How these five elements behave within you, will determine just about everything. First thing that we need to do is to start cleansing the five elements. If you have mastery over the elements, you not only have mastery over the body, over the mind, over the very creation. Life will happen in magical ways.

這五大元素在你內(nèi)在如何表現(xiàn)，幾乎會決定一切。我們需要做的第一件事就是開始凈化這五大元素。如果你掌握了這五大元素，你就不僅掌握了身體，掌握了頭腦，還掌握了整個造物。生命將以神奇的方式發(fā)生。

Sadhguru:This body, this very earth, the universe and the cosmos, all are just a play of five elements. This body’s composition is such that 72% of this body is water, approximately 12% is earth, 6% is air, 4% is fire and the rest is space or akash. How these five elements behave within you will determine just about everything. Bhuta means element. Bhuta Shuddhi means to become free from the taint of elements or to cleanse the element. It means to become free from the physical nature.

Sadhguru（薩古魯）：這個身體，這個地球，世界和宇宙，一切都只是五大元素的一個游戲。這個身體的組成是，72%是水，大約12%是土，6%是氣，4%是火，剩下的是空間或叫akash。這五大元素在你內(nèi)在如何表現(xiàn)，幾乎會決定一切。Bhuta的意思是元素，Bhuta Shuddhi 意味著不受元素的污染或凈化元素。它意味著擺脫了物質(zhì)本性。

Right now, the physiological and the psychological processes are having a complete grip over most human beings. What we call as our physiology is something that we accumulated. What we call as our psychological process, the whole content for this is also accumulated in the form of impressions. Between these two, who you are or existentially what is the nature of your being is completely missed. If one wants to access dimensions which are not yet in your experience, first thing that we need to do is to start cleansing the five elements, so that in the purity of the elements, you distinctly know the difference between what is physical, what is psychological and what is existential.

現(xiàn)在，生理和心理過程完全控制住了大多數(shù)人。我們所說的生理，是某些我們所積累的東西。我們所說的心理過程，其全部內(nèi)容也是以印象的方式積累起來的。在這兩者之間，你是誰，或者你存在的本質(zhì)是什么，被完全忽略了。如果一個人想要觸及尚未在自己體驗之內(nèi)的維度，我們需要做的第一件事，就是開始凈化這五大元素。這樣在純凈的五大元素中，你能清楚地知道，什么是生理的，什么是心理的，以及什么是存在的。

#1 Treat Water With Gratitude

#1 帶著感恩之情對待水

Among the five elements, water acquires the greatest significance because 72% of this body is water. If we take sufficient care about the water that we consume, not just in terms of its purity, it being bacteria-free and those kind of things, but the way the water is kept, in what kind of container you keep it, how you keep it, how you touch it, how you approach it, because there is substantial scientific evidence today to show you that a thought, an emotion, a touch, these things can change the molecular structure of the water and can greatly alter the way water behaves within your system. So, one needs to understand you are not dealing with a commodity, you are dealing with life-making material. Water is life.

在這五大元素中，水最為重要，因為身體的72%是水。如果我們對我們所飲用的水給予足夠關(guān)注的話，不僅僅關(guān)心它是否純凈，是否有細(xì)菌，以及其他類似問題，還有水的存儲方式，你用什么樣的容器存儲，你如何存儲它，你如何觸摸它，你如何對待它。因為如今已經(jīng)有大量科學(xué)證據(jù)表明，一個想法，一個情緒，一個觸碰，這些東西都能夠改變水的分子結(jié)構(gòu)，能夠極大地改變水在你系統(tǒng)內(nèi)的運(yùn)作方式。所以，人們需要明白，你不是在跟某種商品打交道，你是在和制造生命的材料打交道，水就是生命。

If you keep the water in a container which is metallic, preferably copper or an alloy of copper, and if you wash it with an organic substance and keep the water in a place where it is not touched by other smells and other substances, there is sufficient space around it and when you approach it, if you can just hold this vessel with your hands with a certain sense of gratitude and reverence because this is life-making material and then consume it, you will see it will do wonders within your system. Healthfulness and equanimity will be a natural consequence of this.

