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Verse 121 –
Dhāraṇā 95(Lakshmanjoo) / 96(Jaideva Singh) / 96(Paul Reps) / VBT 29(Osho)


भक्त्युद्रेकाद्विरक्तस्य यादृशी जायते मतिः ।
सा शक्तिः शाङ्करी नित्यं भावयेत्तां ततः शिवः ।।१२१।।
bhaktyudrekādviraktasya yādṛśī jāyate matiḥ /
sā śaktiḥ śāṅkarī nityaṁ bhāvayettām tataḥ śivaḥ // 121 // [Lakshmanjoo]

The sort of intuition (mati) that emerges through the intensity of devotion in one who is perfectly detached is known as śakti of śaṅkara. One should contemplate on it perpetually. Then he becomes Śiva Himself. [Jaideva Singh]

DEVOTION FREES. [Paul Reps · Osho]

誠敬可得自在。 [徐進夫]

奉獻使人解脱。 [謙達那]

奉獻而自由。 [桑雅]


[譯解比對]
Lakshmanjoo, Jaideva Singh, 和Silburn皆將bhakti, 奉獻的對象指明為神, 即經文中的Śiva (tataḥ Śivaḥ), 且需持以棄俗, 拋開世間種種執著的態度. 此條件滿足後三人都談到經文裡的mati, 動態式的直觀. Silburn的說明為此介於智性與成道之間的mati, 可再轉成citi即已不受激情束縛的純淨意識, 最後顯現出śakti—-Rudra(亦即Śiva)的仁善能量.
Lorin Roche和Osho則從愛談起. Roche認為在Bhakti yoga裡各種人間性質的情感都可以與神產生關聯, 包括激越情愛, 平等友誼, 甚至是將自己當作了父母, 神當作了孩子般的關照與呵護.
奧修則細述了感覺的心靈, 無須證明的信任, 以及自我隱沒並讓另一個人成為中心—-直到能為對方而活而死. 此與藏傳修心系統的自他交換頗為吻合. 文中舉出Meera及Ramakrishna, 可謂Bhakti虔信派, 宗教奉獻情感的極佳例證.


[各家原文與譯解]
Lakshmanjoo
भक्त्युद्रेकाद्विरक्तस्य
यादृशी जायते मतिः ।
सा शक्तिः शाङ्करी नित्यं
भावयेत्तां ततः शिवः ।।१२१।।
bhaktyudrekādviraktasya
yādṛśī jāyate matiḥ /
sā śaktiḥ śāṅkarī nityaṁ
bhāvayettām tataḥ śivaḥ // 121 //

There is another technique. That the intensity of love for God, the intensity [of devotion] ——bhakti udrekā.
When there is the intensity of love, you can’t understand anything else in this world. When there is the intensity of love for God, you won’t recognize Viresh, you won’t recognize John, you won’t recognize your body, you won’t recognize anything in this world. Viraktasya, vairāgya (detachment ) appears from all sides except for that intensity of love of God
Bhakti udrekā, by the intensity of love for the Lord, viraktasva, when detachment rises in your mind, yādṛśī jāyate matiḥ, and that position of your intellectual cycle at that time, the state of that intellectual cycle of yours, is [no longer] intellectual, is [no longer] the element of intellect in you, sā śaktiḥ śāṅkarī, that is the energy of God consciousness. That intellect is transformed in the energy of God consciousness, and you should perceive that this energy is the real energy. [By] detachment, being detached from all sides because of the intensity of love towards the Lord, bhāvayet you will find out that tataḥśivaḥ, you will become one with Śiva.
This is śāmbhavopäya, the technique of śāmbhavopāva.

Jaideva Singh
भक्त्युद्रेकाद्विरक्तस्य यादृशी जायते मतिः ।
सा शक्तिः शाङ् करी नित्यं भावयेत्तां ततः शिवः ।।१२१।।
Bhaktyudrekād viraktasya yādṛśī jāyate matiḥ /
Sā śaktiḥ śāṅkarī nityam bhāvayet tām tataḥ śivaḥ // 121
The sort of intuition (mati) that emerges through the intensity of devotion in one who is perfectly detached is known as the śakti of śāṅkara. One should contemplate on it perpetually. Then he becomes Śiva Himself.

