亲爱的何泳杉君:
这里郑重复信于君，以期略解君于4月17日所提的诸多问题之疑。
君之问题甚好！现尽吾之所能，将答案诉诸于此：
“既然“真实之自我”总是洁净的，那么它又是如何陷入混乱的呢？”这个问题在以往很多时代都曾反复出现。答案是：我们的真实自我从来不曾混乱和不完美过。之所以产生此种印象，仅仅是出自于“我们自以为我们是混乱和不完美的”这一错觉之中，它发生在我们的心灵和思想里面，而不是发生在“真实的自我”之中，所以我们需要的是洁净我们的心灵。道家的导师，以及佛教的净土宗亦作如是想。
不，这并不是一个原本没有黑暗的地方在某个时刻变得黑暗！
阿特曼（即“真实自我”）是超越于时间、空间和因果率的，它“永在，纯净，觉醒以及自由”！黑暗仅仅是由于缺少光，所以，它并非实存。
从根本上分析起来，摩耶并不存在，所有的错觉都发生在我们的内心和思想，而思想并不是我们的“真实自我”。那么试问：摩耶何由产生？这是一个无法解答的问题，正因为生命存在摩耶之中，我们才生发此疑。如果摩耶已去，该问题也就彻底消失。
“生命不完美”这一观念既然源于我们的内心，故束缚或者解脱也只能发生于此，那是一个喧嚣的心灵，它需要赢回自由，所以得在各个方向上不懈努力。于是，我们的精神实践即意味着洁净我们的心灵，而不是指净化“真实之自我”。
这种精神的净化过程是这样的：首先出现的是纷乱的思想，接着它们被单一思想所代替；然后抵达“无思想”；当“无思想”出现的时候，然后就进入“无心”，当“无心”出现，亦即抵达“真实自我”的独处之境。
真诚地献上
最美好的祝愿!
斯瓦米•帕拉南达
附上原文：
Dear He Yong Shan
This is in regards to your letter of April 17, placing before me some more questions.
Yore questions are very appropriate. I give the answers below, as far as I can
This question has (If the true Self is ever pure, how did it get entangled in) been raised in ancient times. The answer is: our true self has never become imperfect. It is due to delusion we think we are imperfect. This happens in our mind, not in our true self. So what is necessary is to purify our mind. Masters in Taoism, Or Buddhism of Pure Land School also say the same thing
No It is not that the room was not originally dark and it becomes dark at a point of time
The Atman (true Self) is beyond time, space and causation. It is ‘eternal, pure, awakened and free! The darkness is only absence of light. So it has no real existence
Maya has no existence in the ultimate analysis. All the delusion happens in our mind. And the mind is not our true self. Then whence comes the Maya? This is a question that cannot be answered because while being in Maya, we are raising this question. If Maya is gone, the question does not arise at all
The idea of our being imperfect happens in our mind. So bondage or liberation is only in the mind. It is the turbulent mind, which wants to get librated and so runs about in different directions. So our spiritual practice is meant for purifying the mind, not for purifying the true self.
And this purification comes when many thoughts is replace by one only thought, and from then to no thought. When there are no thoughts, then there is no mind. When there is no mind our true self-alone is.
With best wishes
Swami Smaranananda
(2006年)
这里郑重复信于君，以期略解君于4月17日所提的诸多问题之疑。
君之问题甚好！现尽吾之所能，将答案诉诸于此：
“既然“真实之自我”总是洁净的，那么它又是如何陷入混乱的呢？”这个问题在以往很多时代都曾反复出现。答案是：我们的真实自我从来不曾混乱和不完美过。之所以产生此种印象，仅仅是出自于“我们自以为我们是混乱和不完美的”这一错觉之中，它发生在我们的心灵和思想里面，而不是发生在“真实的自我”之中，所以我们需要的是洁净我们的心灵。道家的导师，以及佛教的净土宗亦作如是想。
不，这并不是一个原本没有黑暗的地方在某个时刻变得黑暗！
阿特曼（即“真实自我”）是超越于时间、空间和因果率的，它“永在，纯净，觉醒以及自由”！黑暗仅仅是由于缺少光，所以，它并非实存。
从根本上分析起来，摩耶并不存在，所有的错觉都发生在我们的内心和思想，而思想并不是我们的“真实自我”。那么试问：摩耶何由产生？这是一个无法解答的问题，正因为生命存在摩耶之中，我们才生发此疑。如果摩耶已去，该问题也就彻底消失。
“生命不完美”这一观念既然源于我们的内心，故束缚或者解脱也只能发生于此，那是一个喧嚣的心灵，它需要赢回自由，所以得在各个方向上不懈努力。于是，我们的精神实践即意味着洁净我们的心灵，而不是指净化“真实之自我”。
这种精神的净化过程是这样的：首先出现的是纷乱的思想，接着它们被单一思想所代替；然后抵达“无思想”；当“无思想”出现的时候，然后就进入“无心”，当“无心”出现，亦即抵达“真实自我”的独处之境。
真诚地献上
最美好的祝愿!
斯瓦米•帕拉南达
附上原文：
Dear He Yong Shan
This is in regards to your letter of April 17, placing before me some more questions.
Yore questions are very appropriate. I give the answers below, as far as I can
This question has (If the true Self is ever pure, how did it get entangled in) been raised in ancient times. The answer is: our true self has never become imperfect. It is due to delusion we think we are imperfect. This happens in our mind, not in our true self. So what is necessary is to purify our mind. Masters in Taoism, Or Buddhism of Pure Land School also say the same thing
No It is not that the room was not originally dark and it becomes dark at a point of time
The Atman (true Self) is beyond time, space and causation. It is ‘eternal, pure, awakened and free! The darkness is only absence of light. So it has no real existence
Maya has no existence in the ultimate analysis. All the delusion happens in our mind. And the mind is not our true self. Then whence comes the Maya? This is a question that cannot be answered because while being in Maya, we are raising this question. If Maya is gone, the question does not arise at all
The idea of our being imperfect happens in our mind. So bondage or liberation is only in the mind. It is the turbulent mind, which wants to get librated and so runs about in different directions. So our spiritual practice is meant for purifying the mind, not for purifying the true self.
And this purification comes when many thoughts is replace by one only thought, and from then to no thought. When there are no thoughts, then there is no mind. When there is no mind our true self-alone is.
With best wishes
Swami Smaranananda
(2006年)