問：你說過負面情緒和外在環境沒有什麼關係，只是缺乏生命能量。但是如果說，你失去了一個親愛的人，你覺得沮喪憂鬱，那是非常自然的，即使你充滿了生命能量。這意味著外在環境是會影響我們的感覺的。請說明一下。

古儒吉：外在環境確實會有影響，因為你並不是一座孤島，即使你是一座孤島，海洋也總是會不斷地去碰觸你、去與你連結，海浪沖刷著你的海岸，你不是被隔絕的。你是整體的一部分，所以確定的是，任何在你周遭發生的，不管是發生在你親近的人，或只是你周圍的人，或甚至是你鄰居身上的事，它對你一定是有影響。但是這些影響都是很短暫的。不要以為它們會永遠在那裡，沒有人會一直以同樣的強度悲傷難過。事實上，你會驚訝地了解，你無論如何都可以找到力量及勇氣，去處理一切，並且讓自己繼續走下去。

生命不斷前進，所以事情也不斷地前進，不要想去與之對抗。假如你難過，就難過；跟著那經驗完完全全地共處幾分鐘或幾天，那將會讓你明瞭，瞧，你也終將要死。你以為你會一輩子不死嗎？有人過世了，你也終將走到那一步，只是時間問題，誰曉得？我們活在一個世界裡，好像我們都不會死，沒有人會死的樣子。因此當有人死亡時，這件事會驚嚇到我們的系統，它喚醒了我們。喔，這是真理嗎？ㄜ，這就是結局嗎？這就是將會發生的事嗎？然後你會看到，你所有的家具、車子、房子、銀行裡的存款，一切都還會留在這裡，你的身體也會留在這裡，但你不會，那你將更能自在暢快地歡笑、微笑。一個重擔從你身上被拿了下來。

這就是結局了。你為什麼要擔心呢？你可以使用同樣的情況，你不是用它來讓自己沮喪，就是讓自己清醒。看著它，你將在知識中活動，在覺知中活動。而你的心及頭腦都將變得更加明亮閃耀。（取自古儒吉所著《Know your Mind》p.p.130-132） 

(學琴老師翻譯 美修老師分享) 

Q: You have said that negative emotions have nothing to do with external circumstances but with lack of prana. But let’s say if you bear a loss of a loved person, it would be natural for you to get depressed, even if you have plenty of prana. That would imply that external circumstances will have some impact on our feelings, please comment.

Sri Sri: Any external circumstance does have an impact ⋯⋯because you are not an isolated island. Even if you as an island, the ocean always touches, connects you, the waves lash on your shores. You are not isolated. You are part of the whole, so definitely if anything happens in your environment, whether to someone who is near and dear to you, or to someone who is just there around you, or even your neighbours, it will definitely affect you. But these effects are short lived. Don’t think that will be there forever. No-one can ever be sad to the same degree throughout. In fact you’d be shocked to know that you somehow got the strength and courage to manage all that and moved along.
 

Life moves ahead. So thongs will move ahead. Don’t try to fight it out. If you are sad, just be sad. Be with that experience for a few minutes or few days, totally. That will give you the realization, see you are also going to be dead. You think you are going to be here permanently? Somebody passed away, you’re also going to go there. It’s only matter of few years, who knows? We live in this world as though we are never going to die and nobody ever will die. And when someone dies it shocks our system, it wakes us up. Oh is this the truth? Ah, this is the end, is this what’s going to happen? Then you see that all the furniture, all the cars, all the houses, all the money in your banks, and everything will remain here, your body also and you won’t be there. Then you are able to laugh more freely, smile. A load is lifted off you.

This is the end. Why do you have to worry. You can use the same situation either you can use it to get depressed or when you wake up and look at it, you will move in knowledge, you’ll move in awareness, you’ll become much brilliant, both in your heart and in your head.