One who is perfectly detached i.e. is not attached to sensuous pleasures and is devoted to God develops mati. The word mati is used in a technical sense here. It means pure spiritual intuition that is dynamic. This mati is full of beneficent power (śāṅkarī śakti) that can transform and consecrate life. That is why this dhāraṇā recommends contemplation on mati.
There are four steps in this dhāraṇā. (1) one’s value of life has to be totally changed. He should be completely detached from sensuous pleasures and trinkets of life. (2) He should be devoted to God. (3) Through the above two, the mind of the aspirant will become purified, and then will emerge mati which is spiritual intuition full of the power to transform life. She can remove all obstacles in the path of the aspirant. (4) The aspirant should perpetually contemplate on this mati (nityam bhāvayet tām). She will completely transform his life, and then his mind will be dissolved in Śiva (tataḥ Śivaḥ).
It should be borne in mind that bhakti or devotion does not mean simply offering of flowers and burning incense. It means viewing God in all life and dedication of oneself to the Divine in word, thought and deed.
This is Śāmbhava upāya.

Lilian Silburn
Mati, idée intense purement spirituelle, étrangère au discours, se trouve entre l’intellect (buddhi) aux idées générales et l’illumination (bodha) qu’elle prépare. En vertu de son ardeur exclusive on peut rapprocher mati de citi, conscience dynamique et pure d’un ètre délesté de la charge de ses passions. Dès qu’on s’est détaché des biens de ce monde par une adoration intense, l’intuition qui surgit alors n’a rien de passif, elle est pleine de puissance (vīrya) et c’est elle qui par son efficace écartera tous les obstacles. Elle se confond alors avec la śakti, l’énergie bienfaisante de Rudra, laquelle réalise l’identification à Śiva si l’on se consacre entièrement à elle.
Mati, an intense purely spiritual notion, foreign to discourse, lies between the intellect (buddhi) in general ideas and the enlightenment (bodha) which it prepares. By virtue of its exclusive ardor we can bring mati to citi, dynamic and pure consciousness of a being relieved of the burden of his passions. As soon as one has detached oneself from the goods of this world by an intense adoration, the intuition which arises then has nothing passive, it is full of power (vīrya) and it is she who by its efficiency will remove all the obstacles. It then merges with śakti, the beneficent energy of Rudra, which achieves identification with Śiva if one devotes oneself entirely to her.
Nous verrons que l’adoration digne de ce nom ne consiste pas on offrandes mais en un amour profond et total pour lequel rien d’autre ne compte. Il arrive que l’adorant s’absorbe si complètement dans l’objet de son adoration, que celui-ci disparaisse à son tour et que seul demeure le pur Sujet, Śiva. Adoré et adorant ne forment alors plus qu’un.
We will see that worship worthy of the name does not consist of offerings but of a deep and total love for which nothing else matters. It happens that the adorer becomes so completely absorbed in the object of his adoration that this in turn disappears and only the pure Subject, Śiva, remains. Adored and adoring are then one.
Ces expériences jalonnent la voie de l’énergie car pareille adoration, toute spirituelle, met en oeuvre l’énergie la plus haute.
These experiences mark out the path of energy because such worship, all spiritual, uses the highest energy.

Daniel Odier
The intuition which springs from the intensity of passionate devotion flows into space, frees you and lets you attain to the domain of Shiva/Shakti.

Lorin Roche
bhakty udrekād viraktasya yā dṛśī jāyate matiḥ |
sā śaktiḥ śāṅkarī nityam bhavayet tāṁ tataḥ śivaḥ || 121 ||
bhakti-ud-rekaat vi-raktasya yaa drishee jayaate matih
saa shakti-shaankaree nityam bhaavayet taam tatah shivah

