为生命而游戏
Isha Gramotsavam, a celebration of rural life and rejuvenation is taking place on December 9, in Coimbatore. The festival showcases the essence of rural Tamil Nadu, through an elaborate display of rural art, drama, dance, music and food specialties. The event will also highlight the role of sports in rural life by featuring the final rounds of the inter-village sports tournament. In this article, Sadhguru looks at how sports can be truly life-transforming, and speaks of how it has brought about a huge change in rural Tamil Nadu.
Isha乡村运动会，这项庆祝和复兴农村生活的庆典将于12月9日在哥印拜陀开幕。这个节日通过展示农村艺术、戏剧、舞蹈、音乐和特色美食展现了Tamil邦（泰米尔纳德邦）农村的文化精华。该活动也通过村与村间的决赛来强调体育在农村生活中的角色。在此文中，萨古鲁阐述了体育如何能真正转化生命，以及体育为Tamil邦农村所带来的巨大变化。
Sadhguru: The English expression, “Are you game?” simply means, “Are you ready for life?” Playing a game or a sport is an essential ingredient to build a healthy life – physically, mentally, and spiritually. The most important aspect of playing a game or sport is that you cannot do it half-heartedly. You may go to your work half-heartedly, you may handle your marriage half-heartedly, but you cannot play a sport half-heartedly. Unless you involve yourself, there is no game.An essential part of playing a sport is absolute involvement. This is why a football game happening somewhere in another part of the world can make a billion people stand up and scream in their homes. Just the tremendous involvement the players are showing is what brings this simple sport alive. This involvement also brings a fundamental spirit into everyone which is essential for life. No one can play a game unless they really want to win. At the same time, it is alright if you lose. This is a significant quality to bring into one’s life – handling both your victory and your failure gracefully.
Sadhguru（萨古鲁）：英文表达“Are you game?”的意思就是：“你为生命做好准备了吗？”玩游戏或者体育运动是构建包括身体、心理和灵性层面的健康生活的核心要素。玩游戏或运动的最重要面向就是，你不能半心半意地参与。你可以半心半意地工作，半心半意地处理婚姻，但你不能半心半意地玩游戏。除非你投入自己，否则就没有游戏而言。玩游戏的一个核心要素是绝对的全然投入。这就是为什么在世界另一端的足球（世界杯）可以让十亿人在家里站起来、疯狂尖叫。正是球员们展现出的这种巨大投入感让这个简单的运动充满活力。这种投入感也给每个人带来了基本的灵性，而这对于生命而言是不可或缺的。除非一个人真的想赢，否则他无法玩游戏；但与此同时，如果输了，也没关系。优雅地面对胜与败，这种重要的品质应该进入人们的生命。
So it is important to bring sport to every human being on the planet. Particularly in our country, we want to ensure that we start a movement of sports in a big way. If sport is used as an entry point, social transformation, economic revitalization and spiritual development of the human being can be very easily introduced into societies.
所以为地球上的每个人引入运动是非常重要的。尤其在我们国家，我们想要确保我们大范围地展开运动之潮。如果运动被作为一个切入点，社会转化、经济复苏以及个人的灵性发展就很容易被引入社会。
Celebrating Life
庆祝生命
India is a country which had a festival for every day of the year. The whole culture was constantly in a state of celebration. If today was the day to plough the land, it was one kind of celebration. If tomorrow was the day to plant, it was another kind of celebration. If the next day was the day to weed, it was another kind of celebration. The harvest, of course, was an elaborate celebration. People were truly “game for life” and celebrated every aspect of it. Slowly, this celebratory culture has moved into a state of depression. A large part of the Indian population, which is in the rural areas of the country, has lost this celebratory mood completely, mainly because of a few generations of abject poverty. But by introducing sport into the culture, it can do miracles.
