THE ELOQUENCE OF ABSOLUTE SILENCE - SATYA VEDANT - COURTESY TIMES OF INDIA,

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Dear Bhagavat Banduvullara,

 

By courtesy : THE TIMES OF INDIA,

 

The Speaking Tree - The eloquence of Absolute Silence

 

- By Satya Vendant.

 

Recently I came across, the above wonderful article in Times of

India, and I felt that You should also go through the contents of

this magnificient analysis of Absolute Silence by Satya Vedant. Let

us assimilate and put into practice.

 

Here what Satya Vedant says

 

" Laws of science are not based on any belief system, they are

rooted in existential reality which is universal. Hence one who

follows a 'religion' can simply be religious but not a Hindu,

Musulim, or Christian. The existential reality for such a religious

identity is beyond birth, special identity or nationility. It is

universal. One may ask: If matter can exist by the same law

universally, why " God needs so many different laws to be? Why can

not God have the same universality? In order to realise this

universality, this oneness, this non-dvisibility of the phenomenon

called " God " , one needs to learn how to be silent.

 

Osho makes this point through a story. A monk was

once a guest in a village. The village people invited him to their

temple and asked him to say something about God. The monk

said, " please forgive me, so many have tried to explain God before

and yet no one seems heard or understood them. Please leave me

alone " . The people would not give up. So he agreed to meet them.

Please leave me alone " . The people would not give up. So he agreed

to meet them. He asid " Before I speak another word, tell me, do you

know if God exists? " . The villagers raised their hands in

affirmation. The monk said " Since you already know about God, there

is nothing left for me to say. You have known the Ultimate.

 

The people were keen on hearing the monk so they went again

begged him to come to the temple and speak. They had agreed amongst

themselves that if the monk asked them about God they will be honest

and deny they know anything. The monk asked them the same

question. " Have you experienced God? " The villaggers said " No, we

do not know anything about God, so please speak " . The monk

said, " Then the matter is over. If there is no God, then where is

the need to talk about Him? "

 

The peopple were at a loss, but they did not give up. They

made the request once again. They said " This time we have given a

great deal of thought and now we have a third answer to your

question " . The monk said, " That's meaningless. Truth is not

something one thinks about. Only lies need a lot of thinking. So go

away. "

 

The villagers begged him again to speak to them. The monk

arrived and again asked " Is there God? Do you Know? Have you

excperienced?. The villagers were prepared. So half of the

congregation raised hands and said " yes " : The remaining half raised

their hands and said God does not exist. The monk said, " Since half

of you know and half of you don't, why don't those of you who know

tell the others who don't?, Why do you need me to speak? and he left.

 

Later, someone asked the monk if he would have gone to the

temple the fourth time if the villagers had so requested. He said he

would have. " I waited for them to come once more, and if they had

given no reply to my question, if they had remained silent, I would

have had to speak-- for their silence would have proved they were

sincere about their quest " .

 

Osho says, one cannot say if God is or is not. All answers

are borrowed, given by others--in fact, byh those whom themselves

have never known God. Because had they known God, they would have

remained SILENT, too.