true silence - adams

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
True Silence

There are certain principles we should always remember, if we wish to be happy all the time. The first one is, the highest teaching in the world is silence, to be still. There is no higher teaching than this. Silence is Brahman. Silence is grace. Silence is absolute reality. I'm speaking of real silence, not just keeping quiet for a while. Real silence is when you go deep within and you become totally oblivious to your surroundings.

There is no disturbance, even though things may still be going on all around you. The telephone may ring, people may knock on your door, the dog may bark, yet if you go deep within, you'll be silent. True silence has absolutely nothing to do with the world. True silence is omnipresence, is all-pervading. Your real nature is silence. Always remember, it is different than just keeping still. Anyone can keep still for a while, maybe a couple of seconds, before the mind starts attacking you. But true silence is when you go deeper, where you forget about your body, you forget about your affairs, your mind, your world, and you enter that atmosphere where there is bliss-consciousness.

True silence is the nature of creation. The planets turn on their axis, the galaxies spin through space, they hurl through space, galaxies, billions of galaxies. Everything is in a state of flux. Everything moves. Yet, it's all very silent. You do not hear a thing. If you get up at four o'clock in the morning and go outside and look, what do you hear? You hear silence, deep silence, total silence, beautiful silence.

It is not hard to get into that type of silence. You simply begin to sit still and become oblivious to everything. It will happen by itself. You will go deeper, and deeper, and deeper, and deeper, until you're no longer aware of your body or your surroundings. The true silence can be kept up at all times. You do not have to sit to go into the silence any more. In the beginning stages you do, for you're learning how to keep silent. But as time goes by, you can be shopping in the market place, you can be working in the factory, you can be washing dishes, you can be doing all kinds of things, and you will be in the silence.

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