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Q: Much of the world seems to be very confused nowadays and everybody is in search of peace and happiness. Could you tell how Yoga can help people to come out of their confusion?

问：当今诸多世人似乎都很困惑，并且每个人都在寻求和平与幸福。您能告诉我们瑜伽如何帮助人们摆脱困惑吗？

A: First of all if one takes confusion in a right sense, is a stepping stone towards what I say, towards confidence. But why the confusion comes? Due to immaturity in judgement. We do not judge accurately with a mature mind. We jump immediately without even studying the pro’s and con’s of an idea. So we have to study the pro’s and con’s in a long run. Is it good or is it bad? We do not do that. So that’s we are in confusion. So from confusion only we have all come up, to be honest.

答:首先，如果一个人能正确地看待困惑，这就是我所说的走向自信的敲门砖。为什么会有困惑呢？是由于判断的不成熟。我们无法用成熟的头脑准确地做出判断。我们甚至不去研究一个想法的正反利弊就马上跳了起来。所以我们必须长期研究正反两方面。它是好的还是坏的？我们没有这样做，就会处于困惑当中。说实在的，要摆脱困惑，只有我们成长起来。

Q: And how can Yoga help the people?

问：瑜伽如何帮助人们？

A: confusion is connected to the want of intelligence and want of emotional satisfaction. And Yoga is definitely the subject which develops without even one knowing. That it is subject which stabilizes emotion. So because it’s stabilizes the emotions, the maturity sets in in that person. Intelligence develops when emotional stability is there. As long as there is no emotional stability the life is negative. So that creates a lot of confusion. So Yoga works directly from the subconscious mind. So we awaken the consciousness to spread in the body. Yoga is not an exercise as people think. Extension of your arm or your leg is not extension of your leg or arm. Is an extension of consciousness to reach that area? So expansion and extension of the consciousness in the presentation of what we do, leads one to stability, fullness. Everywhere is full consciousness, covered the entire body. So where is room for confusion? If there is emptiness, there is confusion. If there is no emptiness, how can there be a confusion? So the practical aspect of Yoga brings this consciousness to spread like water on the floor to find its level. So consciousness finds its level in the body through the practice of asana and pranayama. And that is why it gives a lot of stability. And these two aspects is known as perceptional aspect of Yoga. Because one can see, one can feel. So because feeling and looking is there to the perception of senses of perception. So this is taken constructively and makes the mind work constructively, with the understanding of the senses of perception and consciousness spreads with the healthy approach in this part of the body. Then there is no confusion. So confusion is a steppingstone for clarity.

答：困惑与智力的缺乏和情感的缺失有关。瑜伽绝对是一门不知不觉发展起来的学科，是一门稳定情绪的学科。因为它可以稳定情绪，所以（被稳定的）那人逐渐成熟。当情绪稳定了，智力就可以得到发展。只要情绪不稳定，生活就是消极的，从而造成很多困惑。瑜伽直接作用于潜意识，我们唤醒了意识并使其在体内扩展。瑜伽并非人们所认为的锻炼。手臂或腿的伸展并不仅仅是腿或手臂的伸展。难道不是意识扩展到了那个区域吗？因此，我们行动中所呈现出来的意识的扩张和拓展会带来稳定和充实。到处都是满满的意识，覆盖了整个身体，哪还会有困惑的空间呢？如果存有空虚，就会出现困惑。如果没有空虚，怎么可能有困惑呢？瑜伽的实践性带来的意识扩散，就像地板上的水一样自行流淌开去。意识通过习练体式和调息法在体内找到了合适的位置。这就是为什么它具有诸多稳定性的原因，并且这两个方面被称为瑜伽的感知作用方面。因为可以看见，也可以感觉到。感觉和视觉存在于感知能力中，这是建设性的，并使大脑建设性地工作，带着对知觉和意识的这种理解、并以健康的方式在身体内传播，就不会有困惑了。所以，困惑是明晰的敲门砖。

Q: Many times in life we have to face difficult situations. Could you explain, how the achieved knowledge of yoga practice can be used in this hard life situation?

问：我们一生中有很多次必须面对困难的处境。您能解释一下，如何将瑜伽习练中获得的知识运用于艰难的生活情境吗？

A: 99.9% of the world moves in emotion. Yoga is a subject which brings the emotional stability. When there is emotional stability is a felt feeling of each individual. Head is a calculative seat, it just calculates, but the experience is the mind. Mind is a part of the consciousness. Mind is the external envelope of the consciousness. So , if the envelope is open, you have to see the content. The content is the intelligence, the ego. And if the intelligence and ego which are the subtlest part of the mind are made to function, then life is quite different. So as there is vibrancy in life, so you have to face problems of life ups and downs.

答：99.9%的世人行为都是情绪化的。瑜伽是一门带来情绪稳定的学科。当情绪稳定时，每个人就会有一种感觉。头脑是一个计算的所在，它只是计算而已，而经验是心意。心意是意识的一部分，是意识的外在信封。如果信封是打开的，你必须要查看一下内容。内容就是智慧，是自我。如果心意中最精微的部分--智慧和自我发挥作用，那么生活就大不相同了。既然生活中充满了震荡，你必须面对人生中跌宕起伏的各种问题。

Q: So how we face ups and downs?