During meditation you will find yourself thinking of the people you love. You will be attending to the texture—the tantra—of your relationships and feeling what is there. This is your heart vibrating and pulsing with your connection. You can transcend on bhakti, on love and devotion.
When you love someone, you carry them inside you and will think of them all the time, including during pranayama, shavasana, and meditation, even if you try not to. You can’t help but be bothered by your love. Your awareness is sneaking off to practice bhakti yoga and will do so no matter what style of class you are in, no matter what you call your meditation system. In the bhakti yoga stories, otherwise honorable and diligent women (the gopis) are always getting up in the middle of the night and slipping away to worship Krishna down by the river. In daily life, attention steals moments of bhakti here and there to muse about your lover, baby, cat, dog, or creative project. Part of love is worrying about people, praying for them, attempting to find words to say what you feel. All of this is welcome in meditation.
Loving any one being, one person, expresses your local part of the infinite universe. This is a tangible thing you can do, an act of power and creativity. The everyday practice here is to know that no matter who or what you love, this love is yoga in its most fundamental form: linking, connecting, valuing the other, honoring the relationship. There are many kinds of love, many textures of relationship, and each moves and challenges us in a different way. There is erotic love and all those wild energies of sexual devotion. There is friendship, parental love, family love, unconditional love. Every form of love is sacred; every relationship, temporary as it may be, teaches us about eternity. Bhakti yoga says that you can be in an erotic, passionate relationship with God; you can be friends and equals with God; you can even feel parental and protective of God. All rivers flow to the ocean.

