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How Silence Helps Man

          Silence is the symbol of modesty, honesty, discipline and development. The word ‘Silence’ can be defined as ‘Simple’, ‘Impartial’, ‘Logical’, ‘Equal’, ‘Neutral’, ‘Celestial’ and ‘Emotional’. Hence, a person having the above qualities can maintain silence and must be honest and disciplined.

Here one should note that, a person having the above qualities could control his anger, because a person with these qualities can control his desire and thereby, he makes himself discipline. Great people say that, when one suppresses his desire, anger comes in human. Hence, a man should be free from Desire in order to control anger, because if there is no desire, there is no question of its suppression. Hence, there is no question of anger as well. Thus, silence helps one to be calm and makes one free from desire.

        Again, silence helps man to control his expectation too. Because, a person with silence is impartial to all kinds of expectations in life. He is above expectations because; he knows expectation is like the endless sky and the endless sea. Great people say -

Anth nahin hai tin cheez ka

Sagar, aakash aur aasha,

Kyun bhai bhatakta un ke lie tu

We tujhe kavi nahin dete disha !!

       A person of silence loves everyone irrespective of cast, religion and gender but his love is quite logical, because love without logic pollutes the relation. If one applies this to a child, it spoils the child. Hence, Jeevan Tatwa says-

Seema ke andar jo prem hota

us se badbu kavi na aata,

bin tark ke prem jo karta

woh prem jeevan ko samsaan banata !!

A person of silence is equal to everybody. We consider him a real ‘Pundit’ or a learned man on this earth.  The Geeta says-

Vidyavinayasampanne brahmano gavi hastini ;

shuni chaiva shwapake cha punditaha samadarshinah …

              It means, he treats equally to both man & animal, Brahmin & Kshatriya, vaishya & Sudra. Cow, elephant, dog all are equal to him. In every physical existence, he sees a sacred soul. It means he establishes social justice to all living being.

Not only that, a person of silence is neutral to everybody. He is above the worldly affairs. He is above support and frustration. He has enormous interest or ‘Shraddha’ in attaining knowledge, because he knows that, neutrality can only create interest for everything. Nothing is good and nothing is bad in this universe. Good and bad are two relative terms only. They are changeable to the need of the time and exigency. 

Hence, The Geeta says-

Shraddhavahllavate gyanam tatparah sanyatendriyah ;

gyanam labdhvwa param shantimachirenadhigachhati…

          Hence, this kind of person can only control his five organs or ‘Panchandriya’. As a result, his sixth sense opens to receive knowledge from the natural surrounding around him, because nature is the real Guru or teacher on this earth. Everything originates from nature and decays in nature too.

       Again, a person of silence is celestial in nature too. He himself is heaven. Hence, he becomes fearless to all adverse situations in life. With his celestial touch, adversity vanishes from his life. According to him, nothing is adverse on this earth. It is only a state of mind. It depends on how a person deals with a particular situation of life. If one deals a situation with spiritual value, then it becomes heaven. However, if dealt with negative spirit, it becomes hell.

Hence, Jeevan Tatwa  says-

Ichha ki koi roop nahin hai,

 ye paani jesa hota,

us ke suroop kuroop aadi ,

 paribesh se aata…

Again, a person of silence has emotional attachment to all his surroundings. He has a belonging for his fellow-friends. His emotional level becomes higher than anything does while establishing relation with someone. His emotion never permits him to show rude behavior to others. His emotion inspires him to progress spiritually; consequently, he never commits crime; welfare works become his index or identity. His emotion takes him to such a place where he can have Godly element. He himself becomes a feeling. His calmness takes him to the kingdom of God.

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Why does one need sadhana

The very word “sadhana” or perseverance has come from the word ‘’ sadha or karma” (action). One needs devotion in action to get success. When one’s degree of devotion increases, his success comes to him quickly. One can fulfil his ambition only by devotion to action. One can achieve both material and spiritual success through “sadhana”. The first one makes one materially rich and the second one makes one spiritually rich. However, in both the cases, one can cultivate human qualities. One’s divine power becomes more sharpened by sadhana; because, it is the only root to get peace of mind. One can major his existing ability through this and can grow it by sadhana too. One can discover and cultivate eternal peace in him and reform himself. “sadhana” makes one conscious about self and about the universe and can connect one to every soul honestly.

