UG on Silence

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How can you understand that silence

-- chaotic or otherwise?

 

Is it possible for you to capture that silence?

 

When that silence starts operating through you,

it is something extraordinary,

something vital and living.

 

This structure which is trying to understand

the nature of it, capture it, contain it

or give expression to it, cannot co-exist with it.

 

 

 

 

The difficulty is you seem to know

a lot about this state -- you have imagination.

 

You imagine it to be what is described

as " Silence is Brahman " and begin to

think about it.

 

This imagination must go.

 

That [silence] is something living

and the structure which is trying

to capture it is a dead structure.

 

You are all dead.

 

You are not living human beings at all.

 

You have never known one living

moment in your life.

 

You are living the lives of your thoughts.

 

All thoughts are dead --

it doesn't matter whose thoughts --

whether those of Shankara, of Ramanuja

or of the hundreds of sages, saints and

saviors we have had and perhaps have still.

 

It is useless to try to understand that.

 

How can you capture it?

 

 

 

If there is any such thing as silence,

chaotic or otherwise, living or dead,

it will begin to express itself.

 

When it expresses itself

~~~~~~~you are not there.~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

So, you will never know the nature of

that silence at all.

 

What you call silence is not silence at all.

 

 

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