Meditation Through

Silence
 Maun Sadhana:

Exploring Silence and Experiencing

Soundlessness

Dr. Gautam Chatterjee

Unpublished Manuscript
 Dedication

Param Guru RAM

Swami Satyanandji Maharaj

Pujya Premji Maharaj

Eshwar Maharishi Dr. Vishwamitterji Maharaj

All Sadhaks of Param Guru

&

My Parents

Gauri Chatterjee

Jyotirmay Chatterjee
 Content
Page

1. Maun – A Perception 1
2. Enigma called Silence 2
3. Echoes of Silence 3
4. Listening to the Silence 4
5. Non Utterance is Symbolic Maun 5
6. Mind – The Restless Ocean of Silence 6
7. Maun Ensures “Empty Mind” State 7
8. Fathoming Silence and Sound Within 8
9. Negotiating Through Silence 9
10. Even Visual Has a Sound 10
11. Darkness & Light: Silence and Sound 11
12. Silencing the Sound of Desire 12
13. Dousing the Flame of Cravings 13
through Silence
14. The Sound of the Doubt 14
15. Restraint Allows Us to Score with Silence 15
16. Duties are Melodious Sound 16
17. Relationship and Maun 17
18. Anger and Violence Unseat Silence 18
19. Rough Sounds of Jealousy and Envy 19
20. Melody of Love is Silence 20
21. Noise of Depression and Deprivation 21
22. Senses are Sound of Detractor 22
23. Hearing by the Innerself 23
24. Smelling Silence of Lotus 24
25. Maun Sadhana – Some Whispers 25
 Maun – A Perception

Swamiji Satyanandji Maharaj had prescribed that

MAUN BE THE LONGEST Baithak in Sadhana Satsang for
RAM NAAM SADHAK. One wonders what’s in silence or
Maun and conclude mostly with peripheral understanding that
not talking or non-utterance is Maun. But in reality Maun is
like an ocean which can be fathomed with thousands of birth
and rebirths. Maun is an enigma like the cosmic mysticism.
Maun can’t be defined as we fail to explain the taste of Milk.
Silencing is a manifestive process where one moves from
utterance to non-utterance; from sound of silence to the
frightening silence; from the darkness to light, then
enlightenment and finally experiencing lightlessness where
light flashes no more and where darkness ceases to exist and
nothing shines but resonance of silence. Beyond Maun there is
a space where there is no sound or silence; there sound sounds
no more and silence reaches a state where the sound of silence
echoes no more.

O’ my Ram
Give me Silence
and make me hear the
sound of silence.
O’ My Ram
show me the light
that dawns twilight
of Silence and Sound.
Hey Ram
let me listen
to the echoes of silence
and silent
that sounds
yet the soundlessness
prevails
upon all that sounds.

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 Enigma Called Silence

The wind blows through woods that creates the

whistling sound and passes through the green till it reaches the
depth of the forest where it crashes to unveil the eternal
silence. When the nature is sublimely calm, and no wind
blows then one hears even a fall of a straw from the nest or
drop of dew on the petal. Within silence of darkness where
one earthen diya burns, one hears the flicker that burns with
hours of contemplation. In the evening, when suddenly
electricity fails then silence of darkness befalls and one
realizes the bulb or a tube light which was illuminating was
not silent rather too noisy. But this is realized when light goes
off and silence, sounds through darkness, yet that remains still
noisy until we reach towards deeper night where sound of
silence echoes as silent is never complete and even the
stillness is not without a sound. This penning does sound as
one hears the flow of nib rubbing its face on the paper. Such is
the enigma of silence that still holds sound quite aloud no
matter audible or inaudible to our human ears or not.

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 Echoes of Silence

Sound echoes but when we say Silence has the

same characteristics then one would surely contradict
and question our statement! In a valley when we say
aloud “RAUUM” it gets echoed after it comes back
touching the mountain of silence. But if we think
differently then we can conclude variedly and a new
concept can dawn. Think I have uttered in high pitch
the word “Ram” that went and touched the mountain
and came back to me as echo. But from the perspective
of the mountain if we think, then we would realize that
the sound of the “Ram” came to the mountain and the
echo was sent back to me, as I created the first sound.
But it is important to understand when echo crashes to
the space from the “origin” of the sound creates the echo
of silence that again travels back to the mountain where
vibration of sound gets assimilated into the
fragmentation of silence which returns as echo of
silence. It means what I heard was echo - but after a
while the mountain where the sound reflected heard the
echo of silence as Raum at inaudible level which
transcends that space. Maun has to get to this state of
silence where resonance may not sound but vibration
prevails.

