THE SOUND OF SILENCE
It is possible with the help of the NC
practice, once you reach the absolute silence in your mind, wherein you never
get disturbed by the material sound. The
minute sounds in the silence are the things which are going to guide in your
life. This happens when you are able to
increase your inner strength by the help of NC practice on silence. Wait for the moment, when you, the observer
in silence, can experience the traces of sound in the absolute silence.
RELATION BETWEEN
GOD AND SILENCE
First of all, we have to understand that the so called God has originated from the silence. Silence is the mother and god is the product. Since the God has originated from the silence, God is very close to the silence and whoever is able to activate the God within can also experience the silence. The concept of God has come when the power is drawn from the silence for making use in this material world. That is why God is Omnipotent but the silence is omnipresent. This Omnipotent God can take you to the omnipresent silence, when once the God is expanded in you with the help of a silent practice.
Nisarga Chetana offers a practical
training on silence which will naturally take you to the God and also further
into silence. The powerful God inside you becomes your Guide, by creating
signals in the silence, i.e. by causing traces of sound in the silence. Once
you are fully equipped, the energy of the God within you, with the help of the
expansion of the soul, further takes you into the world of silent energy-less
energy. When you start experiencing the absolute silence in your mind, this
Omnipotent God -though It seem to be silent- will create traces of sound in the
silence to guide you towards the Ultimate.
TRAINING ON SILENCE
TO REACH THE
ULTIMATE
So, we require a training and practice
to obtain this mental silence, which is not possible by your trials. NC
training is introduced to the world to train the people on silence, so that
they can practice the mental silence, with absolute peace.
Mental disturbances are the creations of
our own. These creations can be evacuated from the mind during the practice of
NC on silence. This practice confirms the practitioner on the experience of
silence, which is naturally associated with peace. This practical experience of silence will
take you to further silence, still further silence and so on. The practitioner
ultimately reaches a condition of absolute silence which will give the
experience of God. Since God is also
silent, all your trials on sound cannot make you reach the silent God.
Since the
God inside us, in the form of soul or ‘Atman’, is silent always, the expansion
of the soul can happen only through silence. This silent expansion of the soul
takes you to various silences which form the beginning of the journey towards
the Ultimate Silence.
Sometimes silence speaks to you,
whenever there is a need for guidance.
That comes automatically, when your mind starts experiencing the
Ultimate silence. The practitioner need
not worry about anything in this world; because the power of silence is greater
than any power in this universe
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Silence is the Origin and silence is the
end. The entire Nature has come from silence. In fact, this Cosmos with a lot
of sounds and soundless materials as well as beings originated from silence.
The purity of silence is not available
in sound. Sound divides and silence unites. The inner core of every being and
non-being is living in silence.
Thoughts are from silence. Thoughts do
not belong to sound; because it is coming from the inner core of the mind or
heart. When thoughts come, we are aware because of silence. Thoughts cannot be
read in sound. Since the thoughts belong to silence, they can be destroyed with
silence. When the thoughts are removed, silence only stays back.
The Creator or the Origin is in silence.
Any creation in the Nature (‘garbha’) is done in the silence. In the
‘garbhavastha’, the ‘sisu’ keeps silence. If the mother also keeps silence,
growth of the baby will be automatic without any trouble.
Silence is practiced by
observance(‘vratha’). By maintaining silence of mouth (‘mouna vratha’), we stop
producing sound; but we are not in silence. Silence of the mind is actually not
disturbed by sound. When the purity is increasing in the mind, the sound
vanishes; because sound – the inner sound- cannot stay in absolute purity. Outer
sound or the sound of the material world has nothing to do with the inner
silence.
This inner silence is available in every
being as the soul or the inner consciousness. Because of the sound in the mind,
the mind is not perceiving or experiencing the inner silence. The continuous
thoughts of the mind disturb the original silence of the mind. As a result, the
inner consciousness or silence is not able to expand and reach our mind. When
we are able to bring the purity in our mind, the thoughts vanish and the
purified mind experiences the inner silence or the soul in the silence.
This is not possible for a common man
who has continuous transactions in the mind. These transactions create thoughts
in the mind and the thoughts never move away from him. If he is trying to bring
the thoughtless condition by soundful practice, it never leads to the result.
But, there is no practice available, in this universe, beginning with silence,
maintaining silence throughout the practice and also ending with silence.