Once, a man becomes conscious, he can open his inner eyes, can see his insight, can assess himself from a very close angle and can purify his mind. One can make “upasana” through his sadhana. Upasana makes one strong, determined and helps for achieving his goal quickly, but steadly. Sadhana and upasana are almost identical in nature.

Sadhana is of three kinds. Sadhana by action, sadhana by upasana and sadhana by gyana. That means one can make sadhana through “karma margo”, “bhakti margo’’ and ‘’gyana margo’’.  Karma margo is based on physical labour, bhakti margo is based on devotion and gyana margo is based on cultivation of knowledge. One should remember that through karma margo, one can purify his body externally and through bhakti margo, one can purify his mind. However, when they combined, one becomes stable and can concentrate in doing something constructive. On the other hand, through gyana margo, one can realize the unseen divine force logically and can satisfy himself about the existence of a real force that causes everything in this universe; because accordind to ‘Nyaya Prabesha’ of ‘Dinanga Charya’, cause follows the effect and there is an effect in a cause. Hence, both are complementary to each other.  We call it “karana” and “karjya”. Hence, above all, we can conclude, through these above three kinds of sadhana, one can be a “Sthitaprangya”, and can treat every situation of life equally. Therefore, he is only the “sadhaka” or a real gyani.

The Geeta says-

“ Vidyavinayesampanne  brahmano  gavi hastini,

  Shuni  chaiva shwapake  cha punditah samadarshinah” .

Now let us discuss the quality of a sadhaka. Sadhana and sadhaka are complementary to each other because both of them rise together and fall together. A sadhaka always focuses on his ambition only. He realizes that, without a definite ambition, life becomes mechanical and he becomes a machine without feelings and sensation and cannot evaluate his achievements even. He cannot coordinate his mind (mana), intellect (budhi) and body (sarira). He cannot sharpen his judgement capacity even. Hence, a sadhaka must focus on three keys of success. Regularity, sincerity, and patience. Because, by these three keys he can open his chamber of discipline for sadhana. Thus, he can go away from shadow of spirituality and can cultivate true spiritualism by two basic principles of sadhana; i.e service and contribution to others without self. Even if a sadhaka dies during his sadhana, he can reassume his service where he had left it in his previous birth.

Again, a sadhka never becomes impatient and unstable even in adversity. Adversity is a challenge for him that generates additional courage and energy to fight with his obstacles. It strengthens his will power and finally brings success, if not in the present birth, the next. Hence, we can say, adversity means, an “Additional distinguished valuable energy to reproduce super initiation to treat the young”.

A sadhaka can treat four conditions of life equally. That is ‘jagrata’ (stage of awakening), ‘swapna’ (dream), ‘susupti’ (stage of sleeping) and ‘dhyana’ (concentration). He can combine them too. Then he can realize ‘’Oam”. By combining them together, he can make ‘pranaba’, and ‘upasana’, which we call ‘shabdabrahma’ (a unique tune of the universe) that made possible the entire creation. A sadhaka believes in his ‘karma’ only and he considers ‘karmaphala’ as the ‘prasada’ or ‘bhoga’ of his sadhana. Because, sadhana is his ‘God’.

Nothing is bad for him and good for him. Good and bad are just a mind-set or experience that can reform him internally. It expands him too, enhances divinity in him, makes him determined to go ahead, builds his confidence, strengthens his love and makes him pure and peace loving. Ultimately, he can realize happiness, pleasure and satisfaction that follows one another perpetually. Ambition for him is a cause of benevolence and relation for him is selfless. 

             

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 Why old parents are important?

There is a popular saying that “old is gold”. It means we must have a sense of respect towards the old generation. In the name of generation gap, we must not ignore old people; neither have we made them ill treatment, because experience makes them wiser than the present generation. Experience is more important than education while taking any critical decision. Here, experience means personal expose for essential reformation that can initiate and energize noble and civic effort. To be clearer experience teaches many things practically. Education is theory-based; but experience is practical-oriented. For e.g. an experienced mason can build a better house, but an engineer newly enter into the field of construction with all his degrees cannot build it. There are several e.g. in history available to us in this regard.

