Sadhguru explains that unless classical yoga becomes available in a widespread manner in the next 15 to 30 years, human capability could go downhill.
薩古魯解釋道，除非古典瑜伽在未來15到30年內被廣泛傳播，否則人類的能力可能會走下坡路。
Sadhguru: As human beings, we can do so many different activities. But whatever the nature of our activity, in today’s world, even hard-nosed businessmen are talking about impact, not profit. “Impact” is a crude way of saying, “We want to touch someone’s life.” Whether business people are talking about impact, or you are forming a personal relationship with someone, essentially, somewhere, you want to break the boundaries with someone for some time.
Sadhguru（薩古魯）：作為人類，我們可以做很多不同的事情。但無論我們活動的性質如何，在當今世界，即使是精明的商人也在談論影響力，而不是利潤。“影響力”是一種說“我們想要碰觸他人生命”的粗淺表達。無論是商界人士談論的影響力，還是你在與某人建立私人關係，本質上，在某個層面上，你都想要打破與他人的界限一段時間。
To be a yogi means to be determined to obliterate the boundaries of your individuality. In some way, you want to erase the lines that separate you from the rest of the universe. Yoga means to approach it in a scientific way. You do not have to do any great amount of activity; you do not have to indulge in sexuality; you do not have to get entangled in anything. If you consciously erase your boundaries, simply sitting here, you can experience a trillion times more than with any activity, and it is just fantastic. Yoga means to obliterate your boundaries.
成為一位瑜伽士意味著你決心要消除你個體的界限。在某種程度上，你想要消除那些把你和宇宙隔開的邊線。瑜伽就是用科學化的方法去實現這一點。你不需要做大量的活動，你不必沉溺於性之中，你不必糾纏於任何事之中——如果你有意識地消除你的界限，只是坐在這裡，你能體驗到的東西比做任何事所體驗到的都要多萬億倍，並且這真的很美妙。瑜伽意味著消除你的界限。
Desperate Attempts
不顧一切去嘗試
All the human nonsense that you see on the planet is only because of concretized boundaries. They have concretized their boundaries so rigidly that if two people meet, they will clash. Yoga does not mean twisting and turning; it is not a weight loss program or stress relief program. It means you understood the stupidity of “me versus the universe.” It is absolutely idiotic to be in competition with that which is the source of your life. When you realize that, you are moving towards yoga.
你在這個星球上看到的所有人類的荒唐都只是因為固化的邊界。他們讓自己的界限如此僵固，以至於如果兩個人相遇，他們就會發生衝突。瑜伽並不意味著扭轉身體，這不是一個減肥計劃或減壓計劃。它意味著你明白“我與宇宙對立”的愚蠢。與生命之源競爭絕對是愚蠢的。當你意識到這一點時，你就是在邁向瑜伽。
To be a yogi means to be determined to obliterate the boundaries of your individuality.
成為一位瑜伽士意味著你決心要突破你個體的界限。
It does not matter how you do it. You can call it impact, you can call it service, you can call it whatever you want. Essentially, when you realize this me vs. the rest of the universe is a stupid competition to get into, you start relaxing your boundaries – this is yoga. That means approaching it in a fail-safe way. When two people fall in love or get married, they think they are in yoga, they broke their boundaries, but after some time, you will see it is not fail-safe.
你怎麼做並不重要，你可以稱它為影響力，也可以稱它為服務，隨便你怎麼稱呼它。本質上，當你意識到這個“我”與“宇宙”的對立是一種愚蠢的競爭時，你開始放鬆你的界限——這就是瑜伽。這意味著以一種萬無一失的方式去達到它。當兩個人相愛或結婚時，他們認為他們處在瑜伽中，他們打破了自己的界限，但一段時間後，你會發現這並不是萬無一失的。
Because you broke the boundaries for a period of time, revenge will come. Not necessarily do two people have to turn against each other after some time. Maybe comfort will happen. In rare moments, they might have erased boundaries. The rest of the time, it is a mutual benefit scheme. Whatever form it is, yoga essentially means this: the first thing is you are interested in erasing your own boundaries. And if you know the joy of what it means, then you want it to happen all around you.
