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Sadhguru: Speech is of the society, words are of the mind, sounds are of
nature, the soundless is of the beyond. Thus, if one gets identified with
ones own speech, he will belong to the society. If he gets identified with
his words, he will belong to the mind. If he gets identified with the
sounds, he will belong to nature. If one dissolves in the soundless
silence, to him alone the realms of the beyond will yield.
Sadhguru
Todays Mystic Quote
Not being a social being does not mean you are antisocial. Being a social
being simply means you are not a being, you are a certain kind of noise.
If you belong to a youth society, you will make one kind of noise. If you
belong to a corporate society you make another kind of noise. If you
belong to a religious society you make another kind of noise. If you do
not make the appropriate noises, you will not belong to that society. If we
just take away speech from the world, human beings will no longer be
social beings, because the need for speech came only when people got
together, and people got together most of the time only because they
have a need to speak. You know, there are gossip societies everywhere.
That is the only universal society! Wherever you go, whether it is a
corporate crowd or a socialite crowd or a religious crowd or even a
spiritual crowd, gossip society always exists. Gossip is a compulsive need
to speak it does not matter whether you know something or not, you
have to speak.
Conversation, speech and social systems formed only because the human
mind could invent a word. A word is not a reality. Neither is the mind.
Sound is a reality. There are all kinds of sounds in nature. But a word is
not a reality. In India, because we have over 1300 languages and dialects
in close proximity, it happens quite often that one word in one language
means some sacred object, but in another language it means a filthy
thing. A word is a made-up thing. A sound is not a made-up thing. Sound
is a certain reality. Sound can be a vehicle to penetrate the nature of
nature itself, but words do not get you anywhere because they are just
made up in your mind.
If you ride the words, you will be full of bull. If you ride the sounds, you
could explore different aspects of nature. Being filled with forms is not
everything, but it is one step closer than being lost in words. If you learn
ten different languages and use all ten with the same ease, you will see,
you will have no words in your mind, you will have only forms because
now if I have to say tree, I have ten words for the tree. Sanskrit language
did this for every form they created at least a dozen different words so
that in your mind the word will not stick, only the form will stick. When
you have to speak, you have to create a form and then come out with an
appropriate word depending upon the situation. These were devices that
were created so that step-by-step, as you live, the very process of life
will slowly take you towards that soundlessness, towards the source of
creation and liberation. Everything was engineered that way.
The existence that one is able to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch
through the five senses is essentially a product of reverberations, a play
of sound or nada. The body and mind of a human being are also
reverberations. But body and mind are not an end in themselves they
are just the outer peel of a possibility. Most people do not go beyond the
peel; they sit on the threshold of the doorway their whole lives. But the
purpose of a doorway is to enter. To experience that which is beyond this
doorway, the practice of silence is referred to as maun.
The English word silence doesnt really say much. In the Sanskrit
language there are many words for silence. Maun and nishabdh are
two significant ones. Maun means silence as we generally know it
you dont speak; it is an attempt to create nishabdh. Nishabdh means
soundlessness or beyond sound. That which is beyond sound is that
which is beyond the play of forms and the five elements. That which is
beyond sound is the final passage to that which is the very source of
creation.
Nishabdh, nirvan, nirvikalp, all of these mean the same in one sense.
Nishabdh means soundlessness, nirvan means formlessness, nirvikalp
means that which is beyond kalpa or creation, that which is neither
sound nor form.
Crystal Clear
Gorakhnath is the kind, if you tell him to do a mantra ten times, he will
do it 10,000 times. He is always on the go. Whatever you tell him, he will
do it with great fervor, which is a great quality, but now a time had come
for him to move into another space. So Matsyendranath was conveying a
message: You have done all the running around and intense activity
very well, but now a time has come. Just wait. It will become crystal
clear.
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