「Shiva一直在等待你生命中某一个脆弱的瞬间，好将你彻底击碎。」
「从对声音极其深刻的理解之中，我们提取出了一些声音，它们就像是通往存在的钥匙。如果你在人生中某一个恰当的时刻，以足够的强度发出这些声音，它们可以瞬间粉碎你所有的局限，把你带到别处。」
求道者：
那么，在我们转山的过程中，唱诵“Shiva Shambho”是否会对我们有所帮助？而且在转山之后，我们是否也适合继续唱诵“Shambho”呢？
萨古鲁：
当你说“Shambho”，当你说“Shiva”的时候，你并不是在请求帮助。如果你是因为膝盖疼才念“Shambho”，那就不对了（大笑）。
Shiva的奉爱者（Bhaktas）一直都是这样呼唤Shiva的：“Shiva，请你摧毁我。”
你有没有在 Dhyanalinga 寺庙里看到那块关于 Akka Mahadevi 的浮雕？
Akka向Shiva祈祷，她的祷词是这样的：
“Shiva，当我非常饥饿的时候，如果我得到了一小口食物，
在我把它送入口中之前，就让它滑落，掉进泥里；
在我弯腰去捡之前，让一条狗过来把它叼走；
如果我在爬山，就让我的脚打滑，让我跌落，让我头破血流。”
这就是她的祈祷内容。（笑）你是这样呼唤 Shambho的吗？（笑声）
这是个“把戏”。你明天一大早去恒河洗罪的时候就会看到——尤其是在人很多的地方。你会注意到，现在天气其实并不算冷，但清晨的水却异常冰凉。所有人都在喊：“Shhhiva—shivaaa！”
可当他们用热水洗澡的时候，会不会喊“Shiva, Shiva”？不会。（笑）那时候他们在吹口哨，或者唱电影歌曲。在冷水里就是：“Shiva, Shiva, Shiva。”（笑）
这根本不是关于Shiva的事情，这是关于你的生存。你只是叫错了人而已。
如果你追求的是生存，那你找错对象了。
Shiva一直在等待你生命中某一个脆弱的瞬间，好将你彻底击碎，明白吗？
他并不是在想着怎样帮你活下去。他只是等待着一个脆弱的时刻，好把你彻底压碎。
所以，我让你以那样的意图去说“Shambho”，而不是为了帮你爬上山。
正如我之前所说的，从对声音极其深刻的理解之中，我们提取出了一些声音，它们就像是通往存在的钥匙。如果你在人生中某一个恰当的时刻，以足够的强度发出这些声音，它们可以瞬间粉碎你所有的局限，把你带到别处。
“Shiva”和“Shambho”正是这样的两把钥匙。你使用它们，是为了把自己击碎、打开。
它们是为了让你从那个顽固、僵化的身份中解脱出来，把你撬开，带你进入一个全新的维度。
不是为了——“Shiva, Shiva, Shiva”，好让你爬上山。这并不是它被给予你的用途。
让它成为你的生命之息，让这个声音在你内在不断回响。一旦某个脆弱的瞬间出现，这个声音就会把你击碎。新的事情会发生，完全崭新的事情会发生。
所以，不要为了生存而使用“Shiva Shambho”。你说“Shambho”，是因为你想在这个声音中消融。不是因为你想通过这个声音获得什么地位，不是因为你想在佛罗里达买一套公寓，不是因为（笑）你想买新房子、新车，也不是因为你想把女儿嫁出去。这不是你说“Shiva”的理由。
当你说“Shiva”，你是在寻求消融，因为“Shiva”的意思是“那不存在的（That which is not）”。那是未被造物主创造之前的极乐，那是作为“无”的狂喜。那就是 Shiva 。
唯有当你那个原本的自我被打破时，你才会感到狂喜。如果你生命中曾有过哪怕一瞬间的狂喜，那些时刻之所以发生，正是因为在某种原因下，“你是谁”被击碎了。不是吗？当你牢牢地是“你自己”的时候，你永远不会尝到狂喜或极乐的滋味。
我还能继续唱诵“Shambho”吗？
如果你的意图是上述这样，那你应该一直念诵。如果你的意图只是想着下一处房产该怎么置办，那就去叫别人吧。
不要去叫 Shambho 和 Shiva。那是不合适的。不是说他们不能给予，而是——那就像是用宇宙飞船去隔壁村庄。你走过去就行了。
如果你的意图是去火星，或更远的地方，那宇宙飞船是合适的。但不要坐宇宙飞船去下一个村子。
瑜伽传统中有一个很精彩的故事，讲的是 克里亚瑜伽士（Kriya Yogis）——那些掌控自己生命能量的瑜伽士。
通常来说，如果他们已经到达了巅峰，那还好；但如果还没到顶，却逐渐掌控了周围的环境，能做出别人做不到的事情，他们往往会对一切其他事物产生彻底的轻蔑。（笑）所以他们会看不起那些整天念咒的人。
有一天，一位成就斐然的克里亚瑜伽士去找湿婆，说：“这都是些什么呀？你的奉爱者们在世界上制造这么多噪音，整天大喊大叫‘Shiva Shambho’。这能起什么作用？这样乱喊真言有什么用？”
湿婆说：“我们来试验一下。这里有一条正在爬的虫子。你走过去，对它说‘Shiva Shambho’，看看会发生什么。”
瑜伽士走到虫子面前，说：“Shiva Shambho。”虫子当场死了。
瑜伽士惊呆了：“我只是念了这个真言，念了你的名字，这条虫子就死了！这是什么？”
湿婆完全没有理会那条虫子，指着一只蝴蝶说：“看看这只蝴蝶，多美。”
瑜伽士也被蝴蝶吸引了。
湿婆说：“对蝴蝶试试这个真言。”
瑜伽士看着蝴蝶，说：“Shiva Shambho。”蝴蝶死了。
瑜伽士彻底慌乱了，说：“这是什么？我一念你的名字，一个接一个生命就死去。我不想再念了。”
湿婆完全无视这些，转而看向一只正在嬉戏的鹿，说：“看这只鹿，多么美好。”瑜伽士也看了过去。湿婆说：“为什么不对这只鹿念一下试试呢？”