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 Listening to the Silence

Sound is heard but can silence be eared? In Sadhana

one has to move beyond the givens of resonance. And the
givens are re-sounding sounds of all around reaching the
proportion of chaotic noise when clustered together. These
noises are sound of the nature, sound of living life forces and
our enormous utterances apart from all kind of automotive
man-made sound. These are the givens and Sadhak has to take
his/her mind away from this “Noise Web” and disentangle
them in various compartments to hear the music of silence.

Think you are amidst nature away from habitation.

There you hear sound of nature, be it blowing of wind or
gushing flow of a rivulet or the trembling leaves of tree and
fluttering sound of birds and their humming of resonance.
These sounds are soothing for us and we find the music in the
air. But once being there for quite sometime we also hear all
those trees, mounds and mountains do talk through silence as
well. Here mind hears the sound of silence and if one
concentrates further one can even see as if the sound has
movement so is the silence that moves sways with certain
amount of heaviness and our body feels the vibrations of those
moving and at times over powering silence. Listening to this
silence becomes easier when we do Sadhana inwardly or being
in the state of antarmukhi yatra (a journey of internalization).
In sadhana the journey from sound to silence is a holy retreat
where the only sacred accomplice is nothing but talking
silence that stokes our mind inward.

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 Non-Utterance is Symbolic Maun

During Sadhana Satsang a bell rings and all

Sadhaks get into non-utterance mode. None speaks in
the Maun session. The outer sound of the bell allows
sudden drop of silence till again the bell rings to allow
all to speak.

But is the Maun limited to non-utterance only?

Perhaps not! It only gives realization of experiencing
outer or verbal silence. But in the Maun when one
moves physically that also create sound pattern. The
thinking becomes quite aloud inside. People watch each
other that also have a visual sound. Swa-Adhyay is
preferred during the Maun so that mind should be
creatively weaved to a context because when we don’t
utter then the mind roars like an ocean and splashes at
different shores of our mind and thought contours.
Thoughts within thoughts, their analysis and
interpretative perspective of realization crowd our mind.
The heart or Mann runs like wild horse and
fragmentation of mind do happen. All these sounds are
also to be tackled even when we practice Maun
Sadhana. The physical sphere of sound; the visual
sound; the sound of thought; attitude and behavior; the
sound of the light around and finally handling the
ambiance sound are also part of exploring silence which
we will touch upon with psycho-physical perspective
now onward.

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 Mind – the Restless Ocean of Silence

Do you mind what you are thinking now? When we

consciously think, then we find different thought processes are
going on in gushing speed simultaneously. Those are religious
thoughts, concepts and contents of the socio-religious society;
personal perceptions; analysis and interpretation; personal
matters and very personal thoughts; then we find micro to
macro social thoughts and issues popping up one after another
and even simultaneously; then these are thoughts within
contexts and outside. All these multi processing at thought
levels represent a wide range of emotive frequencies
constantly creating sounds in silence. These are the state of
constant restlessness which haunts and drive human beings
from one wish to the other that at times become cravings and
lusts. These wishes even in their slightest appearance in the
mind create sound and when get intensified it are noise that
heavily resounds in the mind and resultant perplexity befalls
on us. Maun Sadhana is upto knowing the art of reducing the
chaotic noise and focusing our thought contemplation to
Param Guru. This process needs snubbing the ill directed
wishes within that pop up haphazardly and reduce us as a
bundle of being with full of animal instincts and desires.
Thoughtless mind is a difficult proposition but
compartmentalizing thoughts and handling them one by one
allows reduction of noise level even within the silence.
Disciplined thought and conscious contemplative
concentration towards the thoughts of Param Guru help us to
delete many restless cravings. Thus Maun intends to purify
and empty the mind full of garbage and guilt to allow a “travel
light” concept for spiritual Tirtha.

