卡比尔诗选
O servant, where dost thou seek Me?
Lo! I am beside thee.
I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor
in Kailash:
Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and
renunciation.
If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt
meet Me in a moment of time.
Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."
哦，仆人，你要在哪里找寻我？
瞧！我就在你身边。
我既不在神庙里，也不在清真寺；我既不在天房，也不在伽拉萨山（Kailash）；
我不在礼拜和仪式中，也不在瑜伽和苦行中。
如果你是真正的寻求者，你会即刻看见我，你会在一瞬间与我相遇。
卡比尔说：“哦，修行者，神是所有呼吸的呼吸。”
Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O Friend! go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there
gaze on the Infinite Beauty.
不要前往花园！
哦，朋友！不要前往；
你的心中就有一座花园。
让你自己端坐于千瓣莲花之上，凝视无限之美。
O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live,
understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of
deliverance in death?
It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him
because it has passed from the body:
If He is found now, He is found then,
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.
Bathe in the truth, know the true Guru, have faith in the true
Name!
Kabîr says: "It is the Spirit of the quest which helps; I am the
slave of this Spirit of the quest."
哦，朋友！在你有生之年，你要期望他（指神），在你有生之年，你要认识他；在你有生之年，你要了解他；因为生活可以让你解脱。
如果在你有生之年，你没有挣脱自己的束缚，那你怎能希望在死亡中获得解脱？
灵魂将与神结合，因为它已离开肉身；
这只是一场空梦——因为灵魂已丢下身体，它就会与他合一。
如果此时能找到他，那时就也能。
否则，我们只能前往死亡之城。
如果你此时就与他合一，从此你就不再分离。
在真理之中沐浴，结识真正的古鲁**，信仰神的真名！
卡比尔说：“探求的灵魂才有助于你，而我就是它的奴仆。”
When He Himself reveals Himself, Brahma brings into manifestation
That which can never be seen.
As the seed is in the plant, as the shade is in the tree, as the
void is in the sky, as infinite forms are in the void--
So from beyond the Infinite, the Infinite comes; and from the
Infinite the finite extends.
The creature is in Brahma, and Brahma is in the creature: they
are ever distinct, yet ever united.
He Himself is the tree, the seed, and the germ.
He Himself is the flower, the fruit, and the shade.
He Himself is the sun, the light, and the lighted.
He Himself is Brahma, creature, and Maya.
He Himself is the manifold form, the infinite space;
He is the breath, the word, and the meaning.
He Himself is the limit and the limitless: and beyond both the
limited and the limitless is He, the Pure Being.
He is the Immanent Mind in Brahma and in the creature.
The Supreme Soul is seen within the soul,
The Point is seen within the Supreme Soul,
And within the Point, the reflection is seen again.
Kabîr is blest because he has this supreme vision!
当梵天显现他自己，他就会将无形彰显。
正如种子在植物中，树荫在树下，虚空在空中，无限在虚无之中——
因此，无限来自于无限之外；而有限是由无限而来。
造物在梵天之中，梵天在造物之内，它们相异，而又合一。
他自己就是树、种子、幼芽。
他自己就是花、果实、树荫。
他自己就是太阳、阳光，和照耀的万物。
他自己就是梵天、造物和幻境。
他自己就是各种形式、无限的空间；
他自己就是呼吸、音流、和意义。
他自己就是有限和无限，他超越有限和无限，他是纯粹的存在。
他是梵天和造物内在的心智。
在灵魂之内能看见至高之灵，
在至高之灵之内能看见灵点，
在灵点之内，重又能看见它的反映。
卡比尔是有福的，因为他已看见这至高的景象！
It is needless to ask of a saint the caste to which he belongs;
For the priest, the warrior. the tradesman, and all the
thirty-six castes, alike are seeking for God.
It is but folly to ask what the caste of a saint may be;
The barber has sought God, the washerwoman, and the carpenter--
Even Raidas was a seeker after God.
The Rishi Swapacha was a tanner by caste.
Hindus and Moslems alike have achieved that End, where remains no
mark of distinction.
不要问一个圣人，他是属于哪个种姓；
因为祭司、武士、商人，以及所有三十六种姓，都同样在寻找神。
问一个圣人属于哪个种姓是何其愚蠢；
剃头匠、洗衣妇、木匠都寻找过神——
甚至拉维达斯也是一个寻求神的人。
要说种姓，里士斯瓦帕泰曾是一个皮革匠。
印度教徒、穆斯林同样抵达了终极之境，那里没有种姓之分。
Tell me, Brother, how can I renounce Maya?
