06 January 2011

87. Keep the Mind Silent and You shall Discover

Words create words, reality is silent.

The sound of the word and the mental ripples it causes are experienced. There is no other reality behind it.

Words do not convey facts, they signal them. Once you are beyond the person, you need no words.

Words and questions come from the mind and hold you there. To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet.

Peace and silence, silence and peace—this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

Beyond all, and pervading all, is the heart of being which beats steadily—manifested-unmanifested; manifested-unmanifested (saguna-nirguna).

You are responsible only for what you can change. All you can change is only your attitude. There lies your responsibility.

All depends on you. It is by your consent that the world exists. Withdraw your belief in its reality and it will dissolve like a dream.

Time can bring down mountains; much more you, who are the timeless source of time. For without memory and expectation there can be no time.

Do understand that you cannot ask a valid question about yourself, because you do not know whom you are asking about.

In the question ‘Who am I?’ the ‘I’ is not known and the question can be worded as: “I do not know what I mean by ‘I’”

You need not know ‘why’ and ‘how’, there is no end to questions. Abandon all desires, keep your mind silent and you shall discover.

You need not know to be, but you must be to know.

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