preaching through silence!!! ...

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dear s,

 

namaskarams!

 

yes, most definitely! the 'silence' that swami Rama is refrring to

is the 'silent' diksha that shri ramana maharishI imparted to his

students!

swami dakshinamurthy gave to the four sages that sat under the tree

the 'silent' diksha -

 

you are absolutely correct in your interpretation of swami rama's

words...

 

"The best of all knowledge, the greatest of all powers, come

from silence"

 

this type of silent teaching is more 'powerful' and more 'direct' ...

this is the spiritual force which many people experience in the

presence of great saints like shri ramana - disciples who sat in His

SATSANGHA experienced this 'silent' power that quitened their minds -

a state of inner peace ...

 

this was the type of teaching that was imparted by sage

dakshinamurthy to the four disciples who sat with him under a tree -

who experienced the 'sels' (atma-jnana) through the power of the

great sage dakshinamurthy's silence... ( please read adi shankara's

sloka on srhri dakshinamurthy- a great explanation is given regarding

mauna diksha or silent instructions)

 

Thus, true sat-sangha is one where you are sitting in the presence of

a self-realized person... this need not even be physical... mere

contemplation is enough! for such a realized person sends out

powerful waves of spiritual power!

 

dear s, i would like to narrate a story which shri ramana was fond of

narrating to his disviples! , which demonstrates the power of the

Guru's silence.

 

Tattvaraya composed a Bharani, a kind of poetic composition in Tamil,

in honour of his Guru Swarupananda, and convened an assembly of

learned Pandits (pundits) to hear the work and assess its value. The

Pandits raised the objection that a Bharani was only composed in

honour of great heroes capable of killing a thousand elephants in

battle and that it was not in order to compose such a work in honour

of an ascetic.

 

Thereupon the author said, "Let us all go to my Guru and we shall

have this matter settled there."

 

They went to the Guru and, after they had all taken their seats, the

author told his Guru the purpose of their visit. The Guru sat silent

and all the others also remained in mouna (silence). The whole day

passed, the night came, and some more days and nights, and yet all

sat there silently, no thought at all occurring to any of them and

nobody thinking or asking why they had come there. After three or

four days like this, the Guru moved his mind a bit, and the people

assembled immediately regained their thought activity. They then

declared, `Conquering a thousand elephants is nothing beside this

Guru's power to conquer the rutting elephants of all our egos put

together. So certainly he deserves the Bharani in his honour!

"

 

 

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