Shermy=Share with Me 六寶媽日誌

在臉書上看到Gaur Gopal Das演說的一段影片，因為內容實在是深具啟發，於是我決定用逐字稿加上翻譯記錄收藏，適時的提醒自己，與其提升生活品質，更該重視的是人生的心靈品質。影片：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxnf9YNoIR8

Whether you drive a Volkswagen or you drive a Bently,

The road remains the same isn’t it?

不論你開的是福斯還是賓利

道路都是一樣的，不是嗎？

Whether you speak on Samsung or you speak on an iphone X,

Whoever you are calling remains the same isn’t it?

不論你用三星還是iphone X通電話

通話的那一方都是一樣的，不是嗎？

Whether you are flying economy or you’re flying business,

The destination where you are heading remains the same isn’t it?

不論你搭經濟艙或是商務艙

前往的目的地都是一樣的，不是嗎？

Whether you are wearing a simple Fastrack or you wear an Omega or a Rolex,

The time remains the same isn’t it?

不論你帶的是Fastrack, Omega或勞力士

時間都是一樣的，不是嗎？

It’s quite amazing how we work ourselves up so much with increasing the standard of living that we forget to increase the standard of our life.

多令人驚訝啊！我們為了提升生活水平而努力的工作

努力到我們完全忘了提高自己的人生水平

And which is why wherever I travel, I make an appeal to people;

There’s nothing wrong with an Omega,

There’s nothing wrong with a Bently,

God bless you with that, and if you have it drive it-no problem.

這就是為什麼不論我到哪裡我都奉勸人們

Omega沒有什麼不對、賓利沒有什麼不對

這是神賜予你的，既然擁有，那就去使用

But in trying to enhance and increase and improvise the standard of your living,

Please, please do not compromise with the standard of your life.

但請千萬不要為了提升生活水平而與自我的人生水平妥協

It’s not the standard of your living that makes you happy,

It’s the standard of your life that makes you happy.

And very often, we forget to give attention to those things that can truly make us happy.

生活水平不會讓你感到快樂

人生水平才會

而我們常常都忘了去重視真正能讓我們感到快樂的人事物

Which is why I always say,

Things that I am talking about have utility value right?

Not happiness value.

這就是為什麼我常說

我所說的這些東西都有使用價值對吧？

但沒有快樂價值

Travel business class or first class, travel-no problem.

Drive a Bently, no problem.

搭商務艙或頭等艙，旅行，沒問題

開賓利，沒問題

But in doing so,

never ever compromise on those principles that also improve the standard of your life.

但為了能做到這樣

絕對不可以和那些能提升自我人生水平的原則妥協

And therefore, I always say

Some people are so poor, so poor, so absolutely poor

that all they have is money.

That’s all they have, that’s all they have.

因此我常說

有些人好窮、好窮、窮到一無所有

窮到只剩金錢

這就是他們唯一所擁有的，這就是他們唯一所擁有的

I consider that life a poverty stricken life.

If all you have is money, you are the poorest person in the world.

我認為生活是貧困艱辛的

如果你所擁有的只是金錢，那麼你將會是全世界最窮困的一個人

Because there is more to life than money

And there is way more to life than what money can buy.

因為生命遠非金錢而已

生命的價值遠非金錢所能購買

And therefore I many times say,

If you truly want to know how rich you are

因次我說了許多次，

如果你真的想知道自己有多富有

Drop a tear,

And see how many hands come to wipe that tear

流下一滴眼淚

然後看看有多少手前來擦拭這滴淚水

Our happiness and our increased standard of life

Are not in things, it’s in people. It’s relationship.

我們的快樂和人生水平

不是建立在物質上，而是建立在人與人的關係上

It’s meaningful , heartfelt deep bonding of love

That brings fulfilment to the heart.

是深具意義、緊密深繫的愛為我們的心帶來滿足感

It’s those meaningful exchanges of love that we share with each other in relationship

That bring true joy to the heart

是我們在關係中彼此互相分享、深具意義的愛的交換

為我們的心帶來快樂

And isn’t it the greatest irony,

That something that  brings the greatest fulfilment

We very convenient neglect in just running after increasing and enhancing the standard of living.

然而那些能帶給我們最大滿足的事物

卻是我們在追求提升生活水準時輕易就忽略的事物

難道這不是最大的諷刺嗎？