Almost all practices end with silence,
trying to create the inner silence. Since they are ending up with silence, the
practitioners are able to experience the inner silence for a while, but not
permanently.
The condition of the Ultimate is
‘silence of silence’. There, no sounds are accepted; nor can you produce any
sound. Soundless practice only can help you to read the ultimate area of this
Nature or the Cosmos. This ultimate area consists of nothing except silence.
This silence is the cause and the Origin of everything in this universe.
One who
reaches this silence in the ultimate area gets the transformation of mind as follows:
1.
Loses the condition of duality
2.
Loses the condition of discrimination among the same
species
3.
Gains unexplainable courage
4.
Past affairs and incidents never disturb his life
5.
No botheration about future
6.
Things happen automatically in his life, without his
mental effort
7.
Absolute freedom from worries
8.
No remembrance of God or anything
9.
Experiences non-attachment, with attachment to the
attachments
10. Becomes
absolutely neutral, being neither positive nor negative
There are many other qualities that such
a person comes to possess, which cannot be detailed.
There are 7 stages in the journey towards the Ultimate. On every stage the practitioner undergoes different conditions and enlightenment happens.
The first stage for a practitioner is the craving or goal towards reaching the Ultimate. This craving makes him go around in search of a preceptor through whom he can reach the ultimate. If the search is sincere, then one day he will meet his guru.
When the craving gave him the result of reaching a guru, he finds a solace in his mind and starts observing his guru as to whether he is in a position to help him to reach his goal. He starts observing with due respect to his guru at the same time highly disciplined under the control of his teacher following his method. Sincerity must be there in the practitioner so that he may start experiencing the journey.
After experiencing something during the practice, his guru reveals him whether he can continue his practice under him or not. Probably he can start testing his teacher with due reverence and respect. In case the practitioner finds dissatisfaction in the guru and gets doubts on the capability of his guru, he can quit himself and try to find out an alternate teacher.
Since the aspirant is continuously craving to find an alternative in case he was not satisfied, he will find another guru by himself with the help of the Almighty. He can straight away test this guru on his condition and knowledge of the practice that he is practicing and if he finds satisfaction on his search he can continue his learning and practice under this new guru. This process continues until he gets a proper guru through whom he can reach the ultimate. But craving must continue whether he gets proper guru or not.
Once he is settled under a guru of his own choice and satisfaction he can vigorously practice the method taught by his beloved guru in search of the truth. This vigorous practice will take him further in the journey and he starts experiencing many things and enlightenment happens to him depending upon the purity that he has gained through his practice and discipline of life. This enlightenment only can lead him further so that he can also become like his guru.
Once the practitioner becomes guru or preceptor and starts teaching others on his method of enlightenment, he also continues his journey towards ultimate, knowing many new wisdom and knowledge. There wisdom naturally descends upon him depending upon his maintenance of purity and practicing positive qualities. A feeling of teacher ship or Mastership should not be in him at any time, else he stops acquiring further purity in his journey and also loses the capacity to teach others.
This is the end step of his practice where he gets detached from all the earthly attachments and connects himself with the qualities of the ultimate. The quality of Ultimate is ‘nothing’. This quality starts descending in this personality gradually to remove him from the connection of the worldly attachments and ego. This practitioner has to continue his practice without doing any practice but keeping his mind always in blankness and maintain his purity of thoughts, action etc all the time. All the positive qualities should be available in him so that when he transmits his power of wisdom and purity to his followers, they should attain the maximum benefits at the earliest. His level of thinking must be par excellence at every time; then only his followers can gain every time under his teacher ship. His journey towards the Ultimate ends automatically when the energy in him wants to get released towards the ultimate and his availability in this Universe depends upon the necessity of the time.
12.12.05-1130hrs.
here and now condition
Bring the Personality to mind when you are worried, to remove the negative qualities Like adding alum to clear water. This is to remove the impurities and give you peace.
Nature acts on Here and Now. Future happens because of present. If you are able to align with Nature, you can be like Nature. Nature is not worried about past. Nature helps who lives in here and Now condition, as in case of animals. Only man is worried about past and future; not the animals. But he cannot do anything about past or future.
Hence withdraw yourself from your activities; allow your nature to connect with Nature. Then you can live in Here and Now condition.