Osho
The fifth technique is very simple in one sense and the most difficult in another, and it is only of two words. The fifth technique says, DEVOTION FREES.
Just two words: DEVOTION FREES. It is simply one word really, because FREES is the consequence of devotion. What is meant by devotion? In VIGYANA BHAIRAVA TANTRA, there are two types of techniques. One is for those who are intellectually oriented, scientifically oriented, and another is for those who are heart oriented, emotion oriented, poetically oriented. And there are only two types of minds: the scientific mind and the poetic mind—-and these are poles apart. They meet nowhere, and they cannot meet. Sometimes they run parallel, but still, there is no meeting.
Sometimes it happens in a single individual that he is a poet and a scientist. Rarely, but sometimes it happens that he is both a poet and a scientist. Then he has a split personality. He is really two persons, not one. When he is a poet, he forgets the scientist completely; otherwise the scientist will be disturbing. And when he is a scientist, he has to forget the poet completely and move into another world with another arrangement of concepts – ideas, logic, reason, mathematics.
When he moves to the world of poetry, the mathematics is no more there—-music is there. Concepts are no more there: words are there – but liquid, not solid. One word flows into another, and one word can mean many things or it may not mean anything. The grammar is lost; only the rhythm remains. It is a different world.
Thinking and feeling—-these are the two types, basic types. The first technique I taught was for a scientific mind. The second technique, DEVOTION FREES, is for a feeling type. Remember to find out your type. And no type is higher or lower. Do not think that the intellectual type is higher or the feeling type is higher—-no! They are simply types. No one is higher or lower. So just think factually what is your type.
This second technique is for the feeling type. Why? Because devotion is toward something else and devotion is a blind thing. In devotion the other becomes more important than you. It is a trust. The intellectual cannot trust anybody; he can only criticize. He cannot trust. He can doubt, but he cannot trust. And if sometimes some intellectual comes to trust, it is never authentic. First he tries to convince himself about his trust; it is never authentic. He finds proofs, arguments, and when he is satisfied that the arguments help, the proofs help, then he trusts. But he has missed the point, because trust is not argumentative and trust is not based on proofs. If proofs are there, then there is no need of trust.
You do not believe in the sun, you do not believe in the sky – you know. How can you believe in the sun rising? If someone asks what is your belief about the sun rising, you do not have to say, ”I believe in it. I am a great believer.” You say, ”The sun is rising and I know it.” No question of belief or disbelief. Is there someone who disbelieves in the sun? There is no one. Trust means a jump into the unknown without any proofs.
It is difficult—-difficult for the intellectual type, because the whole thing becomes absurd, foolish. First proofs must be there. If you say, ”There is a God. Surrender yourself to God,” first God has to be proven. But then God becomes a theorem—-of course proven, but useless. God must remain unproven; otherwise he is of no use, because then trust is meaningless. If you believe in a proven God, then your God is just a theorem of geometry. No one believes in the theorems of Euclid—-there is no need, they can be proven. That which can be proven cannot be made a basis of trust.
One of the most mysterious Christian saints, Tertullian, said, ”I believe in God because he is absurd.” That is right. That is the attitude of the feeling type. He says, ”Because he cannot be proven, that is why I believe in him.” This statement is illogical, irrational, because a logical statement must be like this: ”These are the proofs of God; therefore I believe in him.” And he says, ”Because there are no proofs, and no argument can prove that God is, therefore I believe in him.” And he is right in a way, because trust means a jump into the unknown without any reasons. Only a feeling type can do that.
Forget devotion, first understand love; then you will be able to understand devotion. You fall in love. Why do we say ”falling in love”? Nothing falls—-just your head. What falls in love but your head? You fall down from the head. That is why we say ”falling in love”—-because the language is created by intellectual types. For them love is a lunacy, love is madness. ; one has fallen in love. It means, now you can expect anything from him…..now he is mad, now no reasoning will help, you cannot reason with him. Can you reason with someone who is in love? People try. People try, but nothing can be proven.
You have fallen in love with someone. Everyone says, ”That person is not worthwhile,” or ”You are entering a dangerous terrain,” or ”You are proving yourself foolish; you can find a better partner.” But nothing will help, no reasoning will help. You are in love—-now reason is useless. Love has its own reasoning. We say ”falling in love.” It means now your behavior will be irrational.
Look at two lovers, at their behavior, their communication. It becomes irrational. They start using baby talk. Why? Even a great scientist, when he falls in love, will use baby language. Why not use a highly developed, technological language? Why use this baby talk? Because highly technological language is of no use.
One of my friends married a girl. The girl was Czechoslovakian. She did know a little English, however, and this man knew a little Czechoslovakian; they got married. He was a highly educated man, a professor in a university, and the girl was also a professor. But the man said to me – I was staying with him – ”It is very difficult because I know only technological Czech, technological terminology, and she also only knows technological English, so we cannot have baby talk. So it is strange. Our love is just that somewhere on the surface we feel; it cannot move deep. The language becomes the barrier. I can talk as a professor – as far as my subject is concerned I can talk about it – , and she can talk about her subject. But love has been neither of our’s subject.”