When I gave up the tying of ribbons, still I tied my garment
about me:
When I gave up tying my garment, still I covered my body in its
folds.
So, when I give up passion, I see that anger remains;
And when I renounce anger, greed is with me still;
And when greed is vanquished, pride and vainglory remain;
When the mind is detached and casts Maya away, still it clings to
the letter.
Kabîr says, "Listen to me, dear Sadhu! the true path is rarely
found."
告诉我，兄弟，我如何能从幻境中解脱？
当我不再将衣带打结，我还在系紧我的衣袍；
当我不再系紧我的衣袍，我还在用它遮体。
所以，当我放弃热情，我看见愤怒还未离去；
当我摆脱了愤怒，贪婪仍然伴我左右；
当贪婪消失，自负和傲慢还在；
当心智摆脱了幻境，它还迷恋着文字。
卡比尔说：“请听我说，亲爱的修行者，正道何其难觅！”
The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf
ears cannot hear it.
So long as man clamours for the I and the Mine,
his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then
the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.
The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower
withers.
The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it
wanders in quest of grass.
月亮在我心中照耀，但我的瞎眼却无法看见；
月亮就在我的内心，太阳也是如此。
我内在的永恒之鼓不敲自响；但我的聋耳却无法聆听。
只要人还在追求自我和名利，他的工作就还没有开始。
当对自我和名利的钟爱消失，神的工作就已完成。
因为除了获得真知，工作没有其它目的；
当真知来临，工作就会结束。
开花是为了结果；当结出了果实，花儿就会凋零。
麝香就在鹿的身上，但它不在自己身上寻找，却在草丛中徘徊。
By Ravindranath Tagore 泰戈尔译
中 译 ：万 源 一
朋友，醒醒！
Kabir：
Friend, wake up! Why do you go on sleeping?
The night is over—do you want to lose the day the same way?
Other women who managed to get up early have already found an elephant or a jewel…
So much was lost already while you slept…
and that was so unnecessary!
朋友，醒醒！为什么你要继续睡？
夜已结束—你要以同样的方式浪费日子吗？
其他早起的女人都已经找到一头象或一棵宝石…
在你睡觉期间已经失去很多了…
那是多么不必要啊！
The one who loves you understood, but you did not.
You forgot to make a place in your bed next to you.
Instead you spent your life in playing.
In your twenties you did not grow
because you did not know who your Lord was.
Wake up! Wake up! There’s no one in you bed—
He left you during the long night.
爱你的那个了解这点，但你不了解。
你忘记在床上你的身旁保留一个位置。
取而代之的，你将生命花在玩乐上。
在你二十多岁时你没有成长
因为你不知道你的主是谁。
醒醒！醒醒！在你的床上没有人—
他在漫长的夜晚当中离开了。
Kabir says: The only woman awake is the woman who has heard the flute!
卡比尔说：唯一清醒的女人是那听到笛声的女人！
水与浪
Kabir：
I have been thinking about the difference between water
and the waves on it. Rising,
water’s still water, falling back,
it is water, will you give me a hint
how to tell them apart?
我一直在想关于水以及
其上的波浪之间的不同。升起时，
水还是水，落下时，它仍然是水，你愿意指给我看
如何分别它们吗？
Because someone has made up the word
‘wave,’ do I have to distinguish it
from water?
因为有人造了那个
「浪」字我就必须去区别它
和水不同？
There is a Secret One inside us;
the planets in all the galaxies
pass through his hands like beads.
在我们里面有一个Secret One；
在所有银河中的星球
就像念珠一样在祂手中经过。
That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.
那是人应该用有见识的眼睛去看的一串珠子。
我的好时光来临了！
Kabir：
Go and do good things for your god, who has unexpectedly entered the temple of day and night.
Don’t be the lunatic in the second act; this day will not last forever.
去为你的神做些善事，祂意外地进入日与夜的寺庙。
别疯狂投入次要的行动；今天很快就会过去。
The one I love has waited for millions and millions of years for me. It was for love of me that he lost his self-sufficiency.
我爱的那个等了我好几百万年，正是为了爱我而失去他的自给自足。
But I know nothing of that delight which was three inches from me, because my love was still asleep.
但我不知道愉悦就离我三吋，因为我的爱还在睡觉。
Now my darling has made clear to me the meaning of that note I heard.
Now my good time has come!
Kabir says: See how great my luck is. Imagine someone you love stroking you, and that tenderness never ends!
