研究过某件事的科学家是不会这么说的。你说的这些很可能是网络科学家。（笑声）你知道的，他们知道每一种科学，不仅是一种，而是一切科学，因为他们一直在网上。所以，这些人说——如此简单的一件事——直到最近，他们都在提倡酒、烟、红肉是你生命中最好的东西。现在突然他们都成了积极的反对者，因为有人做了几十亿美金的研究后这么说了。而我们一直都在这么说。对你们是新发现的事情，对我们而言，是永恒古老的智慧。

I’ll tell you, I was in conversation with a doctor in United States of Indian origin; he was telling me, that he is the first one in western medicine to identify that the heart not only pumps blood, but it also sucks the blood back, the ventricles pump it out, the atrium sucks it back. This, he is the first one who wrote the papers, he sent me his videos, his TED talk, his scientific papers. I looked through it and I couldn’t believe it, that till recently, till a few years ago, nobody in the medical science knew that heart sucks back the venous blood.

我跟你说，一次我和一个印度裔的美国医生交谈，他告诉我，他是西医中第一位确认了心脏不仅泵血，而且还把血液吸回来的人——心室泵血，心房回血。就这一点，他是第一个写了论文的人。他给我发了他的视频，他的TED演讲，他的科学论文，我看了后，真不敢相信，直到最近，直到几年前，医学界才知道心脏会吸回静脉血。

Well in the yogic system, the focus is on the atrium, which sucks back the blood. The Ayurveda speaks about it, Charka Samhita speaks about it. In yoga, the focus is always not on pumping the blood out, but about sucking the blood back, because we are interested that our blood is as pure as possible. Because certain level of impurity in the blood means, we lose perception. We are not interested in terms of... what is the nutrition, what is the oxygen content, how long will I live - this is not the point. How do I live, what is the quality of my life, is my concern. How profound is my perception is always my concern, and this has always been the concern of this culture, and this science that we are referring to as yoga.

在瑜伽体系中，我们关心的是吸回血液的心房。阿育吠陀谈到了它，《遮罗迦本集》谈到了它。在瑜伽中，我们关心的一直不是泵血，而是把血吸回，因为我们想要血液尽可能保持纯净，因为血液中有杂质意味着我们会失去感知力。我们对……营养、含氧量、寿命不感兴趣——这些不是重点。我会怎样活着、我的生命品质如何才是我所关心的。我所关心的永远是我的感知力有多深，这也一直是这个文化，以及这门我们称之为瑜伽的科学所关心的。

So, if you think only if it’s written in a book, it is true, then you're very superstitious and religious; you're nothing scientific about you. You think night means just absence of light? Or there is a phenomenal change in the very way the life happens, from day to night? You ask every insect, bird, animal, tree...even the rock; it knows night is different. If you sit here, with little openness, you will know it’s not just about light. If you close your eyes, even in the day-time there's no light. In the night also there's no light, but is there no difference? Every meditator knows what’s the difference, isn’t it?

所以，如果你认为只有写在书里的才是真的，那你就是非常迷信和宗教的，你一点都不科学。你认为夜晚仅仅意味着光不在了吗？还是说，从白天到夜晚，生命发生的方式有着极大的变化？你去问每个昆虫、鸟、动物、树……甚至石头——它会知道夜晚是不同的。如果你带着一点开放性坐在这里，你就会知道，这不只是在于光。如果你闭上眼睛，就连在白天也没有光，夜晚也没有光，但难道两者就没区别了吗？每一个冥想者都会知道区别是什么，不是吗？

So somebody will say, this is all rubbish. There's just absence of sunlight, that’s it! That’s what they're saying about the eclipse. (chuckles) Doesn’t matter. I'm telling you, during the eclipse time, don’t cook food and eat, you know, keep it and then eat. Don’t do that! Eat before, or after, because this is life sense; this is not internet science. The greatest ignorance is knowing that you're not ignorant - that’s the whole problem. All the internet scientists, I please request you, eat some fresh food. (Laughter/Applause) Keep yourself healthy, well, perceptive - not to me, to life! Eat during the eclipse if you wish, hmm? You won’t die, inertia will build up.

那么，有人会说，这些都是胡扯。（日食）就只是没有阳光了，仅此而已！这就是他们关于日食所说的。（笑）没关系，我告诉你，在日月食期间，不要做饭然后吃，也不要保存起来之后吃，不要这么做！在日月食之前或之后吃，因为这是生命的道理，这不是网络科学。最大的无知，就是确信自己不无知——这就是全部的问题。所有的网络科学家，我请求你们，吃点新鲜食物吧。（笑声/掌声）让自己保持健康、有感知力，不是对我，而是对生命。

If you don’t mind the inertia…anyway, you're drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, doing things...maybe it won’t make any difference for you, possibly it doesn’t. If you take a high-end car today and go and pump gasoline in any of the Indian gas stations, which is 87 octane, your car will stop within a few kilometers. You need to buy special gas and put it into it. Why? Because it’s high performance. So if you want to be high performance, what kind of fuel goes into you, you look at it carefully. You are a junk machine. (Laughter) Eat whatever, drink whatever, what does it matter anyway? Live whichever way you want, there's really no problem, okay?

如果你想，在日月食期间你可以吃，好吗？你不会死，只是惰性会增加。如果你不介意惰性……不管怎样你都已经在喝酒、吸烟等等了，也许这不会对你造成任何不同，有可能不会。因为它的性能很高。今天如果你拿一辆高档车去印度任何一个加油站加87辛烷值的油，你的车在几公里内就会停下来，你需要给它加特别的油，为什么？所以如果你想成为一个高性能的人，你需要认真去看，要给自己加什么样的油。你是一个报废的机器，（笑声）那随便你吃喝，有什么关系？你想怎么活就怎么活，真的没问题，好吗？

So, if you're disappointed that you did not die by eating during the eclipse, (Laughs) I'm sorry you're superstitious, hmm? And ah... (laughs) the nature of life here is such that the earth, the sun, and the moon, have significant impact on this life. If you're conscious of its ways, you can ride this, and make your life effortless and easy. If you're not conscious, these same cycles could crush you, and everything you will struggle with, and...you will suffer enormous prejudice within you. Because prejudice and resentment will make you suffer more than physical disease, or pain, or injury. Please don’t stay there, try some fresh fruits and vegetables - it could help. Whatever next eclipse comes, one eclipse you eat old food, another eclipse you eat fresh food, experiment and see!

所以，如果你对自己没有在日食中死于进食而感到失望，（笑）对不起，你就是太迷信了，嗯？（笑）这里生命的本质是这样的：地球、太阳和月亮对这个生命有着重大的影响。如果你对它的运作方式保持意识，你就可以借助它，并让你的生命毫不费力且轻松自在。但如果你没有意识——这些同样的周期可能会压垮你，一切都会让你苦苦挣扎，而且……你会在内在承受巨大的偏见之苦。因为偏见和怨恨会比身体疾病、疼痛或受伤更让你痛苦。请不要这样，试一些新鲜的水果和蔬菜，可能会有帮助。不管下一次是日食还是月食，一次你吃不新鲜的，下一次你吃新鲜的，做个实验看看！