The existence that one is able to experience – see, hear, smell, taste, and touch – through the five senses is essentially a product of reverberations, a play of nada or sound. The body and mind of an individual are also reverberations. But they are not ends in themselves – they are just the outer peel of a possibility. Most people do not go beyond the peel; they sit on the threshold their whole lives. But the purpose of a doorway is to enter. To experience that which is beyond this doorway, the practice of silence, is referred to as ‘maun’.
The English word ‘silence’ doesn’t really say much. In Sanskrit there are many words for silence, the most significant being ‘maun’ and ‘nishabd’. Maun means you don’t speak; it is an attempt to create nishabd meaning “that which is not sound,” beyond body, mind and all creation. Beyond sound does not mean absence of sound, but transcending sound.
Existence is reverberation of energy. All vibrations in our experience translate into sound. Every form has a corresponding sound. This complex amalgamation of sounds is what we experience as creation. The basis of all sound is nishabd. Maun is an attempt to transit from being a piece of creation to the source of creation. This attribute-less, dimension-less, boundless state of existence and experience is the aspiration of yoga: union. Nishabd suggests nothingness that has negative connotation. You would probably understand it better if you put a hyphen between no and thing; no-thing.
Sound is of surface; silence is of the core that is total absence of sound; absence of reverberation, life, death, creation; absence of creation in one’s experience leads to enormous presence of the source of creation. So, a space which is beyond creation, a dimension which is beyond life and death, is referred to as silence or nishabd. You cannot do this; you can only become this.
There is a difference between practicing silence and becoming silence. If you are practicing something, you are not that. Consciously aspiring for silence, there is a possibility of becoming silence.
By: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on Feb 08, 2013
Contributed by Satinder Balla
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