Guest guest Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 SILENCE Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. That will help you in many ways. It will develop Prema, for most misunderstandings and factions arise out of carelessly spoken words. When the foot slips, the wound can be healed; but when the tongue slips, the wound it causes in the heart of another will fester for life. The tongue is liable to four big errors: uttering falsehood, scandalizing, finding fault with others, and excessive speech. All these have to be avoided if there is to be Shanthi for the individual as well as for society. (Sathya Sai Baba, SSS. Vol.1 p. 62) Dakshinamurthy taught His disciples by His silence. Yes, what He did was to make the disciples rely on their own intelligence. Do not demean your talents, when you dive deep into yourselves, you can discover the source of all strength. (Sathya Sai Baba, SSS. Vol. 4 p. 155) Be silent yourself, that will induce silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting, talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation, wherever you happen to be. (Sathya Sai Baba, SSS. Vol. 5 p. 245) Spend a few minutes every morning and evening in the silence of your own shrine or home; spend them with the highest of all the powers that you know of. Be in His elevating and inspiring company; worship Him mentally; offer unto Him all the work you do; you will come out of the silence nobler and more heroic than when you went in. (Sathya Sai Baba, SSS. Vol. 3 p. 122) Be silent yourself; that will induce silence in others. Do not fall into the habit of shouting, talking long and loud. Reduce contacts to the minimum. Carry with you an atmosphere of quiet contemplation, wherever you happen to be. There are some who live in a perpetual hullabaloo, in a tornado of noise. Whether they are in an exhibition or a fair or in a hotel, or a temple or the Prashanthi Nilayam, they wag their tongues and will not stop. These will not proceed on the Godward road. (Sathya Sai Baba, SSS. Vol. 5 p. 245) Do not pretend or patronize. If you simply say: "Do not talk loud" or give some blank direction, you are patronizing and treating people with disdain. They deserve to be told why. Tell them that silence is the very first rung of the ladder of Sadhana; that it is the hallmark of Prashanthi Nilayam; that they must learn to make every place where they are a Prashanthi Nilayam; that loud talk disturbs those who practice Namasmarana or Dhyanam or Japam; that noise breeds further noise. This is a workshop, where damaged minds and hearts come for repair or overhaul. (Sathya Sai Baba, SSS. Vol. 4 p. 257) The less you talk, the more will become your mental power. With the increase in your mental capacity, there will be increase in your power of discrimination too. Consequently, you will give up "individual discrimination". Because of this, you will begin to consider the good of the world at large rather than your own individual welfare. You must cultivate such broad feelings from this young age itself. (Sathya Sai Baba, Divine Discourse. Brindavan, 24 May, 1992) I insist on silence. Talk less, talk low when you must talk. Do not thrust your sorrows, your needs, your problems into the ears of those who have come here with their own bundle of such things. They are not interested in adding to their troubles. I am here to listen to you, to console you. Do not by loudness of voice disturb those who are meditating or reading or writing the Name of God. (Sathya Sai Baba, SSS. Vol. 3 p. 9) Each one eats to assuage his own hunger; so too, each one must discover the best way to appease his own spiritual hunger. Do not be led away by the scorn of others, or by the recommendations of others. Contact your own reality in the silence that you create by quieting the senses and controlling the mind. There is a voice that you can hear in that silence. The true witness of your having listened to that voice is your behavior. The tree is held and fed by the roots that go into the silent earth; so also, if the roots go deep into the silence of your inner consciousness, your spiritual blossoming is assured. (Sathya Sai Baba, SSS. Vol. 4 p. 366) Download prohibited? No problem! CHAT from any browser, without download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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