[SOUL SPEAK]
The Power ofMauna
Interpreting Peace and Silence....
N
ormally, when someone asks
me to attend a meeting, my
first intellectual response is
the timing, since I do late nights and
early morning meetings are always an
issue for me. Similarly, when someone
asks me to meditate, I first search for
silence. To cook, we got to be in the
kitchen. Similarly, to meditate, we got to
be in silence.
Silence is a very simple word and a very
simple state. We believe, we observe
silence many times during a day, even in
this noisy age. But my interpretation of
silence is a bit different.
Normally, silence is interpreted as
absence of noise. When there is no one
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shouting in the neighborhood, when we
are not on the streets, when the
television set is switched off and the cell
phone isn’t ringing, when a kid is not
crying, we term the environment silent
and peaceful. Peace has always been
associated with silence. They say where
there is silence, there is peace. Many
philosophers have said that only in
silence can one be at peace. But the
question is – do we interpret silence
correctly?
I remember our school was famous for its
pin-drop silence which means that even
if you drop a pin in the building, its echo
could be heard. That’s because there is no
crowd of sounds from multiple sources.
Even in normal life, sometimes at home,
sometimes at the park early dawn, we
come across such silence. But the
question is – does silence refer to the
absence of noise or high decibel sound?
My take is a NO. Because I believe, silence
does not simply mean the lack of noise,
high decibel sound or even any kind of
sound that we refer to as SOUND.
Because I believe, that silence means the
absence of waves created by the thoughts
of our mind. Mind carries the energy of
the soul and with that energy; it creates
thoughts which are again made of
energy. This energy is further converted
into actions which again are energy, but
this energy affects mass – the mass of our
body as well as foreign masses. All energy
has music. Yoga practitioners have