现在我亲爱的已经使我清楚我所听到的音符的意义。
现在我的好时光来临了！
卡比尔说：看我的幸运多么大。想象一下你所爱的人正在轻轻抚摸你，而那温柔永不结束！
当朋友离开时...
Kabir：
When my friend is away from me, I am depressed;
nothing in the daylight delights me,
sleep at night gives no rest;
who can I tell about this?
当我的朋友离开时，我感到沮丧；
白天没有东西让我快乐，
晚上睡觉得不到休息；
这些我还能对谁说？
The night is dark, and long…hours go by…
because I am alone, I sit up suddenly,
fear goes through me…
夜晚很黑，且漫长…几小时过去了…
因为我一个人，我突然坐起，
我感到恐惧…
kabir says: Listen, my friend,
there is one thing in the world that satisfies,
and that is meeting with the Guest.
卡比尔说：听着，朋友，
世上有一件事情令人满意，
那就是与贵宾相会。
趁你还活着...
Kabir：
Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think…and think…while you are alive.
What you call ‘salvation’ belongs to the time before death.
朋友，趁你还活着的时候期盼贵宾的来临。
趁你还活着全心投入经验！
思考…再思考…趁你还活着。
你所谓的「拯救」是属于死亡之前的事。
If you don’t break your ropes while you are alive,
do you think
ghost will do it after?
如果你不在活着的时候砍断绳索，
你以为
在你死后鬼会来替你做？
The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten—
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now,
you will simply end up with an apartment in the city of death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life
you will have the face of satisfied desire.
那种想法认为灵魂会
在身体腐烂之后获得永生—
那完全是幻想。
现在找到的就是以后会找到的。
如果你现在什么也没找到，
你的结局就只会在死亡之城的一幢公寓里。
你如你此刻就和神圣交欢，在来世
你将有一副心满意足的面容。
So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is,
believe in the Great Sound!
所以投身于真理当中吧，找出谁是「老师」，
信任那珍贵的声音吧！
Kabir says this: When the Guest is being searched for,
it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that
does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of the intensity.
卡比尔这么说：当寻找贵宾时，
那是对于贵宾的激烈渴望
来完成所有的事。
看我，你就会看到一个激烈渴望的奴隶。
内在的声音
A certain bird sits in this tree. The delight of life is where it dances.
Nobody knows where the bird is, nor what all this music means.
It makes a nest where the branches make the most darkness.
It appears at dusk and disappears at dawn, and it never gives one hint of what all this means.
有一只鸟坐在这棵树里面。生活愉悦之处就是它跳舞的地方。
无人知道这只鸟在哪里，也没人知道这音乐意味着什么。
它在这棵树枝最绵密的地方筑巢。
它在黄昏时出现而在黎明时消失，它从未给予任何线索来指示这一切究竟意味什么。
Nobody talks to me about this singing bird.
It has no color, nor is it free of color. It has no shape, no form, no boundaries.
It sits in the shadow thrown by love.
It lives in what cannot be reached, where time doesn’t end, where dying things don’t exist. And no one pays any attention to its coming or going.
没有人来对我提及这只唱歌的鸟。
它没有颜色，它也不是没有颜色，它所在之处的时间没有结束，在那里没有会死的东西。没有任何人注意到它的来或去。
Kabir says: You, brother, you seeker, this whole thing is a great mystery.
Tell all the wise men it would be a good thing to know where this bird spends the night.
卡比尔说：你啊，兄弟，你是个探寻者，这整件事极为神秘。
告诉所有的聪明人，去了解这只鸟在哪里过夜是一件非常好的事。
如果你在恋爱，为什么你要睡觉？
Kabir (1398-1447):
O friend, I love you, think this over carefully!
If you are in love,
then why are you asleep?
噢，朋友，我爱你，好好想想这个！
如果你在恋爱，
为什么你要睡觉？
If you have found him,
give yourself to him, take him.
如果你已找到祂，
把你自己交给他，带着祂。
Why do you lose track of him again and again?
为什么你一而再再而三地失去他的踪迹？
If you are about to fall into heavy sleep anyway,
why waste time smoothing the bed
and arranging the pillows?
如果你终究要睡死，
干嘛还要浪费时间去抚平床铺
以及摆置枕头？
Kabir will tell you the truth: this is what love is like:
suppose you had to cut your head off
and give it to someone else,
what difference would that make?
卡比尔将告诉你真相：爱也像这样：
假设你必须砍下自己的头
并将其交给别人，
那还会有什么不一样吗？
有一只鸟坐在这棵树里面
生活愉悦之处就是它跳舞的地方