瑜伽士说：“Shiva Shambho。”鹿倒下死了。
瑜伽士喊道：“不！不！我不能再念了！”
这时，有人把他们的新生婴儿抱到湿婆面前，请求祝福。湿婆说：“为什么不对这孩子念一次真言呢？”
瑜伽士说：“不，我不能这样做。我已经背负了虫子、蝴蝶和鹿的死亡，我不能再念了。”
湿婆说：“没关系，念吧。”于是，瑜伽士极其犹豫地走到孩子面前，说：“Shiva Shambho。”
这个新生婴儿立刻坐了起来，看着瑜伽士说：“哦，瑜伽士，你不知道这个真言的力量吗？你不知道湿婆之名的力量吗？”
瑜伽士说：“不知道，你能告诉我吗？”
婴儿说：“我曾是一条虫子，你念了真言，我成了一只蝴蝶；你念了真言，我成了一只鹿；你念了真言，我成了人。如果你再念一次，我就会成为神圣的存在。”
——摘自《Himalayan Lust》
‘Shiva is constantly waiting for one moment of vulnerability in you when he can crack you.’
Seeker: So does chanting ‘Shiva Shambho’ help us on our trek up these mountains? And would it be appropriate to continue chanting ‘Shambho’ afterwards as well?
Sadhguru: When you say ‘Shambho’, when you say ‘Shiva’, you are not asking for help. Now if you are saying ‘Shambho’ every time your knees are hurting, that’s not it. (Laughs) Shiva bhaktas always called upon Shiva and said, ‘Shiva, please destroy me.’
Have you seen that panel about Akka Mahadevi in the Dhyanalinga temple? Akka called upon Shiva and this was her prayer: ‘Shiva, when I am very hungry, if I get a morsel of food, before I put it in my mouth, let it slip and fall into the mud. And before I bend down and pick it up, let a dog come and take it away. And if I am climbing a mountain, let my feet slip and let me fall down and let my head break.’ This is how the prayer goes. (Laughs) Is that how you were calling Shambho? (Laughter)
This is a trick. You will see tomorrow early morning when you go to the Ganga to wash all your sins, particularly if you go there where its very crowded. You will notice that it’s not so cold right now, yet the water is quite chilled in the mornings. They’re all saying, ‘SSShhivaa-shivvaaa!’ When they are having a warm water bath, are they saying ‘Shiva, Shiva’? No. (Laughs) They are whistling or singing some film tune. In chilled water, it’s ‘Shiva, Shiva, Shiva’. (Laughs) This is not about Shiva; this is about your survival. You’re just calling the wrong guy. If you are seeking survival, you are just calling the wrong person. Shiva is constantly waiting for one moment of vulnerability in you when he can crack you, okay? He is not seeing how to help you to survive. He is just waiting for a moment of vulnerability when he can squash you. So I asked you to say ‘Shambho’ with that intention, not with the intention of helping you up the mountain.