如果你把水保存在金屬容器中，最好是銅或者銅合金。并且，如果你用有機(jī)物質(zhì)清洗容器，并把水放在一個不會被其他氣味或物質(zhì)接觸到的地方，周圍留有足夠的空間。當(dāng)你靠近它時，如果你可以用手捧著容器，帶著一定的感恩和敬畏之情，因為這是制造生命的材料，然后再飲用它，你會看到它能在你的系統(tǒng)內(nèi)創(chuàng)造奇跡。健康和安寧將會是自然的結(jié)果。

#2 Stay in Touch With Earth

#2 接觸土壤

At least every day, if you can go and sit in your garden, on the earth just for half an hour, simply, talking to your friend, reading a newspaper, talking on the telephone, do whatever or if you can sit quietly, it's best. Just half an hour you sit in your garden, on the ground, you will see your health situation will change dramatically. I'm only talking about health because that's a tangible thing you can see; other things are happening but you may not be able to notice it. Many other processes are happening. So, as far as possible, try to settle down on the floor.

至少每天，如果你能去到花園里，就在地上坐半個小時，與你的朋友聊天，讀一份報紙，講電話，無論做什么都好。如果你能安靜地坐著，那就最好了。只是在你家花園的地上坐半個小時，你會看到你的健康狀況發(fā)生巨大的變化。我只是在說健康，因為那是你能看得見的東西。其他事情也在發(fā)生著，但你也許無法覺察到。很多其他的過程正在發(fā)生。所以只要有可能，試著坐在地板上。

Those of you who have very unstable bodies, that if you tend to fall sick very easily and you know, constantly those kind of things, if you just get off your cot and sleep on the floor, you will see it'll make a big difference. Just that much, just may be eighteen inches away you are, just get eighteen inches closer, you will see it'll make a big difference in terms of reorganizing the system.

那些身體狀況非常不穩(wěn)定的人，也就是你很容易生病。你知道，如果經(jīng)常這樣的話，如果你只是離開自己的小床睡到地板上，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)這樣會產(chǎn)生很大的不同。就那么多，也許你只離開18英寸，只是再靠近18英寸。你會發(fā)現(xiàn)就重新組織系統(tǒng)而言，將會有很大不同。

#3 Bring Breath to a Dynamic State

#3將呼吸帶入一個有活力的狀態(tài)

Though air represents only 6% of your body’s elemental constitution, it is the most dynamic part of the element, in terms of the transaction that happens on a minute-to-minute basis. What kind of air you breathe is definitely important and that’s well-known, but how you breathe and how consciously you breathe is equally important. Especially those of you who are living in large cities, take a walk in the park, along the lake or the river or whatever is available to you, something natural to be in touch with nature and to do something where breath will be in a dynamic state. This is not just for aerobic exercise because constant exchange of air is happening from within and without and the very intelligence in the body will take care of this that when it senses the air is pure and alive, the way the body breathes is different.

雖然氣在你身體的元素組成中只占6%，它卻是元素中最活躍的部分。就氣體交換而言，分分鐘都在發(fā)生。你呼吸著怎樣的空氣，眾所周知，這一點(diǎn)非常重要。但你如何呼吸，以及如何有意識地呼吸也同等重要。特別是對于那些住在大城市的人，在公園里散步，沿著湖邊或者河岸，或者任何你方便去到的自然區(qū)，接觸大自然，做一些讓呼吸活躍起來的事情。這不僅是為了完成有氧運(yùn)動，而是不間斷的空氣交換里里外外都在發(fā)生著，而身體的智慧會處理好這項交換。當(dāng)它感覺到空氣純凈而有生機(jī)時，身體呼吸的方式是不同的。

So, if you remain in pure air, it’s important that you bring breath to a dynamic state with a certain activity. You don’t have to do too vigorous an activity, just enough to see that you’re breathing deep enough, slightly deeper than normal is happening to you for a period of time. But on a daily basis if you’re not able to take yourself out, within the house, you can do a simple yogic practice called nadi shuddhi to cleanse the breath.

所以，如果你一直呆在純凈的空氣中，重要的是你通過某些活動將呼吸帶入一個有活力的狀態(tài)。你不需要做劇烈的運(yùn)動，只需要確保你呼吸得足夠深就夠了，在一段時間內(nèi)呼吸比正常更深一點(diǎn)。但在日常生活中，如果你無法出門去，呆在屋內(nèi)，你可以做一個簡單的瑜伽練習(xí)，叫氣脈凈化（nadi shuddhi），來凈化呼吸。

#4 Light a Fire for Health & Energy

#4 為健康和能量點(diǎn)燃一團(tuán)火

Fire accounts for 4% of your elemental makeup. If you wish to use fire, you can light a fire with an organic substance like straw or firewood, without any oil and stand facing the fire, with your hands open and keep your eyes open for three minutes, then stand with your back to it, exposing your spine for three minutes. This will cleanse your aura and bring about a new sense of resurgence in the system. This is to rekindle and reconnect the fire within with the fires outside. This is the basis of all fire-based rituals in the East. If having a fire is not very practical for you, at least a lamp with vegetable oils or ghee. You light a lamp and be around this lamp, first face the lamp and sit and then turn around and sit, so that the fire element within you gets rekindled.