So why do you fall into baby talk? Because that was your first love experience, with your mother. Those words that you uttered first were love words. They were not head-oriented, they came from the heart; they belonged to feeling. They had a different quality.
So even when you have a very developed language, when you love you again fall back – you fall back into baby talk. Those words are different. They do not belong to this category of the mind; they belong to the heart. They may not be so expressive, so meaningful. Still, they are more expressive and more meaningful – but their meaning is of a different dimension altogether. Only if you are very deeply in love will you fall silent. Then you cannot talk with your beloved, or you can talk just by the way, but really, there is no talk.
If the love goes deep, words become useless; you remain silent. If you cannot remain silent with your beloved, know well there is no love – because it is very difficult to live in silence with someone you are not in love with. With a stranger you immediately start talking. When you are riding in a train or in a bus you immediately start talking, because to sit by the side of a stranger silently is very difficult, awkward. There is no other bridge, so unless you create a language bridge there is no bridge.
No inner bridge is possible with that stranger. You are closed in yourself and he is closed in himself, and two enclosures are just side by side. There is every fear of colliding and of danger, so you create a bridge. You start talking about the weather or about anything, any nonsense that gives a feeling that you are bridged and you are communicating. Two lovers will fall silent, and when two lovers start talking again you can know well that the love has disappeared; they have become strangers.
So go and look… Wives and husbands, whenever they are alone, they will talk about anything. And they both know, they both are aware that there is no need to talk, but it is so difficult to remain silent. So anything, any trivia will do, but talk so that you can have the feeling that communication is there. But two lovers will fall silent. Language will disappear because language belongs to reason. First it will become a baby talk, and then this will disappear. Then they will be silently in communication. What is their communication? It is irrational. They feel attuned to a different dimension of existence, and they feel happy in that attunement. And if you ask them to prove what is their happiness, they cannot prove it.
No lover has been able to prove up to now why he is happy in love. Why? Because love implies much suffering. Still, lovers are happy. Love has a deep suffering, because when you become one with someone it is always difficult. Two minds become one… it is not only two bodies becoming one. That is the difference between sex and love. If only two bodies become one, it is not very difficult and there is no suffering. It is one of the easiest things; any animal can do it. It is easy. But when two people are in love it is very difficult, because two minds have to dissolve, two minds have to be absent. Only then is the space created, and love can flower.
No one reasons about love; no one can prove that love gives happiness. No one can even prove that love exists. And there are scientists, behaviorists, followers of Watson and Skinner, who say love is just an illusion. There is no love; you are just in an illusion. You feel that you are in love, but there is no love, you are just dreaming. And no one can prove they are wrong. They say that love is just a hallucination, a psychedelic experience. Nothing real, just body chemistry influencing you, just hormones, chemicals, influencing your behavior and giving a false well-being to you. No one can prove them wrong.
But the miracle is this, that even a Watson will fall in love. Even a Watson will fall in love, knowing well that this is just a chemical affair. And even a Watson will be happy. But love cannot be proven, it is so inner and subjective. What happens in love? The other becomes important – more important than you. You become the periphery and he becomes the center.
Logic always remains self-centered, mind always remains ego-centered: I am the center and everything just encircles around me – for me, but I am the center. This is how reason works. If you move with reason too much, you will come to the conclusion to which Berkeley came. He said, ”Only I exist, everything else is just an idea in the mind. How can I prove that you are there, sitting there just before me? How can I prove reasonably, rationally, that you are really there? You may be just a dream. I may be just dreaming and talking; you may not be there at all. How can I prove to myself that really you are there? I can, of course, touch you, but I can touch you even in a dream. And even in a dream I feel it when I touch someone. I can hit you and you will scream, but even in a dream, if I hit someone the dream figure screams. So how can I make a distinction that my audience here, just now, is not a dream but a reality? It may be just a fiction.”
Go to a madhouse, and you will find people sitting alone talking. To whom are they talking? I may be talking to no one. How can I prove rationally that you are really here? So if reason goes to the extreme, to the very logical extreme, then only I remain and everything else becomes a dream. This is how reason works.
Quite the contrary is the path of the heart. I become the mystery and you—-thou, the other, the beloved—-become the real. If you move to the very extreme, then it becomes devotion. If your love comes to such an extreme point that you forget completely that you are, you have no notion of yourself and only the other remains, that is devotion.
Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway reality, sex is the only real thing. Love has two possibilities: either it falls into sex and becomes a bodily thing, or it rises into devotion and becomes a thing of the spirit. Love is just in between. Just below it is the abyss of sex, and beyond it is the open sky—-the infinite sky of devotion.
If your love grows deeper, the other becomes more and more significant—-so significant that you begin to call the other your god. That is why Meera goes on calling Krishna, God. No one can see Krishna, and Meera cannot prove that Krishna is there, but she is not interested in proving it at all. She has made that point, Krishna, her love object. And remember, whether you make a real person your love object or whether it is just your imagination, it makes no difference, because the whole transformation comes through devotion, not through the beloved—-remember this. Krishna may not be there at all; it is irrelevant. For the lover, it is irrelevant.
