真正的自由


【今天谈真正的自由。火车如此笨重却能日行千里,只因为它行驶在固定的轨道上。我们学工艺讲方法,学艺术讲要领,要提升人格就要讲求遵守原则了。遵守原则不但不是一件苦差,还会给我们带来完整的快乐。这里蕴藏着快乐的秘密。】


当说:真正的自由包括在服从于我的诫命之中,你对此所知不多。假使人们能够遵从我从启示的天堂降赐予他们的诫命,他们将肯定获得彻底的自由。祂从上天意愿之天堂所揭示的上天的旨意涵盖一切创造物,能够理解的人是快乐的。当说:那对你有益的自由只可以从全心服务上天——那永恒的真理——那里得到,无法他求。凡是尝过了这自由之甜美的人,将拒绝以人间和天上所有的统治作为交换。——巴哈欧拉


李开璇译(2015年10月21日)

Say: True liberty consisteth in man’s submission unto My commandments, little as ye know it. Were men to observe that which We have sent down unto them from the Heaven of Revelation, they would, of a certainty, attain unto perfect liberty. Happy is the man that hath apprehended the Purpose of God in whatever He hath revealed from the Heaven of His Will, that pervadeth all created things. Say: The liberty that profiteth you is to be found nowhere except in complete servitude unto God, the Eternal Truth. Whoso hath tasted of its sweetness will refuse to barter it for all the dominion of earth and heaven.—— Baha’u’llah

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