A student wonders, how can I follow my passion if it has nothing to do with my studies? Instead of trying to enhance one’s passion, Sadhguru responds, one must develop aptitude?
一位学生感到困惑，假如我热爱的事情和我的学习毫无关系，我该如何追随我的热情呢？萨古鲁回应道，与其试着提升热情，一个人更应发展自身的能力。
Question: Namaskaram Sadhguru. For someone like me who is in a place where his schedule consists of studies, but his passion is nowhere related to studies, how do I go about it?
问：你好萨古鲁。对于像我这类人来说，我们的时间表被学习填满，但是我的热情跟我学习的东西却毫无关系，我应该怎么做？
Sadhguru: One should have a certain aptitude, talent, and an appropriate amount of passion. If you have too much passion, but not enough aptitude and talents, this passion will burn you down. Your aptitude and your talent is what you have to enhance, not your passion. If you are passionate about music, for example, if you sing or play an instrument in such a way that it will make everybody sit up and be enthralled by it, then your teachers will be attending your concert every day rather than teaching you something else. So instead of just burning with passion, work upon your aptitude and your talent. “Oh, they’re not giving me time. They’re asking me to learn physics, chemistry.” You know, if somebody asks a boring question in the satsang, immediately I am playing some music to myself.
萨古鲁：一个人必须拥有一定的能力、才华以及适当的热情。如果你有太多的热情，但是没有足够的能力和才华，这个热情会把你烧毁。你必须去提升你的能力和才华，而不是你的热情。打个比方，假如你热爱音乐，如果你的歌唱或演奏能让所有人引起注意并陶醉其中，那么你的老师会每天都来参加你的音乐会，而不是尝试着教你一些其他东西。因此与其只是满腔热血，不如认真地去提升你的能力和才华。“哦，但是他们不给我时间。他们让我学物理、化学。”你知道吗，如果有人在satsang上问我一个无聊的问题，我会立马在我的脑子里放音乐（这样就什么都听不见了）。
Music comes not because of playing or singing. Music comes because of your ability to listen. How keen your ears are, that is how good you are with music. It is not necessary that you must have a great voice or a great something else to become a musician. You must have a great ear so that when you listen to something, you can decipher between the many layers of sound that are happening at any given place. No teacher in this school is capable of listening to the ka, ka (Referring to sound of crows) and make a composition. Ka, ka, ka, ka not sa, ri, ga, ma.
音乐并非诞生于演奏或歌唱。音乐诞生于你聆听的能力。你的耳朵有多么敏锐，你就能多大程度地体会到音乐。想成为一位音乐家并不需要拥有一把好嗓子或其他伟大的东西。但是你一定要拥有一对伟大的耳朵，这样当你开始去聆听，你能解析各个音节发出的层次丰富的声音。在这学校没有一个老师能够去倾听这ka、ka（指乌鸦叫）并写下一首歌。是Ka、ka、ka、ka，不是 sa、ri、ga、ma（泰米尔语中的do、re、mi、so）。
Because the kaka (Referring to crow in Tamil) does not do ka, ka all the time in the same way. It does it in different pitches and it has a whole range. If you pay attention to it, just about everything has a certain geometry. All sounds have a certain geometry. If you listen carefully, there is music. This way, you are going on increasing aptitude. If your aptitude becomes such that no one can ignore you, do not worry about the passion people will carry you up. You do not have to show passion. You only have to show aptitude.
因为kaka（泰米尔语里指乌鸦）并不总是以同一种方式ka、ka地叫。它有不同的音高并覆盖了整个音阶。如果你留心，所有东西都具有某种几何结构。所有声音都拥有特定的几何结构。如果你很用心地倾听，那就是音乐。通过这种方式，你的能力会与日俱增。如果你的能力强到无人可以忽视你，无需再考虑热情，众人都会支持你。你不需要展示你的热情。你只需要展示你的能力。
So do not work on your passion. Let the passion sleep. Let the aptitude burn. If aptitude burns, it will enhance you. If passion burns, it will burn you down one day. There is a place for you in this school, there are lots of noises. You can make music out of them. If an engine is roaring, can you not make music out of it? Everything has a pitch. Everything has a rhythm. If you just catch it right, it is there. It is constant application which makes it happen. Not, “Oh, I should have been in a music school. I am in a chemistry class right now, “Tch. That is not going to help. You will neither get this nor that. Do not waste your time enhancing your passion. “I have passion for music, but I have no aptitude.” Other people should show passion wanting to listen to your music.
因此不要去提升你的热情。让热情沉睡。让能力燃烧。如果能力燃烧了，它会提升你。如果热情燃烧着，它总有一天会把你烧焦。在这个学校，有个地方适合你，那里有很多嘈杂的声音。你能从中提取音乐。如果一个引擎正在咆哮，你能从中提取音乐吗？所有东西都有一个音高，所有东西都有一个节奏。如果你能够准确地抓住它，它就在那里。能做到这样是因为持续的练习。而不是“哎，我本该在一所音乐学校。但我现在正在一堂化学课上呆着，”啧，这种想法毫无帮助。到最后你将什么都得不到。不要浪费时间在提升你的热情上。“我热衷于音乐，但是我没有能力。” （你应该做的是）让其他人充满热情地想要来听你的音乐。
Love&Grace,
Sadhguru
爱与恩典
萨古鲁
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