印度是一个一年的每一天都有节日的国家。曾经整个文化总是处于不断的庆祝中。如果今天是犁地的日子，就会有一种庆祝。明天该种植了，又会有另一种庆祝。后天该除草了，还会有另一种庆祝。丰收，当然，就更会有精心安排的庆祝。人们真的是“为生命而游戏”，庆祝它的每一个面向。慢慢地，这种庆祝的文化变为抑郁的状态。印度大部分人口是在农村地区，他们完全失去了庆祝的心情，主要由于几代人都饱受赤贫折磨。但是通过将体育引入文化，奇迹可以发生。
Sport is a simple way of making a human being function beyond his limitations, with a certain exuberance of life. At Isha, we have effectively used sport as an entry activity to revitalize rural societies through our project,Action for Rural Rejuvenation.
体育是一种让人类超越其局限、带着某种生命的丰盛感去运作的简单方法。在Isha，我们通过我们的社会项目（Action for Rural Rejuvenation，农村复兴行动）有效地使用体育作为一个切入点，来复兴农村社会。
Initially, when we tried to go into the rural community with our programs and projects, there was a big resistance because of the caste and creed distinctions. We decided to bring sport in, and this made a world of difference. Now, whoever played the game well became the important person in the village. No one was concerned about his caste, creed, or parentage anymore. This is the significance of sports, that once you are into it, who you are and what you are doing right now becomes most important – not who your father was. Every man is valued for his worth, not for what he has been. You don’t see anyone in the country asking, “Which caste does Mahendra Singh Dhoni belong to?” because no one is bothered about it. What he does on the field is all that matters to us.
起初，当我们带着我们的项目试图走进农村社群时，面临了非常大的阻碍——由于种姓和信仰的分隔。我们决定把体育带入，而这带来了翻天覆地的变化。现在，不管是谁，只要他运动出色，就成了村里的重要人物。没有人在乎他的种姓、信仰或身世。这就是体育的重要性，一旦你投入其中，你是谁以及你在做什么变成了最重要的——而非你的父亲是谁。每一个人都因其自身的价值而受到珍视，而不是因为他的背景。你不会看到任何人问：“Mahendra Singh Dhoni（译者注：印度著名板球运动员）属于哪个种姓？”因为没人关心这一点。他在板球场上的表现是唯一我们看重的。
Changing Rural Tamil Nadu
改变Tamil邦的农村
Another important aspect of sport is the level of physical fitness it brings. Today, among rural communities in India, musculoskeletal problems are one of the three major health issues. After we brought sport into action, we also introduced yoga, and this has brought a huge change in the way people live. People have grown out of their smoking and drinking addictions and are now working to be fit because they want to get into the sports teams.
体育的另一个重要面向就是它有利于身体健康。今天，印度的农村中，肌肉骨骼的问题是三大健康问题之一。我们带来运动后，还引入了瑜伽，这为人们的生活方式带来了巨大的改变。人们脱离了吸烟酗酒的嗜好，并且在努力变得健康，因为他们想要加入体育团队中。
The kind of involvement that sport has brought about in the rural communities in Tamil Nadu, irrespective of gender and age, is remarkable. Particularly, many older women have never played a game in their life after they were six or seven years of age. Now, at the age of seventy, they come and participate in the tournaments! There is such joy and pleasure of watching these inter-village tournaments, where the older women actually play with the youth and win the games. This is the miracle of sport.
体育为Tamil邦农村群体带来的投入感，不论何种性别或年龄，都是相当显著的。尤其，很多年长的女性自她们六七岁以后就再未玩过游戏。现在，在70岁的年纪，她们来参加巡回赛！观看这些村与村间的巡回赛，看到年长的女性和年轻人比赛并赢了，这真是让人无比的快乐和满足。这是体育带来的奇迹。
This is an incredible movement that has started in Tamil Nadu, and we want to see that this happens to the whole country. The idea is not necessarily about developing a competitive sport, but to bring the spirit of sport into everyone’s life – to make everyone “game for life.”
这是我们在Tamil邦开启的一项不可思议的运动，我们想要在整个国家看到它的发生。其目的不一定是为了发展竞争性体育，而是将体育精神带入每个人的生命——让每个人都“game for life”——为生命做好准备。
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