名著精讀:《悉達多》 船伕(5)

"This it is," said Siddhartha. "And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was Also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was only separated from the man Siddhartha and from the old man Siddhartha by a shadow, not by something real. Also, Siddhartha's previous births were no past, and his death and his return to Brahma was no future. Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present."
Siddhartha spoke with ecstasy; deeply, this enlightenment had delighted him. Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as time would have been put out of existence by one's thoughts? In ecstatic delight, he had spoken, but Vasudeva smiled at him brightly and nodded in confirmation; silently he nodded, brushed his hand over Siddhartha's shoulder, turned back to his work.
And once again, when the river had just increased its flow in the rainy season and made a powerful noise, then said Siddhartha: "Isn't it so, oh friend, the river has many voices, very many voices? Hasn't it the voice of a king, and of a warrior, and of a bull, and of a bird of the night, and of a woman giving birth, and of a sighing man, and a thousand other voices more?"
"So it is," Vasudeva nodded, "all voices of the creatures are in its voice."
"And do you know," Siddhartha continued, "what word it speaks, when you succeed in hearing all of its ten thousand voices at once?"
Happily, Vasudeva's face was smiling, he bent over to Siddhartha and spoke the holy Om into his ear. And this had been the very thing which Siddhartha had also been hearing.

“是這樣。”席特哈爾塔說，“我當弄明白這點後再細看自己的生活，就發現它也是一條河，少年席特哈爾塔和成年席特哈爾塔以及老年席特哈爾塔都只是被影子隔開，而不是被現實隔開。席特哈爾塔先前的出生並不是過去，而他的死亡與迴歸婆羅門也並非將來。萬物無過去，萬物過將來；一切都是現在，一切都只有本質和現在。”
席特哈爾塔興奮地侃侃而談，這種大徹大悟使得他十分高興。哦，一切憂患不就是時間嗎？一切自我折磨和自我恐懼不就是時間嗎？一旦超越了時間，一旦拋開了時間，世上的一切艱難困苦和敵對仇視不就一掃而光了嗎？他說得興致勃勃。瓦蘇代瓦只是精神煥發地朝着他微笑，點頭讚許。他默默無言地點頭，用手撫摩席特哈爾塔的肩膀，然後便轉身去做自己的事了。
又一次，正值雨季河水暴漲，水流湍急，席特哈爾塔說：“哦，朋友，河水有許多聲音，非常多的聲音，對嗎？它是不是有一個君主的聲音，一個兵士的聲音，一頭公牛的聲音，一隻夜鳥的聲音，一個產婦的聲音，一個嘆氣者的聲音，以及上千種別的聲音？”
“是這樣的。”瓦蘇代瓦點點頭，“在河水的聲音中包含了所有生物的聲音。”
“你知道嗎，”席特哈爾塔接着說，“當你同時聽到了它的全部上萬種聲音時，它說的是哪個字？”
瓦蘇代瓦臉上綻出了幸福的笑容。他俯身湊近席特哈爾塔在他耳邊低聲說出了那個“唵”字，而這也正是席特哈爾塔所聽到的字。