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 Maun Ensures “Empty Mind” State

Mind without a thought is impossible. So even the mind

is silent, there has to be sound as long we are in this body, so
complete silence of the body and mind is real impossible as
life force is of sound and silence. Yet Maun can ensure a close
encounter with the relativity of silence which denotes empty
mind meaning receptive mind. Empty mind does not mean
that mind in thoughtless state but enough empty to receive
fresh learning. So through the Maun we can rejuvenate our
mind to learn and also to unlearn. Silence at outer level and
less noisy mind of silence at the inner level allows us to be in
the rightful state to “Receive” the bliss or Prashad of eternal
wisdom which is graceful in appearance and melodious silent
sound at the thought level. This allows the process of trashing
our thought that ignites wish which in turn bring pain,
suffering and guilt to regret forever. Thus Maun facilitates
Antar-mukhi-yatra which is the process of dumping the
garbage thought out of the mind, thus emptying for newer
learning of inner sublimity that assures a psychic manifestation
within to explore the inner garbha-griha where Param Guru
resides who swims in the cosmic ocean of sublimity that
denotes the state of soundlessness even with inaudible silence
which is assured by the Maun sadhana.

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 Fathoming Silence and Sound Within

The journey of Maun Sadhana is dynamic and ever

manifestive. It reveals varied perspective of tooling the
inaudible sound of silence within. Our body and mind has
enormous sound. While doing medical “Ultra Sound” one
realizes that how every part of our body creates sound which
remain inaudible for our ears. This is the sound which scales
in the silent zone of our perception. As human ear cannot
perceive all kinds of sound always, yet what is inaudible for
our ears are not really silent. For example, with stethoscope
we can hear the heartbeat which otherwise remain inaudible.

To pattern a harmonious frequency in our body and

mind a Naam Sadhak constantly chants RAM RAM at
unuttered level that in due course empattern every corner of
our body and mind. This constant remembrance allows the
body’s sound frequency to get tuned to the holistic sound of
Ram within, which opens up the prudence of eternal wisdom
that inches towards eternal silence of self realization. Thus
Maun Sadhana makes one realize the sound and analyze the
silence in auto mode before it propels towards a journey of
enlightenment and empowerment at the formless level
meaning beyond our body and mind and yet within the space
which is eternal storehouse of dynamic resonance.

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 Negotiating Through Silence

Maun Sadhana is all about overpowering noise

and negotiating through silence for the journey within. There
are some thumb rules for this Sadhana. There has to be
conscious effort of not to utter and also to minimize body
movement which at its own creates sound. Taking the mind
away from all the audible sound and try to pin the thought
around Ram Bhava, then starts the process of assimilating the
thought energy as if one is performing Yagnya and offering all
thoughts (chintan) to the sacred altar of fire i.e. Param Guru,
then identifying threads of emotions which pose the diversion
and deviation. Then one has to emotively assert and assimilate
the self to dilute the pricking emotions that haunt. If diversion
is consciously not working, then one has to employ intense
Ram Naam in an unuttered way until one reaches the state of
Ram Bhava that swings within with the sound and moves in
the process of smoke meaning spiral upward movement. Thus
ends tunnel of gloom and then we realize a sense of melody
emitting within in its inaudible form and pitch and percolates
as vibration which is physically visible with horipilation of
body hair. Here the body gets tranquil effect as nothing
etches. From there river of silence flows and unveils all
unique experiences of sublimity varying from each individual
or even surpassing one’s own earlier realizations. Thus we
find negotiating a journey within must have a conscious effort,
and at the same time Ram Naam be tooled at different
unuttered frequencies to move ahead and be with the self.

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 Even Visual Has a Sound

Whatever is seen, imagined or perceived through our

inner vision has a sound. Is it sounding strange? But it is true!
What we see is form, shape, colour, dimensions and spheres of
million of lights and shades. Some vision strike our mind and
we give a second glance and that is the spot which create loud
sound, in silence. When our vision is reflected and anything
interests us is the attraction of sound because all that is seen
has its own frequency and that one which strikes has a higher
visual resonance. Thus on Maun Sadhana the place or space is
important. A space with clear vision with no observative
obstructions does help the sadhak. When in silence our vision
and ears work harder in lightning speed. Thus it is all the
more important that visually or audibly we must not encounter
obstructions that divert our internal journey. Meditative eyes
of half opened form dilutes our outer visual obstruction and
facilitates a smoother inner journey. Even at the mind level at
Maun we must avoid “video recall” from some past memory
or we should never try to visualize how people are watching us
as these destroy the process of silencing the noise of noisy
within. The wide unobstructed vision of blue or green horizon
help us to have an obstruction-free vision of silence, and allow
the practice of Maun Sadhana that assures a movement in a
less sounding atmosphere for a blue and tranquil inner journey.

