The Atman and so on, they are just theories.

有灵魂存在，但那只是理论而已。

The object of experience exists only to serve the purpose of the Atman.

经验的对象仅仅为服务于阿特漫的目的而存在。

The Atman shines forth in its own pristine nature, as pure consciousness.

曼 作为纯粹意识，在其自身的、纯洁本性中放射出光芒。

Question: Why should one bother about knowing the Atman? It is not necessarily practical.

问：为什么一个人必须去了解阿特曼？这是必须的实践？

He already knew to feel Atman in the depths of his being, indestructible, one with the universe.

他已学会如何在自我存在的深层体认识阿特曼——永恒不坏，与宇宙合一。

Ignorance is destroyed by awakening to knowledge of the Atman, until no trace of illusion remains.

摧毁无明的方法是唤醒阿特曼的认识，直到没有幻相残留。

What the ignorant imagine to be a "real" Atman and "real"dharmas are devoid of all objective existence.

愚夫妄以为有实我、实法，实际上此二者都无客观存在。

Since the gunas no longer have any purpose to serve for the Atman, they resolve themselves into Prakrit.

34当三德不在为阿特曼服务时，它们就分解成原质。

The Katha - upanishad, through the story of Nachiketa, discussed death and the permanence of the soul (Atman).

卡塔奥义书，通过尼兹卡塔的故事，论述了死亡与灵魂(生命的本源，自我)的持久性。

Do you realize that the totality of your mind is conditioned, including the part that is supposed to be the super-soul, the Atman?

你意识到你的头脑整体是受限的吗？包括被期待是超级灵魂、自性的那部份。

To know Atman means to know who we really are. To know who we are is important because we act according to what we think of ourselves.

去了解阿特曼意味着去知道我们真正是谁，“去知道我们是谁”之所以是重要的是因为我们的行为是依据我们对自我的设想。

To maintain this division man has invented so many concepts - the Hindus have extraordinary concepts, the Atman and so on - I won't go into all that.

为了维持这种分别，人类发明了如此多的概念-印度教徒有非凡的概念，a tman生命本源等等-我不会深入所有这些了。

It can build an image and give to that image a continuity, a permanency, calling it Atman or whatever you like, and it can remember the face of the husband or the wife and hold on to it.

它能建造一个意象并赋予那意象以延续性、永久性，称之为阿特曼或者无论你喜欢叫什么，它能记起丈夫或者妻子的脸庞并紧抓住不放。

Every one of my books has at least one sentence, usually buried, that says the following (this is the version found in the Atman project) : "There follows, then, the story of the Atman project."

此外不需要做什么。在我的每一本书里至少有一个潜藏的句子，诉说如下意思(见《阿特曼计划》The a tman Project)：“以下是阿特曼计划的故事。”