As I mentioned earlier, out of a very deep state of understanding of sound, we have taken out a few sounds which are like the keys to existence. If you utter them with the right sense of intensity at the right moment in your life, they can just shatter all your limitations and take you elsewhere. So ‘Shiva’ and ‘Shambho’ are two such keys. You are supposed to use these to break you open, to crack you up. From the solid person that you are, they are meant to open you up to a new dimension. Not ‘Shiva, Shiva, Shiva’ to help you to go up the mountain; that is not the way it was given to you. Just make it your life-breath, to make the sound constantly on within you. If one moment of vulnerability comes, the sound will just crack you open. New things will happen; absolutely new things will happen.
So don’t use ‘Shiva Shambho’ for your survival. You say ‘Shambho’ because you want to dissolve with this sound. Not because you want to become something with this sound, not because you want to buy a condo in Florida, not because (Laughs) you want to buy a new house, or you want to buy a new vehicle, or you want to get your daughter married. That’s not the reason why you say ‘Shiva’. When you say ‘Shiva’, you are seeking dissolution, because Shiva means ‘that which is not’. The blissfulness of the uncreated, the ecstasy of being uncreated, that’s what Shiva means. When who you are, is broken, only then you will be ecstatic. If you have known a moment of ecstasy in your life, those moments happened only when who you are was broken for some reason. Isn’t that so? When you are yourself, you will never know a taste of ecstasy or blissfulness within you.
Can I continue to say ‘Shambho’? If this is your intention, you must always say it. If this is not your intention, if you are just thinking of how to acquire the next property, call on someone else. Don’t call on Shambho and Shiva. It will not be appropriate. Not that they cannot provide it, but it’ll be like using a spacecraft to go to the next village. You can walk to the next village. If your intention is to go to Mars or beyond, a spacecraft is okay. But don’t ride a spacecraft to the next village.
There is a wonderful story in the yogic lore about the kriya yogis, yogis who have mastery over their life energies. Usually if they have attained to their heights, it’s fine. But otherwise as they get more and more mastery over the situation around them and they can do things that other people cannot, they tend to have a total disdain for everything else around them. (Laughs) So they look down upon all these mantra-uttering people.
One day a kriya yogi, who had great accomplishments behind him, went to Shiva and asked, ‘What is all this? Your bhaktas are making all this noise in the world; all the time they are shouting, ‘Shiva Shambho’. What is this going to do? What is the use of yelling these mantras like this?’
Then Shiva said, ‘Let us experiment. Here is a worm crawling. Go close to him and say, ‘Shiva Shambho’. Let’s see what happens.’
The yogi went to the worm and said, ‘Shiva Shambho’. The worm fell dead.
The yogi was aghast: ‘I just uttered this mantra, your name, and the worm is dead! What is this?’
Shiva, completely oblivious of the worm, pointed at a butterfly and said, ‘See how wonderful this butterfly is.’ The yogi also got involved with the butterfly. Shiva said, ‘Attempt the mantra with the butterfly.’
The yogi looked in the direction of the butterfly and said, ‘Shiva Shambho’. The butterfly fell dead.
The yogi was totally in turmoil, and said, ‘What is this? If I just utter your name, one creature after the other is falling dead. I don’t want to say it anymore.’
Shiva completely ignored this and looked at a wonderful deer that was romping around. He said, ‘Look at the deer, so wonderful.’ The yogi also got involved. Shiva said, ‘Why don’t you utter the mantra to the deer and see?’
The yogi said, ‘Shiva Shambho’. The deer fell dead.
The yogi said, ‘No! No more can I say this.’
Then somebody brought their newborn child to Shiva for his blessings. Then Shiva said, ‘Why don’t you utter the mantra to this child?’
The yogi said, ‘No, I cannot do this. (Laughs) Already the worm, the butterfly and the deer I have behind me, and I don’t want to say this.’
Shiva said, ‘It doesn’t matter; say it.’ So the yogi, with great hesitation, went to the child and said, ‘Shiva Shambho’.
This newborn babe just sat up, looked at the yogi and said, ‘Oh yogi, don’t you know the power of the mantra? Don’t you know the power of the name of Lord Shiva?’
The yogi said, ‘No, can you tell me?’
The infant said, ‘Yes. I was a worm and you uttered the mantra, so I became a butterfly. You uttered the mantra, so I became a deer. You uttered the mantra, so I became human. You utter the mantra once more, I will become divine.’
—Himalayan Lust