The you in you should be withdrawn and connect that with Nature with your mind; which means keep blank mind. Suppose tank and the ocean are a kilometer apart, connect them together. After some time tank becomes a part of the ocean; your mind is the bridge. You must have the capacity to loosen the impurities when the tank and ocean are connected, i.e., the translitting and cooperation. Then only the ocean can purify the tank and finally the tank will be a part of ocean, when the ‘I’ is lost.
Connect that omnipresent Energy with mind, i.e., blankness. Then ‘you’ will be an observer to what is going on. That energy uses your mind energy intelligently and fulfills. Follow where the body goes. You will be pushed. Energy uses you the way it wants.
You will start getting the benefits when the lessening starts. But you will not become That; because the speeds are different; when the speeds are equal then the mergence happens.
If someone exceeds the speed of That, Nature gets upset because of its loss of freedom and it behaves in non predictable way and dissolution can happen. But this is only theory. The two energies do not tally.
Nature will help you in many ways till you allow the freedom; including what is concerning with your family.
There cant be a miracle like because of a light the entire darkness vanishes. If you align with Nature, it will protect you in the way it wants. Your Nature has to be protected because it has a same qualities as the outside Nature.
Nature wants to make use of you as an instrument when you become Nature.
Align with the Nature, love the Nature. Personality is a representative of Nature. Hence love , adore, see him as your Guru. It is like loving the Nature.
Nature works in Here and Now condition.
Nature has no sense of time, it has one interest in the present. Nature will look after yourself. You cant stop it, its movement like changing calendar dates or the movement of time. Your capacity is limited.
Hence allow the Nature to function. Hence move with time in Here and Now condition. Allow the things to happen; like the running of a railway engine hitting away whatever is a hurdle. The worship came because man wanted His protection. But HE has to accept you. Instead connect yourself with That and then it will protect you and remove yourself, i.e., ‘I’ from the scene. Then mergence can happen sometime.
Training is to give purity and connect that purity. For this you have to remove everything from the mind , i.e., disconnect. The moment you think that something as yours, think that “it is not yours” . Cooperate. Then you will reach that condition one day.
Every such thought must be disconnected. Then you will live but in non-living. This is the highest level of spirituality, i.e., floating. You mind will never get agitated.
In NC when the Energy is activated, no bad thoughts will come. Especially so when the ‘I’ is negated, there is no effect of samskaras, no formation of samskaras.
Remember the present Personality, no use of the old Personalities who have contributed earlier, because of lower Energy. Like you will forget the person who built a house or the person from whom you purchased it.
The effort is to how to remove your ‘I’ from the mind. Detach from everything and connect to nothing, i.e., Personality is nothing. Surrender everything at mind level like disconnecting the ownership of house and thinking you are in a rented house. Detach from everything and attach to the Personality. It is His responsibility to look after everything. Think I am not the person with the name. Hence all the attachments to the body are not mine. My body belongs to the Master; but I have to look after it. If you are connected to body, you have to look after its possessions. Maintain the inner connection. Dont have any projections, desires or hopes..
Ego is the power of maintaining you. Lose your ego, transfer it to Him. Ego is very valuable which helps you in everything including evolution. Surrender ’I’ means surrender ego. The Personality should have no ego, otherwise such Personality who have not fully negated may start working in wrong direction in you.
MEDITATION ON BLANKNESS TO GET HIM INSIDE 13.10.05 sreenagar
What we are doing here is to meditate on god in the form of Nisarga ( sky, blankness). If the mind has to become pure we have to meditate on nisarga. We have to get nirmalam, purity because He is pure. When we meditate on nisarga we get peace in a few days, which is just a beginning. The journey is adhyatmika and must be continuous. We say He is in everything. We have to find Him inside us so that nothing in the world will trouble us. When He expands in me, nothing will trouble us. We are trying only for that. If He has to come inside us we have to be at peace. Nisarga is all the creation. It is the Tatwa which is present everywhere and when it comes in us and expands, it will guide us.
It is only about 3-4 months since we started and we are already seeing the benefit in the practitioners. He comes inside only when we have the craving to get Him. We have to cooperate for that by meditating regularly. You must have patience to get Him within 90 days. It is not enough if you attend only Satsanghs. If you do not practice at home the condition will be lost. Hence you have to practice as much as you can at home.