For Radha, Krishna was there in reality. For Meera, Krishna was not there in reality. That is why Meera is a greater devotee than Radha. And even Radha would become jealous of Meera, because for Radha the real person was there. It is not so difficult to feel Krishna’s reality when he is present. But when Krishna is no more there, Meera alone is living in a room and talking to Krishna, and living for him who is nowhere. For her, he is everything and all. She cannot prove it; it is irrational. But she took a jump and she became transformed. Devotion freed her.
I want to emphasize the fact that it is not a question of whether Krishna is there or not. It is not! This feeling that Krishna is there, this total feeling of love, this total surrender, this losing oneself into one who may be or may not be, this LOSING itself is the transformation. Suddenly one is purified—-totally purified – because when the ego is not there you cannot be impure in any way. Because ego is the seed of all impurity.
The feeling of ego is the root of all madness. For the feeling world, for the world of the devotee, ego is the disease. Ego dissolves, and it dissolves in only one way; there is no other way. There is only one way: the other becomes so important, so significant, that by and by you fade out and disappear. One day you are no more; just a consciousness of the other remains.
And when you are no more, the other is also not the other, because he is the other only when you are there. When the “I” disappears, the “thou” also disappears. In love you take the first step—-the other becomes important. You remain, but for certain moments there may be a peak when you are not. Those are rare peaks of love, but ordinarily you remain and the lover is there. When the lover becomes more important than you, you can die for him or her. If you can die for someone, there is love. The other has become the meaning of your life.
Only if you can die for someone can you live for someone. If you cannot die for someone, you cannot live for someone. Life acquires a meaning only through death. In love, the other has become important, but you are still there. In some higher peaks of communication you may disappear, but you will come back; this will be only for moments. So lovers have glimpses of devotion. That is why in India the beloved used to call her lover her god. Only in peaks does the other become divine, and the other becomes divine only when you are not. This can grow. And if you make it a SADHANA—-a spiritual practice—-if you make it an inner search, if you are not just enjoying love but transforming yourself through love, then it becomes devotion.
In devotion you surrender yourself completely. And this surrender can be to a god who may not be in the sky or who may be, or to a master who may not be awakened or who may be, or to a beloved who may not be worthwhile or who may be – that is irrelevant. If you can allow yourself to dissolve for the other, you will be transformed.
Devotion frees. That is why we have glimpses of freedom only in love. When you are in love, you have a subtle freedom. This is paradoxical because everyone else will see that you have become a slave. If you are in love with someone, those around you will think that you both have become slaves to each other. But you will have glimpses of freedom.
Love is freedom. Why? Because ego is the bondage; there is no other bondage. You may be in a prison and you cannot escape. If your beloved comes into the prison, the prison disappears that very moment. The walls are there still, but they do not imprison you. Now you can forget them completely. You can dissolve into each other and you can become for each other a sky in which to fly. The prison has disappeared; it is no more there. And you may be under the open sky without love, totally free, untethered, but you are in a prison because you have nowhere to fly. This sky will not do.
Birds fly in that sky, but you cannot. You need a different sky—-the sky of consciousness. Only the other can give you that sky, the first taste of it. When the other opens for you and you move into the other, you can fly.
Love is freedom, but not total. If love becomes devotion, then it becomes total freedom. It means surrendering yourself completely. So those who are of the feeling type, this sutra is for them: DEVOTION FREES.
Take Ramakrishna… If you look at Ramakrishna you will think that he is just a slave to the goddess Kali, to Mother Kali. He cannot do anything without her permission; he is just like a slave. But no one was more free than him. When he was appointed for the first time as priest in Dakshineshwar, at the temple, he started behaving strangely. The committee, the trustees gathered, and they said, “Throw this man out. He is behaving undevotionally.” This happened because first he would smell a flower and then the flower would be put at the feet of the goddess. That is against the ritual. A smelled flower cannot be offered to the divine—-it has become impure.
First he would taste the food which was made for the offering, and then he would offer it. And he was the priest so the trustees asked him, ”What are you doing? This cannot be allowed.” He said, ”Then I will leave this post. I will move out of the temple, but I cannot offer food to my Mother without tasting it. My mother used to taste… whenever she would prepare something, she would taste it first and then only would she give it to me. And I cannot offer a flower without smelling it first. So I can go out, and you cannot stop me, you cannot prevent me. I will go on offering it anywhere, because my Mother is everywhere; she is not confined in your temple. So wherever I will be, I will be doing the same thing.”
It happened that someone, some Mohammedan, told him, “If your Mother is everywhere, then why not come to the mosque?” He said, “Okay, I am coming.” He remained there for six months. He forgot Dakshineshwar completely; he was in a mosque. Then his friend said, “Now you can go back.” He said, “She is everywhere.” So one may think that Ramakrishna is a slave, but his devotion is such that now the beloved is everywhere.
If you are nowhere, the beloved will be everywhere. If you are somewhere, then the beloved will be nowhere.

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