Silence
symbolizes opportunity to see / think without hearing. Growth gave objects /
events / scenarios and ushered lesser of silence every moment. Later, silence was
lost, as boredom (aversion to silence) was unacceptable and intolerable.
Slowly and
unknowingly, silence got deliberately / compulsorily / forcefully abandoned. Loss
of silence created, inability in understanding and feeling, the clarity of
truth. In the words of André Maurois “Men fear silence as they fear solitude,
because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life’s nothingness”.
Sojourn stay in nothingness and the truth it spills, instills
the thought of escape from Silence. Surprisingly,
it is the moments of silence which bring back the reality of the lost truth.
The inseparableness of silence is made to realize by Sri Chinmoy in his poem on
silence:
“What you can do: You can criticize silence, You can ignore silence.
What you cannot do: You cannot sit even one fleeting minute In silence.
Yet one day It is you and you alone Who will marry silence
And become inseparably one With silence-sky.”
What you cannot do: You cannot sit even one fleeting minute In silence.
Yet one day It is you and you alone Who will marry silence
And become inseparably one With silence-sky.”
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