The Hole in the Heart  

心灵的伤口  

墨西哥湾石油从海底泄漏，是美国的重大新闻。每天有成千上万加仑的石油流入海洋，人们尝试堵漏，并没有成功，被认为是美国历史上最大的人造灾难之一。从生态学角度来讲，那片区域的污染要几百年才能恢复如初。石油公司说，那个漏洞很难修补，因为泄漏口位置太深了，大概在海底一英里处。

然而，其产生问题的深远程度不止一英里。问题的根源深达人们内心，他们的价值观产生了漏洞——“我执”或“自我”的漏洞。洞口中流淌出来的是贪婪、色欲、愤怒和骄傲的有毒液体，并且在污染着我们的知觉。因为知觉受到了污染，我们一并污染着世界。这全部来源于自我和贪婪。即便他们填补了海洋的漏洞，如果不修补内心的伤口，就会制造出一个接一个的漏洞，更大问题也会随之而来。

对至上的巴克提（奉爱）是修补心灵伤口的程序，这程序可以清除我们内心有毒的污染物，并将我们内心填满至上之爱的甘露。一旦这甘露满盈内心，我们就可以用这甘露填满物质世界的整个海洋。这是人类社会的最大需求：清除内心有毒的色欲、嫉妒、贪婪、骄傲和愤怒，获得神圣的爱，成为那个爱的媒介。这是世界上每个人力所能及的宏图伟业。

In the gulf of Mexico there is oil coming out of the ground. This is the biggest news in America. Ten of thousands of gallons of oil are coming out into the ocean everyday. People are trying to stop it, but are failing. It Is considered to be one of the worst manmade disasters in the history of America. And it may take hundreds of years for that area to recover ecologically. And the oil company says that the hole is difficult to fix because it's very deep, about one mile into the bottom of the ocean.

However, the problem is much deeper than one mile. The problem is that deep in the people's hearts, there is a hole in their values: the hole of ahankara or ego. And from that hole the toxic oil of greed and lust and anger and pride is pouring out and polluting our consciousness. And because our consciousness is polluted, we are polluting the world. It is due to ego and greed. And even if they patch up the hole in the ocean, if they don't patch up the hole in the heart, they are just going to make another hole and another hole and another hole, and bigger problems will come.

Bhakti or devotion to God is the process of healing that hole in the heart and cleaning the toxic waste our of the heart and filling our heart with the nectar of love of God. And when that nectar fills our hearts, we can fill the whole ocean of the material world with that nectar. This is the greatest need in the human society: to clean the heart of toxic lust and greed and envy and pride and anger, and to access divine love, and to be instruments of that love. That is the greatest thing anyone can do in the world.

摘自书籍《The Real You》（真正的你）

作者Radhanath Swami