日蝕的影響 - The effect of eclipses!

Guruji, can you comment on the moon and sun and the eclipses that everyone is talking about?

古儒吉，您是否能為大家在談論的日月及日蝕發表意見呢？

Sri Sri: Yes, planets have an impact on us. Just as they have an impact on water, they impact us as well as our bodies have 70 percent of the water element. The mind, water, and planets are all intimately connected. The macro and micro cosmos are connected. The moon affects the mind, doesn’t it? That’s why people who go crazy are called lunatics. And during the full moon and new moon, people who are crazy become crazier.

古儒吉：是的，星球對我們是具有影響的。正如同它們對水的影響，我們身上有百分之七十的水元素而其影響亦相同。心智、水以及行星都有著緊密連結。巨大的及微小的宇宙是相連結的。月亮影響心智，不是嗎？也之所以為什麼我們稱那些瘋狂的人為lunatics (lunatics的字根-Luna為拉丁文月亮之意)，而在滿月及新月期間，瘋狂的人會變得更為瘋狂。

Those who think they are not crazy, become crazier. Definitely, planets impact the mind, impact the intellect, and impact the body.
But if you are meditating, doing pranayamas and all these practices, singing, you enhance the good effect. It’s not that all the effects of the planets are bad. There are good effects as well as bad, both. Good benefits of the cosmos get enhanced. During the eclipse period, it is said you should not eat. Even two-three hours before the eclipse, you should not eat. During the eclipse, people say it is a good time to meditate and pray. It is considered a very auspicious time. It is said if you meditate during an eclipse, the impact is almost 100 times. A meditation during an eclipse is considered much more powerful than 100 days of meditation. So, the eclipse period is a good time for meditation.

那些認為他們不瘋狂的人，變得更為瘋狂。當然，行星影響心智，影響智能，同時影響身體。
但是如果你靜坐，進行調息法與所有的練習、吟唱，你便增加好的影響。並不是所有行星的影響都是壞的。跟壞的影響一樣同時也有好的影響。在日蝕期間，有個說法是你應該禁食。即使是日蝕前二到三小時，你都不應該吃東西。在日蝕期間，人們說那是最佳的靜坐及祈禱時間。那被認定是非常吉利的時段。這指出如果你在日蝕時靜坐，那影響力是一百倍。在日蝕時靜心比連續一百天的靜心效力更強。所以，日蝕時是很好的靜心時間。

Everything is in alignment, all the planets are in one row. The Sun, Moon and Earth align themselves. And that is a good time for the mind, body and spirit to align. And this happens every year. Three eclipse happen every year. Yet this year the eclipses are all happening one after another. This phenomenon is happening after a long time – it is the first time after World War II.

一切都在調整，所有行星排成一列。太陽、月亮及地球各自對齊。而這對心智而言是一個好時機，身體及心靈整合一致。而這每年都會發生。三個日蝕每年都會發生。然而今年日蝕相繼發生。這種現象過了很久才發生 – 自第二次世界大戰以來的第一次。

So, there could be bad or good impact also. Nature may go under a lot of turbulences and weather changes: more flooding and more rains. You see, this is winter-summer here. It is cold, it is unusual. At this time, we are supposed to be using fans, but the weather is changing. Similarly, people’s mind can go crazy, chatting. Domestic conflicts and conflicts between countries are possible.

所以，那可能會是壞或好的影響。自然可能在許多的動盪及氣候變遷後轉壞；更多的洪水及大雨。你看，這個現在這冬夏換季。非常的冷，這不自然。在這時節，我們應該要使用電風扇，但是氣候在變遷。相同的，人們的心智會變得瘋狂，風言閒語。國內及國與國間的衝突可能會發生。

Yet, there is nothing to be too alarmed or worried about. We go steadily and we grab this opportunity to enrich our spiritual growth.

然而，並沒有什麼好擔憂或是煩惱的。我們保持穩定同時我們抓住這個機會來擴大我們靈性的成長。

You see, if it is in the middle of the night, you don’t have to wake up and sit and meditate. Solar eclipse must be before sunset and after sunrise. Chanting Om Namah Shivaya is considered very powerful, auspicious during the eclipse time. That’s called the Maha Mantra, the Great Mantra. And during eclipse time, the effect of the mantra is very, very powerful.

你看，如果那發生在半夜，你不需要坐起來靜坐。日蝕必須發生在日出後及日落前。在日蝕時唱誦嗡哪嘛希瑪亞被認定是吉利同時效果十分強大。那被稱之為馬哈真言。而在日蝕期間，真言的影響非常、非常有力。

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar