Prayerful Silence

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Prayerful Silence

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Dada Vaswani

We must practice silence every day. I believe this is the one great urgent need of humanity today. We live in a noisome world, all around us are noises. Even as there are particles of dust, they come and cling to our clothes and we wash them with soap and water, even so there are particles of noise. They come and cling to our hearts, to our minds, to our souls. We need to wash them in the waters of silence. Every day preferably at the same time, preferably at the same place, let us come and sit in silence. I often refer to it as our daily appointment with God. We keep a number of appointments every day; but we miss out this most important of all appointments, our daily appointment with God, and as God is not a far off shadowy being dwelling on a distant star, God is closer to me than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. I must have my daily appointment with God, I must practice this silence; sitting in silence I can pray, I can meditate, I can repeat the name Divine, I can engage myself in a loving and intimate conversation with God, I can do my spiritual thinking. But this daily practice of silence is very, very necessary.

 

Dada Vaswani shares a special honour with Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa as one of the handful of recipients of the prestigious U Thank International Peace Award.