 Experience can give right direction than education because experience is more feeling oriented while education is more book oriented. Hence, a child can receive knowledge more effectively and more easily from a grandmother than a mother, because a mother cannot influence a child in comparison to the grandmother. A grandmother influences a child through different stories with patience, which a mother cannot do. A grandmother can interact with the child from a very close angle, which a mother cannot do on priority basis because a mother has many responsibilities to deliver. Moreover, a grandmother never despairs a child by making false promises, which a mother very often does due to external work pressure. A child is keener about moral stories than strict administration of a mother. A child never tells a lie at least to his grandmother because a grandmother can win the confidence of the child more rapidly than a mother can. The emotional bonding between a child and its grandmother is very strong in many cases, but a mother cannot win the emotion of a child effectively.          

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 How can one empower himself

While empowering himself one should know self-motivation that protects one against all essential obscurity and thus enhances his will power, enriches him with different reformation. Hence, a self-empowered person can inspire himself, can understand himself and can infuse new ideas in him while doing something for a greater cause. Because empowerment is a symbol of greatness, where one feels secure against every odds of his life and thus can fight with every situation by having six sacred qualities like (prabhutwa) ownership, (parakrama) strength, (yasha) fame, (shree) wealth, (gyana) knowledge, (vairagya) renunciation.

With these above supreme qualities, he can cultivate divinity in him, which ultimately urges him to walk on a righteous path, that needs neither approval nor any prove; because he never does any wrong due to his strong intuition power.

While empowering himself, one should go for logic, because only through logical approach he can realize his mistakes and can reform himself. Logic can filter one’s intellect, which no teacher can do. Self-teaching helps to examine different issues carefully, which we call perseverance (sadhana) that comes out of one’s (shradha) interest in doing something. Hence, a self-empowered man must have shradha or interest to be different from others and can guide the humanity with his quality of self- control (atma niyantrana). So, the Geeta says –

श्रद्धावाःल्ल्भते ग्यानं तत्परः सन्यातेंद्रियः ;

ग्यानं  लब्धवा परां शान्ति मचिरेण। अधिगछति । ।    

                                                                                 

Again one can empower himself by proper self-evaluation that inspires one for progress. It is no doubt a human instinct, but one should not be craze for it; because it initiates criminal attitude in man. It sometimes causes depression in man; as a result, man commits suicide or kills his co-inhabitants. He never pays attention for others happiness and hates others for no reason. Hence, self-evaluation does not mean showing derogative attitude or behaviour to his fellow beings; because one cannot established his ability by evaluating others or by reducing others importance. Hence, there is a saying, “if ability cannot be justified properly, it invites unnecessary bitterness in relation”. Therefore, we can say, love, sincerity, proper planning, experience, confidence etc. are some of the basic features that have enormous influence on self-evaluation.

One should remember that, self-empowerment and self-evaluation must be free from flattering; because flattering symbolizes dark side of life. Again, it is like a hungry dog too. It just sucks blood from one’s vain. Hence, while evaluating self, one’s intellect must not be miss-utilized; because miss-utilization of intellect never brings reputation, rather it pollutes the system of evaluation and consequently it imbalances “energy flow” in man. It disorders and disorganizes thought process too. Therefore, we can conclude, self-empowerment leads to self-evaluation and it must have a definite aim, because without a particular aim, one cannot give justice to either self-empowerment or self-evaluation. So we can say:

Agar maksad tujhme na hota,

Pratistha tujhko kabhi na milta.

                              

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 How can one differentiate between papa and punya

One can differentiate between papa and punya with the help of the truth. Here the truth can be defined as “total reformation of ultimate thought by honesty”. That means one must reform his ultimate thought totally by adopting honest principles in life. Because honesty makes life discipline and inspires to receive good qualities for the benefit of the human race. Once a man realizes the good qualities, he never commits anything wrong. Sense of fear generates in him while doing something wrong, which we call “papa”. On the other hand, one urges to do right things by adopting honest principles. In other words, internal purification is needed to differentiate between right and wrong action. One can clean his body by water, but cannot purify it. Because, purification is a higher concept than cleanness. Hence, for the purification of body and mind one needs to purify his thought process that would help him for differentiating between good and bad.

By speaking good words to others, one can purify himself internally. Because, one who realizes the truth, can only speak good words to others and can differentiate between right and wrong. According to Vyasadeva,  punya means any action that is benevolent to others; that means someone may hard in his action externally, but his intention must be good. It again says an honest man cannot do anything harmful for the human race. His intuition never allows him to do so. Hence, it is said-

 vivek ki jhadu hai jiske paas,

 Woh adami sada hota udasa .