Truth and Silence

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Truth and Silence

 

The word muni is common to both Hindu and Buddhist traditions, but its connotation is not the same to them. The Hindu tradition takes the word to mean one who has conquered his mind and has, in consequence, attained Self-Knowledge and realized Truth. To a Buddhist the word however means one who is “silent”, or ‘Mute’ Why is the silent? He is silent because it is part of his asceticism. Why should he talk? What is there to talk about? And to whom would he talk? Is it not waste of time and energy talking to others? Buddha is often referred to as ‘Shakya Muni’ the mute one of the Shakya clan. This was because. Buddha often gave evasive replies if people asked him about God or the Self. to this day people do not know exactly what Buddha’s stand was on God or the Self  or the Ultimate Reality , Some people say ‘silence had to be his answer. For what he had to say was beyond thought and speech.

           
Buddha did not like to see people arguing about metaphysics. He thought it was waste of time. But the irony is that just because of or in spite of this attitude towards philosophy , much philosophy has grown and is still growing centering round Buddha. Crucial to Buddha’s teachings is nirvana, which he describes as the goal of life. But what is nirvana? The debate about its meaning Is  still going on  . One school of thought explains nirvana as going out, extinction, or dissolution . the meaning is negative Another school holds that nirvana has an affirmative ménage it means infinite bliss. Whether it is extinction or infinite bliss. . it hardly means anything to an ordinary person. Buddha’s silence is understandable under the circumstances.

 

You are complete and perfect in every way

By Swami Krishnananda

 

Here we are, the products, as it were, of this great creative activity of the immeasurable completeness and perfection of the Almighty, the Supreme Being. God is utter perfection, and everything that emanates from Him as His creation has also to be a perfection. An imperfect product does not come out of a perfect cause. Thus, the great, most venerable, infinite Eternal Being, to describe Whom as a perfection would be to say very little, has willed this universe, which also is a perfection. From poorn has come poorn. This poorn, which is the universe, has come from Poorn, the Supreme Being, and we are all a part of this Poorn, the universe. Therefore, we also are representations of that Poorn only, not fragments or shattered personalities.

 

All of us here, and everyone who is in any part of the world or in any other world, all these beings we call living or non-living, moving or non-moving, animate or inanimate, call them by any designation, are also perfections, poorn. Only poorn emanates from poorn, and therefore every one of you is also a poorn … None of us is a fragment. This is very important for us to remember. We are not incomplete in any way.

 

 

Many of us have distracted notions of our own selves – poor, illiterate ideas of our being nothings, nobodies, unfulfilled, incomplete and unfortunate. Nothing of the kind is the case with anyone or with anything because a wretched incomplete wreck cannot be manifest from a perfect being. And if you believe you have come from that One Being, you are not that which you imagine yourselves to be under a false notion of yourself in your artificial adjustments and accommodations with a phenomenon we call human society which, to repeat once again, is also, in its essentiality, a symbol of perfection itself.

 

The whole universe is a radiant manifestation of the Almighty’s perfection. Glory is the name of this world. ‘Yasya nama mahad yasah’, says the Svetasvatara Upanishad. The glory of God is also the glory of this world; it is also the glory of every one of us, every one of you. Each one, even in the littlest of the forms of manifestation, is a completion in itself. Even an atom is a complete manifestation, and is not a little part of something. You do not belong to anyone, and nothing belongs to you. The idea of something belonging to something else is the idea of subservience and fragmentation of personality. A thing that is complete cannot belong to something else, and if everything is complete, nothing can belong to anything. Neither can you belong to anything, nor can anything belong to you, because all these little manifestations of completion, perfection, poornta, belong to the eternal perfection which is the Supreme Being.

 

These ideas, these thoughts, these contemplations even for a few moments will charge your personality with such strength, energy, joy and satisfaction that you may not wish to even open your mouth. You will feel that everything is well.

 

Om purnam adah, purnam idam, purnat purnam udacyate;

purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavasisyate.

 (Courtesy: The Divine Life Trust Society)

 

IF HE EXIST

 I drive joy there was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting 7 precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

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