问：那么我们如何面对（生活中的）跌宕起伏呢？

A: Yoga keeps that upheaval of the emotional disturbances in a state of normal state. Yoga is as I said an emotional subject, upheavals are from the emotions. We do not distinguish between the intellectual head and the intelligence of the heart. Intelligence of the heart is the emotion, intellect there is the calculation. So, all when the emotional satisfaction is there, there is no calculation. The calculation comes because of what? The emotional want. So they are connected to each other so much that’s why Yoga begins with “ citta vritti nirodahah”. He (Sage Patanjali) has not said control your brain, it starts with the control of your mind. The mind gets attached to the external objects of the world, which is sensitive, which is not permanent, which is sensual not permanent. So the mind plays a dual role. It wants to satisfy the senses of organ, organ of actions, senses of perception on one side and also wants to please its holder, the Self. So that is why the mind plays a dual role. It wants to be with the satisfying senses. It is also wants to satisfy the Self. And Patanjali has said that Yogaasana is a physical part of yoga. See the effect of asanas, he says:” this mind which plays a dual role wants to please the senses, wants to please the Self, is made to become single. So that is free from satisfying both but becomes one.” Body is universal, therefore so many organs in the body and your blood, my blood, which your country you belong to do not change. So body is universal, God has created like that, universality and individuality of the body and the individuality of the mind. So it’s the individual which makes chemical changes in the body. So asanas guide not to disturb the chemical changes but biochemistry is balanced in the body. Because the mind is quiet, so the bioenergy is quiet. So disturbances do not take place, impediments do not come at all, so obstacles do not come. It’s the mind which creates obstacles, because it brings the chemical changes in the organic body. So the asanas guide is such a way that organic body is also kept quiet like the Self is quiet, so also as I said, water is spread evenly everywhere so there is no room for upheavals. And that is known as the emotional and intellectual stability both balanced together. There is no oscillation between the brain and the heart or the heart and the brain. A single mind by the effect of asanas. They both work as a union. That is why “ tato dvandvānabhighātah”… The dual mind becomes a single mind by the effect of asanas. So the effect has been given, but today all the people speak out, this is physical yoga. So that means they have no background of the philosophy of the ” Yoga Sutras”. Patanjali just do not use the word… how to conquer impediments, natural calamities, what we get….What has happened to the body due to our habits, habituated way of cultivation of living… So problems do come. So in order to nullify that, they have given asanas and pranayama which is the external part of yoga. So that the external body is controlled, so that you can go into the internal body.

答：瑜伽有助于情绪困扰的纷乱保持在一种正常状态。正如我所说，瑜伽是一门情感学科，纷乱来自于情感。我们没有区分理智的头脑和心灵智慧。心灵智慧是情感，理智则是计算。因此，只要情感上获得满足，就不会有计算。计算是出于什么原因呢？情感需要使然。它们之间的联系如此紧密，这就是为什么瑜伽始于“止息心意中的波动（citta vritti nirodahah）”。他（圣哲帕坦加利）没有说控制大脑，而是从控制心意开始。心意依附于世间的外部对象，它是敏感的，不是永恒的；是感官的，也不是永恒的。心意扮演着双重角色。它一方面要满足感觉器官、行动器官和感知能力，还要试图取悦其拥有者，即自我。这就是为什么心意扮演了双重角色，既希望拥有令人满意的感觉，还想要满足自我。帕坦加利曾说过瑜伽体式只是瑜伽的身体部分。当洞察到体式产生的效果，他说：“这个扮演双重角色的想要取悦于感官，也想要取悦于自我的心意，就变得单一了。这样一来就不再满足于两者，而是合二为一。”身体是普遍性的，所以身体中的各种器官，你的血液、我的血液，你所属的国家都不会改变。身体是普遍性的，上帝就是这样创造的，身体兼备普遍性和个体性，心意则呈现出个别性。是个别性在身体内产生了化学变化。体式引导着不要去干扰化学变化，而是让生物化学变化在身体内达至平衡。因为心意是安静的，生物能量也是安静的，干扰不会发生，阻碍根本不会出现，障碍也就不会到来。如果心意使有机体发生化学变化，就会制造出障碍。因此，体式的引导就是以使有机体保持安静的方式进行，如同自我处于安宁状态一般。也正如我所说，当水均匀地分布在各处，就不会存在动荡的空间。这就是所谓的情感和智力稳定，两者皆平衡在一起。大脑与心脏之间或心脏与大脑之间没有震荡。单一的心意通过体式的作用来获得。它们协同工作如同联合体。这就是为什么“从此，修习者不再被二元性所扰（tato dvandvānabhighātah）”的原因……二元心意在体式的作用下变成了单一心意。尽管这种效果已经显现出来，当下所有人却说，这只是身体层面的瑜伽。这也意味着他们没有“瑜伽经”的哲学背景。帕坦伽利只是没有使用这样的词汇……如何克服障碍、自然灾害，我们的所得……。由于我们的嗜好，习惯性的生活培养方式，导致身体发生了变化……各种问题的确就来了。为了抵消前面所述的问题，给出了体式和调息即瑜伽的外在部分。外在身体得到控制，就可以进入内在身体了。