问:谢谢您的演讲,令人深受鼓舞。正如您所提到的一切皆应平等,但实际上在现实世界中有很多的不平等和不公平。有时候人们想在这些不公中做出改变或帮助,但是他们常常会有一种心态,那就是人类或个体的存在是那么渺小,他们觉得自己能给世界带来的影响是如此之小,最终他们什么都没做,没有去帮助他人,也没有做出改变。
Q:Thank you very much for an inspirational speech. As you mention all things should be equal. But in reality they're actually a lot of inequalities and injustice around the world. Sometimes people want to make a change or to help but they would always have a mentality that actually the existent of human, of an individual is so small and the impact that they can bring to the world is actually so small and they ended up doing nothing to help or to make a change.
所以,依您来看,真正希望改变这些不平等和不公平的人,应该采取什么样的态度和心态才是对的?
So from your perspective, what should be the right attitude or mentality for those people who really want to help to make a change to these inequalities and injustice?
Radanath Swami:谢谢,非常好的问题。在当今的世界,我们更多的被灌输着重视数量高过品质,对么?
Radhanath Swami: Thank you that's beautiful. In the world we live today we are very much almost indoctrinated to value quantity over quality. Yes?
你看,多大?多少?但衡量内心的实际上是品质,而不是数量。这只是个简单的比喻,我会详细的说说它。
You know, How big? How much? But the heart actually values quality not necessarily quantity. There is a simple analogy and then I will explain it.
在《罗摩衍那》中,一部印度的伟大经典,有一个跨海的石桥正在建设时,哈奴曼——一位深爱君王(罗摩)的伟大战士——从高山上搬来了成千上万吨的巨石来堆砌这座桥。
In the Ramayana, one of the great scriptures of India, there was a bridge being built across the ocean with rocks. And Hanuman who was an extremely powerful incredible warrior, who had such deep love for God, or Rama, he was bringing gigantic rocks from the mountains that weighed tons to build the ocean.
他深爱的君王罗摩,神的化身,走在他的后面。看到哈奴曼因为一只小松鼠停了下来。这只小松鼠跳进了水里,在沙子上滚来滚去,然后摇了摇身体,让一粒粒沙子落到桥上。
And his beloved Lord Rama, who was an avatar, who was walking behind him, happened to see Hanuman stop because there was a little squirrel. And the squirrel jumped in the water then rolled around in the sand and then shook his body and made the litter grains of sand go on the bridge.
哈奴曼不想踩到松鼠,他请松鼠离开。罗摩说道,“这只松鼠做的和你一样出色。因为你在尽你所能来帮忙,他也在尽他所能来帮忙,或者是她,我不知道他是一个雌松鼠还是雄松鼠。假设它是一个雌松鼠,她做到了尽她所能,所以对于我来说你们付出的是相等的。我不看结果,我看的是意图。”
And Hanuman didn't want to step on the squirrel. So he told the squirrel please move. And Rama said, he said, "That squirrel is doing as much as you. Cause you are doing your capacity to help and that squirrel is doing his capacity to help, or her capacity, I don't really know whether it was a boy or a girl squirrel. But suppose it was a girl. She's doing her capacity, so for me it's equal, I don't see the result, I see the intent."
世界上很多伟大事情的发生都开始于渺小。假如我们当时的想法是,我这么渺小不会有所作为,那我们就真的不能有所作为。可如果我们在人生中哪怕仅仅帮助一个人,都是巨大的成就,那甚至比赢得世界杯,比做一个世界冠军都伟大。如果你能帮助这世界上的一个人,那就是很棒的事情,更别说你帮助一个、两个、三个或者一百万个人。品质真的非常重要。我们所有人都可以有所作为,或大或小。
And many of the greatest things that happen in the world begin really small. But if we just think I'm so small I can't make a difference, then we won't make a difference. But if we can even help one person in our life, that's a tremendous accomplishment. That's greater than winning the world cup, or being a world champion. If you can help one person in this world, that's a great thing. What to speak of two or three or a million. The quality is really important. And we could all make a difference big or small.