因為你打破界限一段時間後，報復就會來臨。不是說兩個人一定會反目成仇。或許會有舒適的日子，非常偶爾地，他們可能消除了彼此的界限。但其餘時間，這都是一個互惠互利的安排而已。不管是什麼形式，瑜伽本質上意味著：首要的是你想消除自己的界限。如果你瞭解其中蘊含的喜悅，你就會想要它在你周圍發生。
The Irony of Life
生命的諷刺
The fundamental irony of life is – the very instruments of life turn against us. Without this body, we do not know how to live here. Without this mind, we do not know how to live here. Body and mind are the two most basic instruments of life, but it is these two which have turned against people. You can call it suffering, misery, disease, or any number of names. Essentially, two basic instruments of life have turned against you.
生命最根本的諷刺之處在於——生命的工具在與我們作對。沒有這個身體，我們不知道如何活在這裡。沒有這個頭腦，我們不知道如何活在這裡。身體和頭腦是生命中最基本的兩種工具，但正是這兩種工具與人類作對。你可以稱其為折磨、痛苦、疾病或任何其它名稱。從本質上說，這兩種基本的工具在與你作對。
Keeping these two things for you, notagainst you, is our most basic responsibility. If body and mind turn against us, human potential will not be realized. Let us say you have a headache; nothing big, no cancer – just a headache will ruin your life. Or let us say your nostrils are stuffed all the time – nothing big, just a cold. First you will say, “What’s the big deal?” But suppose it lasts for a few years, you will see, life is lost. Not because of cancer, not because your heart broke, just a cold – life is lost. If this body, if this mind turns against you, then you cannot explore the full depth and dimension of what it means to be human.
讓這兩樣東西為你工作，而不是和你作對，是我們最基本的責任。如果身體和頭腦都與我們作對，人類的潛能將無法實現。比如說你頭痛；這不是什麼大不了的，不是癌症——但只是個頭痛就會毀了你的生活。又假如你的鼻子一直堵塞——也沒什麼大不了的，只是感冒了。一開始你會說，“有什麼大不了的。” 但假如這種情況持續幾年，你會發現，生命就喪失了。不是因為癌症，不是因為你的心碎了，只是一場感冒——生命就喪失了。如果這個身體，如果這個頭腦與你對著幹，那麼你就不能探索作為人類的全部深度和維度。
Making Everything Work for You
讓一切為你服務
Some people have this issue – the very universe is against them, simply because of the way they exist. When you have that kind of opposition, you cannot live. Yoga means to keep everything – body, mind, existence – working with us; or better, we are working with it. Now, if something happens, it is wonderful; if nothing happens, it is too fantastic. Something important to do today – wonderful! Nothing to do – fantastic! But for most people, if something happens, it is a problem; if nothing happens, it is a super problem.
有些人有這樣的問題——這個宇宙都在與他們作對，僅僅是因為他們存在的方式。當你有這種對立時，你無法生存。瑜伽意味著讓一切——身體、頭腦、存在——與我們合作；或者更好的是，我們與它們合作。那麼現在，如果發生了什麼，很棒；如果什麼都沒發生，太棒了。今天有重要的事情要做——很棒！沒事可做——太棒了！但對大多數人來說，如果發生了什麼事，那是個問題；如果什麼都沒發生，那就是個大問題。
Yoga means you become a part of everything. You still have an individual existence, but with open, porous boundaries. Because of this, in some way, we have become everything, and we are okay with anything. If you really open up your boundaries, and existence and its source are working with you, what needs to happen will happen. This is what yoga means – to be in tune with everything, simply because you loosened your boundaries. You make the boundaries porous, so that life seeps in, so you are not a prisoner in your own body and your mind.
瑜伽意味著你成為一切事物的一部分。你仍然有一個獨立的存在，但你的邊界是開放的、多孔的。正因為如此，在某種程度上，我們變成了一切，我們對任何事都沒問題 。如果你真的開啟你的邊界，存在以及存在的源頭都會與你合作，需要發生的事情就會發生。這就是瑜伽的意思——與一切保持協調，僅僅因為你放鬆了你的邊界。你鬆開邊界，讓生命滲透進來，這樣你就不再是自己身體和頭腦的囚徒。
Most people are prisoners of their own body and mind. Instead of your body and mind being platforms upon which life is housed, they become the prison walls for the life within. You always have to keep it up, to feel like it is worth living; and not just you, you expect a few other people to cooperate. Yogis just stayed alone, not because they did not care, but simply because they were just fine by themselves. If the society of the times had shown the right kind of interest, they probably would have stepped in.
