About Silence And Listening

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Hearing is a natural phenomenon to normal ears. Listening is a conscious phenomenon from a willing mind. It is possible that with a normal ear I can hear but not listen. And it is also possible that with a deaf ear I may not hear but listen.

When our mind is busy talking or preparing to talk for our turn We miss the point, because we couldn’t listen.

We may not listen when nothing is being said And we may not listen when people are shouting at us.

We can listen when we are sensitive to the voiceless. We may listen when we are cooking assumptions in our minds.

We may not need a doctor to tell us, what has happened to us If we can listen directly from our body, but do we have that mind, who listens? All-time chattering mind can not listen.

We don’t need a judge to tell us that we have done injustice If we can listen directly from our conscience that this is the time to take punishment. But are we that much honest? A prejudiced mind cannot listen.

Can our surrounding talk to us? Of course, without an instrument of speaking, Tree, wall, street, plants, and objects in our surroundings can talk to us!

How do we know they are talking? Sound is the vibration in the medium which we can hear all the time but An insensitive mind misses listening.

When a frequency is too low we are not able to pay attention to listen. It is like listening to a mute person We need to listen with a lot of patience

But this skill payback a lot Because a surrounding which is tongueless Always vibrates the Truth And this helps us knowing our truth as well.

If we can tune to the objects of the surrounding then we can listen to the truth from the food on our plate the Moorthi at Pooja alter the Photo on the wall the Objects in the room the Tree on the way and From the flower in a garden.

A sound can be voice or music or noise But, what is the difference among all these?

Voice belongs to life. Music belongs to instruments and nature. And noise is multiple voices and music get mixed up and humans not able to make sense.

Voice and music makes sense only When it is coming from the silence But when voice and music is coming with another voice and music then it is noise and not music! You cannot enjoy that longer.

The sound which comes to our ear Which is created by public festivals or prayers, May be music or noise It depends upon our state of mind or faith For some, it is pleasing, and for other it may be entertaining or and for the rest, it may be paining.

Have you spent some night or day In a forest or near a forest? All the insets and birds are talking aloud In a rhythmic way We cannot understand the voice but we enjoy the rhythm.

Have you ever sat under the tree When slow air is flowing? There is a sound from the leaves of the tree This is a music of nature We may not understand but we enjoy that.

Have you ever sat at the bank of a slow-flowing river? There is a sound of water, lives in the water jumping on the surface and creating a music And it soothes our mind

Have you ever thought Who is the mother of the sound?

What did you say? The object which is making a sound? oh, then you missed the point. It comes from silence!

More the silence better the sound Between the silence, there is a small sound we notice that which is between silence And miss that in which sound is packed. Silence is omnipresent, It does not live in the sound Sound lives in silence

Can you listen when you keep speaking? The more you speak less you listen.

So, you listen when there is silence. The silence of a mind is called peace. The silence of an environment which we enjoy is called the rhythm and beat of nature. A rhythm of flowing air, chirping birds, running water, and dancing fire.

Between two sounds in the surrounding Between two thoughts in the mind There is silence. In fact, this silence is so universal that We can say that between the two intervals of silences there is a spike of sound and spike of thought.

Without listening to anything from the surrounding Without listening to any sound from your own mind Can you listen to a possibility of music in the silence?

Silence is mother of Sound, It is like darkness. From silence all sound takes shape. Frequency is the shape of the sound.

From darkness even light takes shape. Frequency is the shape of light. And in the presence of light objects in their shapes are visible

Sound can be identified only when it displaces the silence Light can be praised only when it displaces darkness Without darkness and silence, what is light and what is sound?

What is that which is all pervasive in existence? Even present at the place where the light of the sun can’t reach in the sky. And no air exists? It is darkness and silence.

What is that on the back of which light and sound play like a child? It is mother who is dark, Kaali It is father who is silence, Shiva

Our non stop talking and showing off to others, Make us sick to ourselves and to others around us.

Thus take a rest while keeping body on the lap of Kaali And head on the lap of Shiva.

Have you ever thought In the night when you get extremely tired and fall on the bed. What is that which picks you immediately from your body and takes you to a no man’s land And in the morning drop you back again in your body?

Just after waking up From a deep sleep someday ask yourself where were you two minutes back?

And in answer don’t refer to the body and say I was here on the bed but refer to one who enjoyed the travel to noman’s land In silence and darkness

O Pratibmba, one who could listen and enjoy the music of silence Can communicate with unmanifest Can communicate with unfolded time Can know the formless cause of creation.

Hari Om Tat Sat Your Truly Hari