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 Darkness & Light: Silence and Sound

Light has a sound and in darkness it sounds aloud in

silence. After the prolong night of the winter when the day
breaks there is a sound of inaudible kind that springs from the
womb of silence of night which awakens all the life forces.
Petals of the flower unwind and leaf unfolds as the sound
called light prevails upon them. Similarly, if one watches TV
at night then after 10.30 one suddenly finds the sound has
become louder as at that time around deeper night befalls and
silence dawn. Thus we see a direct relation of sound and light
as also darkness and silence.

But in Maun Sadhana there is a mysticism where light

called sound must diminish and silence of night must be
explored to reach the state of pious dawn where light is no
more a loud noise neither its silence with inaudible resonance.
It is light of enlightenment which is sublime.

In Maun Sadhana on darkness the light must play upon.

But the light in life should be melodious and not to sound
aloud. In the perspective of day and night the time line
conjunction (Sandhya) must be explored. Tamasik noise of
silence during darkness must be avoided. The Rajasik element
of light must be reduced and thus all must lead to the state of
Sattvik nature which denotes the twilight hour where darkness
withers and light is not flashy or blinding bright. So the
dawn is the best light temperature where within Maun the
enlightenment dawns.

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 Silencing the Sound of Desire

Life is driven by desire. The desire is an inferno that

finally reduces all as a sucker animal of extreme. In Maun
Sadhana one strategies the self to cap the desire as desire has a
close proximity with aberrations that spoils the Karma. Desire
or wish is a cyclic sound of silence of the mind that splashes a
wish and strives for the same fulfillment unless achieved.
Once a desire is fulfilled another pops up and that’s an
unending process. For this Maharajji has been asking us to
douse the wish flames by not adding oil to the wish lamp.
Silencing the desire is a matter of perception in the state of
Maun Sadhana. Desire is loud conception amidst silence of
thought. It makes one restless and allows a negative fall.
Thus in the state of Maun one must realize the bad impact of
the desire. By the philosophy of “Not this” “Not this” one has
to negate the luxury of harvesting desire after desire which
finally makes us a prisoner of the body, which is just too
mortal and destroyable. To combat the sound called “desire”
one has to put a full stop on desire barring the basic needs. In
the north it is said Hey Bhagwan Kharcha dey (Oh God give
me the expenditure) so that we earn more. It means we are
driven to the extreme by the expenditure we incur. But in
Maun only basics are desired because mind must move to the
internal world of eternity shelving the dominance of
materialism. Desire stalls this. Being humble in our need and
disciplining the life to the basic requirements allow a
conscious movement from “body” to beyond and Maun
Sadhana allows us to perceive this and actualize the mind to
be of less desirous being so that eternity is begotten within the
mental journey. Thus silencing the desire attributes towards
higher journey through silence.

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 Dousing the Flame of Cravings through
Silence

Desire drives the craving instincts. Craving is a mental

state where one lives in the arena of “irresistibleness”. This
represents a chaotic sound (thought) within the silence of
mind. This sound thought is like white ant which destroys the
persona and changes the Karma and drives one to stoop low to
appease the cravings of lower order. Craving makes us a
victim of lust and lure which in turn brings pain and pathos to
ruin our entity. Thus, in Maun Sadhana one is involuntarily
trained to counter the “Craving mind”. It alters our focus of
attraction from body and brings us on soul plane. The
cravings do come also from depravity but one learns through
Maun that “deprivation” is just a mind game and solutions
embedded within waiting to be explored and unearthed. Over
emphasizing self-appeasement and desirous fire of “More
need” make us a stooge of our mortal entity and chance of
mending Karma pattern is lost in the process. Craving for
luxurious food; craving for very high living; craving for
sensuous pleasure of variety; craving for power and money are
the common traits of mortals. Maun Sadhana clears this froth
of craving as happiness is mortal and ananda or bliss is
immortal are realized in the hours of silence. Eternal nectar or
bliss is so intoxicating that the lure of outer world cannot
penetrate. Shunning the cravings of mortal kind is not so
tough if we have complete trust in Param Guru and ultimate
faith in Guru. Because if one practises Maun Sadhana and
turn the mind towards Guru or being Gurumukhi then the
mortal “ills” like cravings fade away for sure. Because bliss
lies beyond our body and that has been the destiny birth after
birth. So, act now to silence the cravings for good.

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 The Sound of the Doubt

In mortal life “doubts” beget “doubt” and it takes us to

the derogatory South of Karma. Maharajji thus proclaims “if
you doubt, you will never grow” because it’s the curse of
humanity that pulls you down for sure, again and again. This
thought lives in silence zone of mind but creates loudest of
sound as doubt is cyclic and manifestive in nature. Doubt is
about self and others, doubt in action and words; doubts in
perception and realization. Doubt is always in search of
enmity. Doubt about the unsure future perplexes our forward
movement. Doubt about other’s past etc. etc.do kill our
thought process as doubts break all the bridges of
relationships. That Param Guru blesses those who never
questions HIM but repose faith in Him as a religious follower.
This is the essence of Bhakti Yog. Param Guru lives in
Maharajji is an absolute truth. But we at times doubt his
words and interpret him in our own mortal way and thus we
create a space for multiplying doubts. Once we are drenched
in doubt we become the worst victim and suffer from the
Syndrome of “point of no return”. If we kill the ego of the
“self” of “I” and realize that Param Guru is the “doer” then
doubts fade. In Maun Sadhana, the doubt is to be erased. Just
one must search the meanings of what Swamiji Maharaj has
preached and Guruji is indicating. In Maun Sadhana, Guru
speaks from within to guide you. You must value it to realize
the reality and absolute truth. During Maun Param Guru
speaks from the deepest within and tells you what to do next as
eternal guide. So why doubt your entity when Guru is holding
your hand and taking you to Param Guru? So, delve down in
this thought process during Maun to make the world a less
complex one for you and others too.

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 Restrain Allows Us to Score With Silence

Few words to remember during the Maun - “It’s

enough”! “I don’t need any more”. “What I will carry with
me at final departure”? “If I desire more then it will finally
bring pain with guilt dividends”. “I am satisfied with what I
am given”; “HE knows best what I deserve and celestial logics
are different from mortal logics”. If we internalize these
words then the thought called “sound” will not detract our life
from spiritual contemplation. The thought fabric must not be
like a wavy ocean rather this should be like a deep flowing
serene river merging into the ocean. Assimilating everything
and realizing the spiritual essence should be foremost in our
mind since our heart desires desperately to meet Maharajji. To
checkmate this urge our very thought must be disciplined with
restraint lest our Sadhana is disturbed because of our over-
enthusiasm of meeting him. Such should be the level of
restraint. In Maun Sadhana we must realize that “Restraint” as
prescribed by Swamiji Maharaj should be our Gita.
Contentment and solace within about the mundane calling
facilitates growth at the level of Restraint within. The drive of
desire and craving do cause a lot of problem but with restraint
one easily counters it. Because the inner journey becomes
feasible when we carry less guilt, less mortal attachment and
subdued mortal learning and turn our mind to Param Guru for
spiritual excellence . In Maun Sadhana we must reduce the
mental conflicts and retain its spiritual essence that make us
realize the higher truth away from the mundane Rajasik and
Tamasik Tattwa of life. And this journey begins only with
restraint that assures us begetting Guru Tattwa during our
lifetime.

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 Duties are Melodious Sound

Swamiji Maharaj proclaimed that for Ram Naam

Sadhak, duties are core of life. He never meant spiritualism
requires renunciation. Instead he urged the Sadhaks to remain
duty-bound towards their family, relations and parivars of
Ram Naam Sadhaks. He only prescribed to remember
constantly Ram Naam while doing any kind of duties. Again
for Ram Naam Sadhak it is important to reduce attachments
and expect results from duties. Expectations lead to
disappointment and conflict of mind triggers from it resulting
in noise of the mind and that destroys Sadhana. Thus in Maun
Sadhana one must limit the worldly affairs to his/her basic
duties and more energy be devoted to the Sadhana. A duty if
one discharges to one’s given ability gives a sense of
satisfaction and also a sense of achievement. At this the
thought process becomes a melody of mind. From this state
turning the mind flow towards inner journey becomes easier.
Thus melody called duty if nurtured then Sadhana gets power
to propel. And in Maun Sadhana, when we are satisfied even
in relative sense, our inner contemplation becomes easy.
During Maun however, we should not allow any kind of
attachment to tickle in and create chaos in mind. This means a
satisfied self facilitates the growth of inner tranquility that
ensures a vigorous Sadhana tooling the concept of Silence.
Thus, we should say to ourselves “let us do our best within our
capacities towards our duty” so that while in antarmukhi state
we should not be troubled by pulls and pushes of mortal
endeavour.

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 Relationship and Maun

Life is mystified with relationship as some of them are

related through birth and some are beyond. Every relation
creates a compartment of thought and knitted with duties and
rights. These thoughts are like the sound in the silent zones of
mind. Keeping the relation in good humour is the balancing
act in which all indulges. And most of us live for it and
consume our whole energy to handle these varied relations. In
the Maun Sadhana these relations are valued in positive note
and to be contemplated for their well being through prayers.
But the complexity of relationship should be kept at bay while
doing Maun Sadhana. Thus it is pertinent to realize that any
given relationship has many subtle nuances and shades. Again
if these are not handled from a psychical distance these
complexities become a baggage at the thought level that
hinders the process of our inner traverse. All relations, no
matter how close you think, should be respected and loved.
But the self persona must not get attached too deep as at the
end of the day you are unable to salvage yourself from the
entanglement of relationship for your own spiritual
contemplations.

Thus in Maun Sadhana, we should have the flair for

love for all the relations but this is not the time to celebrate or
brood over them because those thoughts become noise at the
mind plane. While silencing the inner mind all kind of
emotive frequencies must be either in harmonious tone or be
limited to its entity and be kept aside while delving deep
within. One should keep in mind that reflections of
relationship should not cast its shadow over the self-
introspection as love, hate and demand arising out of any given
relation stall our progress. During Maun Sadhana mind must
be clear and only focused towards Param Guru within and
nothing else.

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 Anger and Violence Unseat Silence

Anger within and without violent emotive stream of

thought create very loud sound that reaches chaotic level
within minutes as we reflect anything with dejection. The
body and mind become charged with noise so it reflect
outwardly as well. These noise frequencies spoil the
tranquility of dynamic kind. Behavior, words and expressions
become aggressive and inner-self get fragmented.

Silencing this anger come from meditative mindset. In

this process we must not be victims of contrasts and
disharmony because anger comes to the fore when we cross
our swords with a touch of intolerance and lack of restraint.
Again, anger peeps when we want to overshow our
prominence, power and strength and thoughts become superior
and subordinate to none. Anger postures violence when our
inner un-tranquil state of mind boils out of deprivation,
frustration and even non-recognition.

To combat this situation we should be cool receptor of

things around and we should not react in a hurry. Tolerance
and patience ensures growth of silence that can banish the loud
noise of anger and violence because anger spoils Karma
resulting in rise of guilt which spoil our future as well.

In Maun Sadhana this art of “internalizing and

analysing” comes at play involuntarily. When we desist from
utterance then we invite no tension from social inequality as it
is said “dumb” has no enemy. Silence begets patience and
increases the power of tolerance. Maun Sadhana allows us a
realization that the world is not equal and inequalities are the
natural rule of the world. Thus taking mind away from
disharmony of the world towards inner harmonious self help
us in handling anger and mending our “response system”
which works towards silencing the noisy temperaments.

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 Rough Sounds of Jealousy and Envy

This world is unequal. Thus gap at socio-economic

psychological intellectual and spiritual level is very much
there as universal truth. Pain, suffering, marginalization or
dominance give rise to rivalry and take the shape of envy and
jealousy. These behaviour patterns are normal and most
people suffer from this from top of the society to the lowest of
the low. These bring us to the chaotic sound level and our
inner tranquility gets destroyed. We get bogged down to the
whirlpool of earthly life undermining the final spiritual goal
destined by Param Guru.

Maun Sadhana helps us to alter the perspective which

always keeps us unsettled. Through silence we realize that
mortal and materialistic life is transitional and all given
situations are just temporary phase of life for the journey of the
soul which passes through several births of silence and sound.
Situation of yesterday is not there today so the situation of
today will not be there the day after as Kabir said “Aisa din
aur nahi rahega”. Now we realize that disparities create rough
sound and make us envious. So through tooling silence we
reach the final frontiers of innerself where only one emotion
called “love” prevails and that assures inner tranquility and
outer silence combined with Maun Sadhana help us to mend
our perception while journeying towards our goal of being
Gurumukhi and Antarmukhi.

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 Melody of Love is Silence

Eternity floats on the water of Bhakti-Bhava. Eternal

love is the sacred lotus which promises to demystify cosmic
wisdom of immortal love. In Maun Sadhana when one
journeys within one finds the element of love. Love for Guru
and trustful love for Guru vachan fashions the eternity of
Param Guru who is the epitome of love. Within the fabric of
deep silence of the mind the sound of love exists. This
element of love does pass through earthly passion, yet it scales
beyond the mortal concept. Prem Bhava that emits from
within while negotiating the inner journey helps us mending
our mortal behavioural pattern. Thus in Maun Sadhana one
keeps on discovering various hues of love. These
“discovered” elements assure discipline the self. It can easily
cap negations of the mind and empattern overhauling of our
behavioural pattern. Love of silence reflects on our mortal
attitude and makes us realize that love is basically and finally
“Selfless”. When we realize that love is divine and eternal and
not entirely worldly passion then we can discipline our daily
life and banish the evils of envy, jealousy and enmity. In
Maun Sadhana the final goal is love and selfless love for
Param Guru. Thus love at the realizing level ensures
delinking self from aberrations and allow piousness to prevail.
This element of love in silence sounds great as we are elevated
at the karmic level.

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 Noise of Depression and Deprivation

Our mortal life is full of chaos. It basically propels from

failure and de-recognition to the state of depression where our
behavior pattern starts malfunctioning. Depression bears the
Karmic suffering as frustration and anger take the front seat.
At the other level deprivation is too noisy and disturbs our
Karma. Maun Sadhana can heal these ailing factors. While
exploring silence within one encounters scores of sound of
mortal kind. The shift from mortal inequality to the eternity is
possible when we realize Guru is God sent blessing and bliss
for us. And it’s Guru Vachan that can help us for safe
negotiation in life. When we place Guru as a perfect icon
before our third eye then we find mortal noise of deprivation
and depression fading away. Thereafter come the realization
that it is Param Guru who stands behind the Guru as eternal
aura which is ever manifesting within. This state of Maun
Sadhana allows us to realize our destiny and we don’t fall for
small cravings. When we realize that Param Guru is our
Niyati or Destiny and who is not part of Karma the destiny of
final kind, then worldly pain and pathos get reduced. Thus
sound of frustration deprivation and depression are just
symptoms of earthly life which is the result of our own created
Karma of over indulgence in materialism. Now through Maun
Sadhana we limit our endeavour to our duties only with no
expectations, which in course allows us to travel to the higher
plane of silence where Param Guru resides. This assures
eternal tranquility and blissful healing of the self.

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 Senses are Sound of Detractor

What we hear, what we see, what we feel are through

our mortal sensory organs. These are prism of experiencing
life. Apart from hearing, the vision, body sensation and
experiencing cohesion do have their individual audible and
mostly inaudible sound. Even the taste of the tongue and
smell do have element of sound. These sensory functions
create noise and that detract the mind and attachment anchors
one to mortal mundaneness as pleasure seeking intensifies
with time haunted with the desire of “More and More”. This
noise level detracts the spiritual contemplation. In Maun
Sadhana, we tend to move out of overshadowing mortal
craving to something beyond our body. In this process the
sensory craving stalls the process of introspection. Because at
thought level these create emotive imbalances which defocus
the mind as there are loud noises at the silent level. Thus
while internalizing one has to shun the sounds that create
problems. In Maun Sadhana one borrows hordes of silence
from within and play upon the mind to silence the sound of
cravings. Extinguishing the fire of sensory organs is possible
only with intensive Ram Naam Jaap and by fixing the mind on
Param Guru with remembrance of Guru Vachan.

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 Hearing by the Innerself

Maun Sadhana is all about hearing the eternal mind.