大多數人都是自己身體和頭腦的囚徒，你的身體和頭腦不再是承載生命的平臺，而是成為內在生命的牢牆。你得一直維護它們，才覺得值得活下去；並且不僅是你自己，你還希望其他人配合你。瑜伽士只是獨自一人，不是因為他們不在乎，而是因為他們能很好地和自己相處。如果當時的社會表現出恰當的興趣，他們可能就介入了。
The Belly-Up Generation
絕望的一代
Today, we are at a certain time in history where we are a belly-up generation. For example, in my father’s generation, whatever personal things were happening in their lives, they never spoke about it to anyone; they just managed it within themselves, and carried on with their life. Then my generation came. When I was in university, I just sat outside in the garden. Every day, someone came and told their whole life story to me. Not an interesting life, but they want to tell. All stupid stuff – how they suffered their parents, their education, their poverty, their girlfriend or boyfriend – endlessly. At that time, I just heard all these things – everyone had a problem. It looked like I was some kind of a freak because I did not have any problem.
今天，我們正處在歷史上某個特定的時期，我們是絕望的一代。例如，在我父親那一代，無論他們的生活中發生了什麼私事，他們從來不會對他人提起；他們都是自己內在消化，然後繼續生活。然後我們這一代人來了。當我上大學的時候，我只是坐在外面的花園裡。每天都有人來和我講述他們的人生故事。不是什麼有趣的人生經歷，但他們想說。所有愚蠢的事情——他們如何忍受他們的父母、他們的教育、他們的貧窮、他們的女朋友或男朋友——沒完沒了。在那個時候，我只是聽著所有這些東西——每個人都有問題。我看起來像個怪人，因為我沒有任何問題。
My father’s generation used to write journals. Even in my generation, a lot of people wrote journals, about all aspects of their life, and they didn’t want anyone to see it. If anyone ever opened as much as a cover page, they would be terribly upset. “Without me knowing, you opened my journal” – it was like a crime. But today’s generation puts every aspect of their life on Facebook, and they will be terribly upset if no one sees it. Like, “I’m eating my breakfast,” – picture! “I’m licking my ice cream” – picture. Just anything and everything…
我父親那一代人會寫日記。即使在我這一代，也有很多人寫日記，記錄他們生活的方方面面，他們不想讓任何人看到。即使有人只是打開了扉頁，他們也會非常不高興。“在我不知道的情況下，你打開了我的日記”——這就像犯罪一樣。但是今天的這代人把他們生活的方方面面都放上Facebook（臉書），如果沒有人看到，他們會非常難過。比如，“我正在吃早餐”——看照片！“我在舔冰淇淋”——看！幾乎什麼都放上去……
In a way, this is a belly-up generation. When a generation is belly-up like this, it is time for transformation – the best time. There are various things that I cannot articulate right now. If we really have to transform human beings on this planet, they are available to you in a big way only for another fifteen to maximum thirty years. After that, it will be very hard to touch them. Of course, there will always be people who are willing and others who are not willing, but generally, the larger population will be super-willing for these fifteen to thirty years. Beyond that, it will be difficult, for a variety of reasons.
在某種程度上，這是絕望的一代。當一代人像這樣絕望的時候，就是變革的時候了——最好的時候。有很多事情我現在無法說清楚。如果我們真的要轉化這個星球上的人類，這樣的機會將在未來的15年，最多30年的時間內大規模地出現。在那之後，將很難觸碰到他們。當然，總會有人願意，有人不願意，但總的來說，在這15-30年內，大多數人會非常願意。在那之後，由於各種原因，這將變得困難。
A Possibility for a Limited Time Only
有限的時機
So, we are here at an appropriate time. If we do the right things, we can touch the maximum number of people. But if time passes, if this generation passes, and once they are off Facebook and everything, it will be difficult. Above all, if we do not impart yoga strongly enough in the world, in another twenty-five to thirty years, more than ninety percent of the world’s population will be on some kind of chemical. Once they are on chemicals, you cannot talk to them. The world is rapidly getting there. If you do not show them another way to take away the boundary simply sitting here, they will get there in a way that is not for keeps. It is only for a few minutes or a few hours – afterwards, it will get them.
