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他为何从最初的“痴情”，到最后的郁郁而终……

索达吉堪布国际佛学网 2018-06-01

痴情不是奇迹

Infatuation falls short of miracles

举世闻名的印度泰姬陵，号称“世界七大奇迹之一”，从它的故事中也可以发现万法无常之理。

The Taj Mahal, the magnificent monument that stands at the heart of India, is regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The story behind it also reveals the law of impermanence that underscores all phenomena.

泰姬陵，是印度国王沙·贾汗为爱妃芭奴所建。

The Taj Mahal was built by the Indian Emperor, Shah Jahan, in memory of his beloved wife, Arjumand Banu, to whom he bestowed the name “Mumtaz Mahal.”

据说芭奴是一位绝世美女，她21岁时就嫁给了三王子库拉姆，即后来的沙·贾汗。

Banu was said to be an unsurpassable beauty, and at the age of twenty-one she married the third prince of the Mughal Emperor, Prince Khurram.

婚后二人同甘共苦，形影相随，足迹遍布疆场。

The couple remained together through life’s ups and downs, including many of the prince’s military campaigns.

之后，库拉姆经过一场血战，继承了王位，他给自己取名为沙·贾汗，意为“世界之王”。

Later, after a brutal coup, Price Khurram seized the throne and gave himself the title Shah Jahan, which meant “King of the World.”

但是好景不长，芭奴在跟随沙·贾汗南征时，因难产而死，当时年仅39岁。在她临死前，沙·贾汗紧拥着奄奄一息的爱妃，问她还有什么心愿。芭奴告诉他，只希望能拥有一座举世无双的陵墓……

But their happy days did not last long. Banu died during childbirth at the age of thirty-nine while accompanying Shah Jahan to a battle in the south.

芭奴之死，令沙·贾汗悲痛欲绝。

The emperor was grief-stricken and inconsolable after Banu’s death.

为了表达相思之情，他倾举国之力，耗费无数钱财，下令2万余名工匠参与建造，历时22年才完成了这座洁白晶莹的泰姬陵。

To commemorate his love, he exhausted all of his empire’s resources and wealth to build a mausoleum.It took twenty thousand workers and twenty-two years to complete this immaculate, glittering white Taj Mahal.

此陵竣工之后，沙·贾汗残忍地下令砍掉所有工匠的拇指，因为他仍记得爱妃的遗愿——拥有一座“举世无双”的陵墓，他不希望看到另一座可与泰姬陵媲美的建筑出现在这个世界上。

Legend even has it that to ensure his wife’s mausoleum would remain unique in the world, he ordered all the craftsmen’s thumbs to be amputated so that the masterpiece could never be replicated.

沙·贾汗本想在河对面再为自己造一座一模一样的黑色陵墓，

The emperor planned to build himself a black mausoleum across the bank of the river so that his body would rest opposite his wife’s.

中间用半边白色、半边黑色的大理石桥连接，与爱妃相对而眠。
A bridge made of marble—half white and half black—would connect the two mausoleums.

谁知泰姬陵刚完工不久，他儿子就弑兄杀弟篡位，他也被囚禁在离泰姬陵不远的阿格拉堡。

However, soon after the completion of the Taj Mahal, his third son defeated his elder brothers, usurped the throne, and put his father in house arrest at Agra Fort, not too far from the Taj Mahal.

此后整整8年时间里，他每天只能透过小窗，凄然地遥望着远处河中的泰姬陵倒影。

For eight years, Shah Jahan could only look sadly through a tiny window at the reflections of the Taj Mahal in the distant river.

临终前，他视力恶化，仅借着一颗宝石的折射来痴心地凝望着泰姬陵。

Near the end of his life, with most of his eyesight gone, he still longingly caught glimpses of the magnificent mausoleum reflected on a piece of jewel.

即使最初再不可一世，到最后也会郁郁而终，

Emperor Shah Jahan had been enormously powerful, yet, in the end, he died in humiliation and grief.

可见，这世上没什么是常有的。

Isn’t it obvious, then, that nothing in the world ever stays unchanging?

索达吉堪布《做，才是得到》

Khenpo Sodargye《Achieve by Doing》

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