火占你的元素組成4%。如果你希望運(yùn)用火，你可以用有機(jī)物質(zhì)如稻草或木材生火。不添加任何油，站著面向火焰雙手打開，保持眼睛睜開3分鐘。然后背向火焰，讓脊柱向著火焰3分鐘。這將會凈化你的靈氣光環(huán)（Aura），給系統(tǒng)帶來一個全新的復(fù)蘇感。這是用外在之火重新點(diǎn)燃和連接內(nèi)在之火。這是東方所有火供儀式的基礎(chǔ)。如果生火對你來說不太實際，至少用植物油或酥油點(diǎn)一盞燈。你點(diǎn)燃燈后，待在燈的周圍。先面對它坐著，然后背對它坐。這樣你內(nèi)在的火元素會被重新點(diǎn)燃。

#5 Tap Into the Akashik Intelligence

#5 利用空智慧

The fifth and the most expansive dimension of the elemental composition is akash or etheric space. This has a certain intelligence. The nature, quality and the power of your life essentially is determined by how much access can you find into the akashic intelligence. As I said, this is an expansive part of the elemental composition that means there is no limit. There is only that much water, there is only that much air, that much earth and that much fire but the akashic dimension is a limitless possibility. If you find access, in a limitless manner, both your perception and intelligence can grow.

第五個也是元素組成中最富延展性維度，是空（akash）或阿卡西。它有其特定的智慧。你生命的本質(zhì)、品質(zhì)和力量本質(zhì)上決定于你能接觸到多少空的智慧。就像我說的，這是元素組成中一個具有延展性的部分，這意味著它是沒有邊際的。只有那么多水，那么多氣，那么多土，那么多火。而空維度是一個無限的可能性。如果你能接觸到它，你的感知和智慧都會無限地增長。

One simple process you can do to find more access to akash or the akashic intelligence is, after sunrise, before the sun crosses a thirty-degree angle, look up at the sky once and bow down to akash for holding you and this planet in place. After the sun crosses thirty degrees, sometime during the day, anytime, look up and bow down again. After the sunset, within the 40 minutes after sunset, look up at the sky and once again bow down. You are not bowing to any imaginary gods up there, just to the etheric space around us which is holding everything that we are in place. If you get the akash to co-operate with your life energies, life will happen in magical ways. An intelligence that you have never thought possible will become yours.

一個你可以接觸到更多空或空間智慧的簡單方式是，日出之后，在太陽升到和地平線成30度角之前，仰望天空，向空（akash）鞠躬，感恩它承載著你和這個地球。在太陽升過30度角之后，白天的某個時間，任何時間，再次仰望天空并鞠躬。在日落之后，日落后40分鐘內(nèi)，仰望天空，并再次鞠躬。你不是在對任何假想的上面的神鞠躬，只是對我們身邊的以太空間，因為它承載著周圍的一切。如果你能讓空（akash）與你的生命能量合作，生命將會以神奇的方式發(fā)生。你從未想到過的智慧將會成為你的。

In terms of health, well-being, perception, knowing, everything, enlightenment, everything is handled if only you know how to keep these five elements properly. The most fundamental practice in the yogic system, which is the basis of everything else that we are doing is called as Bhuta Shuddhi. All other yogic practices are an extract from the pancha bhuta system of yoga. If you do a certain level of cleansing for the elements, then you attain to what's called as bhuta siddhi that means you have mastery over the elements. If you have mastery over the elements, you not only have mastery over the body, over the mind, over the very creation.

無論健康、幸福、感知、知曉、萬事萬物，開悟，只要你知道如何恰當(dāng)?shù)卣乒苓@五大元素，一切就都搞定了。在瑜伽體系中最基本的練習(xí)，也是我們正在做的其他一切的基礎(chǔ)，叫五大元素凈化（Bhuta Shuddhi）。所有其他瑜伽練習(xí)都是對瑜伽中五大元素體系的提煉。如果你對五大元素進(jìn)行某種程度的清理，然后你達(dá)成了所謂的bhuta siddhi，那意味著你掌握了五大元素。如果你掌握了五大元素，你就不僅掌握了身體，掌握了頭腦，還掌握了造物本身。

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