所以，我們來的正是時候。如果我們做對的事情，我們可以觸碰到最大限度的人口。但如果時間流逝了，如果這一代人過去了，一旦他們不再使用Facebook這些，就會變得困難。最重要的是，如果我們沒有在世界上大力傳授瑜伽，再過25到30年，世界上90%以上的人都會需要服用某種化學物質。一旦他們服用了化學藥品，你就無法和他們說話了。世界正迅速走向這種境地。如果你不向他們展示另一種方法，（讓他們看到）僅僅坐在這裡，就能消除邊界，他們就會去找一些不可持續的方法來達到目的。只能維持幾分鐘或幾個小時——之後，又不行了。
This is the right time, and it is our time on the planet. If we are committed and determined, we can make this the best time ever in the history of humanity, because we are empowered like never before. Survival is taken care of like never before – for the human beings, at least; not for the other creatures, unfortunately. Never before did human beings have so much comfort and convenience. If we do not do the right things now, later, it will be too late; because later, situations will be very different. It is being estimated that with the rise ofArtificial Intelligence, probably in seventy years’ time, anywhere between forty to fifty percent of the population may commit suicide. Simply because if there is nothing to do, they will see no worth in their life.
現在正是時候了，並且現在是我們的時代。如果我們堅定、有決心，我們就能造就人類歷史上最好的時代，因為我們獲得了前所未有的力量。生存問題得到前所未有的照料——至少對人類來說是這樣的——對其他生物卻不是這樣，這很不幸。人類從未擁有這樣的舒適和方便。如果我們現在不做正確的事情，以後就會太晚了；因為以後的情況會大不相同。據估計，隨著人工智慧的發展，在70年後，40%-50%的人口可能會自殺，僅僅因為如果無事可做，他們就會覺得活得毫無價值。
Yoga: Transformative Catalyst
瑜伽：改革的催化劑
So imparting yoga is not just another chore that we are doing in the world – it is a very significant activity. Everyone may not understand this right now. But if we all do the right thing, with enough intensity, in another five to seven years’ time, you will see how important yoga will become in the world. Already the demand has become significantly more today than it was five years ago. The only thing is, when something is in so much demand, all of a sudden, all kinds of spurious stuff will come up, because there is a market. If there is no quality product, people make up and do all kinds of things.
所以傳授瑜伽不僅僅是我們在這個世界做的又一件瑣事——它是一項非常重要的活動。現在可能不是每個人都明白這一點。但是，如果我們都做正確的事情，帶著足夠的投入，再過五到七年的時間，你就會看到瑜伽在世界上將變得多麼重要。如今的需求已經比五年前明顯增加。唯一的問題是，當某個東西需求如此高時，突然間，各種各樣的假東西就會出現，因為它有市場。如果沒有優質的產品，人們就會造假，做各種各樣的事情。
The classical system of yoga is unique. Maybe it is not as entertaining as doing Zumba or something else, but if people give themselves to the yogic process, it will do things that they have not imagined possible. Yoga is a phenomenal process – it can change the composition of who you are. When I started practicing simple aspects of yoga at the age of twelve, it changed everything about me, physiologically. It just depends on the intensity with which you go at it.
經典的瑜伽體系是獨一無二的。也許這並不像跳尊巴舞或做其它事情那麼有趣，但如果人們全身心投入到瑜伽的過程中，它會產生超乎想象的作用。瑜伽是一個非凡的過程——它可以改變你的構造。當我從12歲開始練習簡單的瑜伽時，它從生理上改變了我的一切。這隻取決於你做這件事的強度。
Imparting Yoga: The Who and How
傳授瑜伽：誰傳授 、如何傳授
The science of yoga is always there, but who carries it and how makes a world of difference. Apart from imparting yoga in an instructional way, there are other ways of imparting it. In the sense, if you have been at Dhyanalinga – there, a yogi sits; he has everything that is worth knowing about yoga. He cannot speak, but that does not mean he is any less effective.
瑜伽的科學總是在那裡，但誰來傳授、如何傳授將產生巨大的差別。除了以教學的方式傳授瑜伽，還有其它方式傳授瑜伽。從這種意義上說，如果你去過Dhyanalinga（迪阿納靈伽），那裡，坐著一位瑜伽士；他有一切值得知曉的瑜伽知識。他不會說話，但這絲毫不影響他的效力。
I have all the energy I need to do whatever I want, but sometimes the body is lacking. If you are willing to stand up and do something beyond yourself, especially young people, these possibilities are there. Those of you who wish to go in that direction, you must express your intention. We will see what to do.
我有足夠的能量去做我想做的任何事，但有時身體卻跟不上。如果你願意站起來，做一些超越自己的事情，尤其是年輕人，這些可能性是存在的。你們當中想要朝那個方向走的人，必須表達你們的意圖。我們看看能為此做些什麼。
原文連結：
isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/wisdom/article/15-30years-crucial-humanity