The secret of 'Silence' (mouna)

  'Silence' (mouna) is the natural state. Silence exists when nothing else exist! Silence is thus the primordial state of existence. It is from silence that everything else, like the sound, the alphabets, the words, phrases and the sentences that try to explain the paraphernalia of the spiritual and material world manifests. Thus, we see the silence at the base of the creation. The sounds of varied diverse names and forms have their root in silence! But whatever manifests from this silence has to be something subtler and then develop into gross forms. Ordinarily the gross forms are easily noticed by the senses but the subtler aspect of the same goes unnoticed. The subtler and the subtle-most aspects of all that exist are deep-rooted in silence. This silence manifests in four earliest states such as the Absolute Silence (mahattanta shanta), which develops into pradhvansha and pragbhava states and finally appears as vibration, tremors (kampana)  and waves of different intensity, frequency, wavelengths and their effects! Thus what all one sees is the gross form of material world and the subtler aspects have to be discovered, if one wants to know. This takes us to a wonderful field of vyahrutis like the bhu, bhuvah, svar, mahar, janah, tapah and the sat. Hence, it may be said that- "Silence speaks louder than the sound"!

   The origin of the sound can be raced to the friction, vibration, tremors, flow and expansion. It starts from the elements that constitute the stars, the sun and the elements like space, air, fire, water, earth, and all that stir and move here! The primordial sound is said to be: 'Om' ('AUM'), hrIM, SrIM, klIm. These are the earliest sounds that emanated from the divine sources! The exact location of the points of origin of the first sound is yet to be traced. It is now so crowded noisy a place that it is extremely difficult to trace it! The origin of the sounds, however, can be easily traced within us if we can apply the principle of "tattvamasi"!. Where else can be the source of sound but our own breath? 

  The most beautiful experience one can have is to experience the deep silence in the pitch dark! This is almost stated as the sakshatkara, a divine bliss! Meditate on 'silence' in deep silence, the brahmn!