This is possible when one turns the mind away from external
sound and noise of thought process. Culturing the listening
technique comes from a receptive empty mind which is very
eager to learn and more than ready to unlearn. Inner self when
revealed gives one huge scope of exploring the self. But one
should be aware that at times pretension of unreal for a long
time becomes a belief which is an illusion of mortal kind. To
keep these illusions away from the mind one must culture the
innerself. The USP of innerself is innocence. This inner
innocence assures the dawning of dynamic within once we
accept it on face value. This state of innocence is accessible
by our mortal innocence which must not have loud load of
guilt or any other form of unholy attitude. Thus it means to
unlock the inner self one has to improve the Karmic pattern.
Swamiji Maharaj has thus given highest importance to the
character of the Sadhak because if one is not pure in thought
and action then the inner purity will elude. In Maun Sadhana
when body and mind is engulfed with Ishta Chintan then one
becomes ready vessel which in course would collect the inner
wisdom by hearing the voice of Param Guru within. It is the
destiny of the Sadhak and so all kind of noises are to be
eliminated from the mind before one starts hearing the eternal
self from within.

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 Smelling Silence of Lotus

Smell has its own sound and silence. Do you buy this
idea? Think further! Aroma of sumptuous food awakens our
appetite and mind hears its sound amidst silence of thought.
Aroma of flower brings about melody of thought and inhaling
it one “feels good”. Aroma of incense stick, guggul etc. rent
the air as spiritualism comes to the fore. Thus smell can create
a lot of sound and melody. Even at times it echoes as sound of
silence.

During Maun Sadhana smell has a great role to play.

Soothing and pious aroma invokes an inner tranquility.
During Maun Sadhana one should not try to smell anything
that enrages sense organ or brings about a craving be of the
material things or food. Smell sounds very loud and it detracts
our mind from our mission because aroma and its presence are
larger than the life if we try to analyze. Yet we all know the
journey of the mortal body passes through varied kind of
smell which is unavoidable be it good or bad.

Thus during Maun Sadhana one must try to create a

“lesser noisy” aroma within the smelling vicinity. Maun
introspection ensures lesser attachment of all kind and aroma
stands prominent. All the creation of Panchabhuta has its own
smell and if we journey through natural aroma of dew, grass,
tree and rain etc. it help us to reduce the noise element of what
we generally smell. Our innerself is like the lotus, which is
sublime but has no aroma of flower kind yet, it possesses most
beautiful inner smell though aroma-less but immensely
tranquil augmenting our antarmukhi yatra or inner sublime
journey.

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 Maun Sadhana – Some Whispers

Even today Swamiji Maharaj whispers RAM RAM,

guides us and helps a newer perspective to dawn upon us even
within the established notions of Maun or silence. Maun
whispers and tells us to silence the outer and inner sound.
Silence has its own frequencies of inaudible sound rising to
the level of noise. Maun Sadhana allows us to be Gurumukhi
and inch towards Param Guru. In serene silence one journeys
inside to find out the illuminated centre of silence. Maun
Sadhana engineers the process of Chetana or inner awareness
and purifies Chintan (thought process) which holds on to
cosmic awareness that tickles from within drop by drop.

Through this write up we have travelled few centimeters

on our journey to such the goal of Maun Sadhana. The basic
logic must have been to redefine sound beyond the concept of
“audible” sound. It has delved deep into the concept of silence
which is characteristically very noisy. Maun Sadhana is all
about jumping over the noise level and be in silence. During
this process of Chintan we have realized that we have been
ignoring many elements of Maun which we should have
known provided we did Maun Sadhana for ourselves and not
for others around us.

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 The concept of silence whispers that Maun Dharana
(perception) rules Maun Sadhana. Inner self is distanced from
the self due to all kind of mortal sound and silence. It is away
from the physical acoustic theory where sound and silence
cannot be scaled. Spiritual contemplative acoustic works on
immortal plane allowing a close encounter of final kind where
sound diminishes and sound no more sounds when eternal
brightness engulf the soul with universal silence. The passage
through Maun Sadhana ensures this enlightenment where
Maya never pulls us down and existence is the tranquil light
conceived as Ramaloka or Vaikuntha where Shri Ram resides
beyond the timelessness and spacelessness of eternity. With
Ram Naam, let us begin our Maun Sadhana once again, anew
and afresh. Let Ram Naam manifests in silence of eternal
enlightenment.

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