Silence

 

Everything seems like an effort nowadays. Too much noise, too much clarification, too much justification. Even when I think about a concept, there is a need to justify thinking! I don’t think that thinking exists for justifying anything at all. Thinking is one of the modes of expression of manifestation and just as space-time fabric is created because of manifestation, or vibration in consciousness, similarly thinking (as a form) happens because of vibration.

So this means that all intents, signals, tendencies, patterns emerge from consciousness. We choose to catch those vibrations or intents and that is the way we begin to perceive ourselves and the Universe. It is upto us what we wish to perceive. The Universe/ manifestation and consciousness in turn, perceives ‘us’ at the same time. So ‘I’ (as a consciousness) am listening!

The topic I wish to write about today is this: the value of silence and slowing down. This can be explained philosophically also in terms of vibrations, intensity and frequency of vibrations and how does consciousness lie beyond that.

But I think that just by observing and being silent and restricting the urge or the compulsion to act, the mind can get stronger and expand beyond its own boundaries. Verbosity may offer clarity, but it also means increased justification and thicker self imposed boundary. Knowing or blabbering tons of information may just be a disguise to conceal deeper vulnerabilities or to dodge fear or to brush aside the decoding of insecurity or the clinging tendency of the force.

The truth of manifestation is an unending and a fluid journey. WE are phenomenon, so our awareness of ‘life’ remains in a fluid state. Whatever we think or do or decide or act – is all embedded in this manifested (make believe) world. The basic issue is about momentum or the desire to do something. Desire again, is dependent on the belief in a separate entity – us. This keeps us on the edge and makes us perform. This creates expectations again, we keep running in this maze of thoughts. It is a self perpetuated algorithm of performing even when the body may not be able to support.

This running and clinging and expecting and refining and justifying and competing are enormous energy that all worldly possessions cannot satisfy or relinquish. The answer does not lie in craving for ‘more’ and running after it. On the contrary, the answer (or the approach) lies in renunciation. Give up this craze of running. Give up this craze of fulfillment of desires. Give up this idea of ego and performance and what not! Turn the attention inward, see the waves and do not identify with them. These waves will die down eventually. IF this seems to be the approach, then why work at all?

This is a difficult question. And nobody knows why one needs to keep engaging. It is a fundamental nature perhaps – of consciousness that it keeps vibrating. One may exist in a state of vibration or be consciousness itself – but one either takes a form or remains formless. Taking a form means loads of attachments, momentum and memory and change. Even when the form is taken then, the requirement is to realize the nature of manifestation.

By realizing the nature, the journey begins inward and consciousness is eventually realized. The journey is solitary. What I see, I may not be able to communicate. Whatever I communicate, you will hear only that, which your mind accepts. Whatever your mind accepts, you will respond depending on your own tendency. So there is a difference in the communication of the message and the difference lies because perceptions of two individuals are on separate plains because of their unique nature of imagination.

Consciousness is not to be communicated – it is to be realized in ‘us’. Speaking about consciousness is incidental. However that does not short circuit our required efforts.

All talk about hobby, and passion and work and other things are still – a talk. Who are you proving and for what? The answer is only in observance. The answer is only in silence, wherein silence means no vibration of any kind.