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Everything begins and ends with Silence…
We arrived on our mother Earth in silence, until we took in our first breath and wailed out and got introduced to the world of chatter…
The fortunate got immediately surrounded by those who loved us, cared for us and gave us their full attention. Our introduction into the world of sounds and conversations expanded our world and we grew. We were exposed to energy vibrations all around us, positive and negative, which took part in our mental growth – happiness and sadness, clarity and confusion, beliefs and doubts, questions and answers started shaping our personality, and gradually we forgot what it meant to be silent.
We went to schools and we learned the art and the science, the history, geography and math…yes schools taught us all, but the most important life lessons were missed. Those in charge forgot to make the most critical aspects – teachings on life and living – a part of the school curriculum.
Such teaching and learning became optional in the later years when these were needed the most…
In the world of confusion and doubts, sadness and anger, hostility and cheating, frustration and control, we gradually forgot compassion and kindness, love and faith, honesty and integrity, and the inner glow of content and gratitude left us. Mental chatter became a part of us. We forgot who we were. We forgot our very essence. We allowed everything external to us guide us and control us. In our confusion and daily drama, we even forgot to connect with our own Self. We forgot our Creator. Yes, chatter overwhelmed us leaving no room for reflections and answers within…
In our confusion, and when we started feeling choked, some of us steered ourselves towards the search for answers. We started relying on everything external for our answers. Some of us questioned and some of us accepted the outside answers blindly. We did not know how to use the external tools to come back inside us for our own reality. We failed to recognize our uniqueness, that the answers being provided were answers from others; that these answers were tools for us to use to find our own unique answers. We became robots.
Only if we remembered how we came to our mother earth – in silence, with one breath.
It is never too late.
Silence and breath do not cost money.
We need to create awareness, and use the tools around us to learn the art of meditation, self introspection and silence to find ourselves, be reintroduced to ourselves and learn to live, the way we were meant to live.
In joyful silence we came, in joyful silence we find answers and in joyful silence we will end our journey to come closer to our Source. :)
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Really, a beautiful one!
ReplyDeleteI was 20 when I had begun to practice meditations and had for the first time become aware of deep silence. Although, my mind rebelled a lot then..
Five years down the line, I persisted, and its only for the past few days that I am able to go into tremendously deep silence. And the experience is really divine..
But I never understood why my mind rebels and resists silence. Do our mind hate peace and silence? Why does it always need drama? Could u pls throw some light on this umangji?
Thank you for your input Sarvesh. Here are my thoughts on your question: Being in a state of silence is being in a state of Godliness, in my belief.How can being in a state of Godliness be that simple or easy? To find our Self, to find God, we have to overcome the innumerable distractions, the menatl chatter - this is the most difficult thing for a human to accomplish. This is only because of "greed" in the sense that we think and feel that we will miss out on something if we do not keep connecting every moment with the world outside of ourselves! So our mind resists going out of mental chatter every step of the way. When the yogis of yesterday "discovered" the art of meditation, that is going inwards and away from the external world, even for a few minutes at a time, they knew that it is extremely difficult but not impossible. Meditation is an art, a skill that with practice becomes better and better. The question is: Are we ready? :)
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