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== Experiencing silence ==

== Experiencing silence ==

[[Kena Upanishad]] tells us -  यद्वाचाऽनभ्युदितं येन वागभ्युद्यते – "That which is not uttered by speech that by which speech is revealed" (I.5), - यच्छ्रोत्रेण न शृणोति येन श्रोत्रमिदं श्रुतम् - "That which man does not hear with the ear, that by which man knows the ear", - तदेव ब्रह्म त्वं विद्धि नेदं यदिदमुपासते - "know that to be Brahman and not this that people worship as an object" (I.9).<ref>{{cite book|title=Eight Upanishads Vol.1|publisher=Advaita Ashrama|pages=49-53|url=https://advaitaashrama.org/Book/Detail/262 }}</ref> It is only when the knower is utterly negative and yet aware that the known conveys Its secret to him, that the process of knowing as emanating from the knower ceases, and that the interval between knowing and not knowing is not covered by any projection of the knower. The sensitive mind ready to receive the subtlest intimation of [[Brahman]] responds to the voice of silence. The mind liberated from even the attribute of ''[[sattva]]'' must stand in front of utter silence. [[Yajnavalkya]] insists that the spiritual man in order to experience Brahman must transcend both silence (''mauna'') and non-silence (''amauna'').<ref>{{cite book|title=The Call of the Upanishads|author=Rohit Mehta|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|page=38,276|url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_aGXsz4C2z8C&pg=PA276&dq=silence+upanishads&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZBNeU4eTKIWurAfwp4GACQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=silence%20upanishads&f=false}}</ref>

[[Kena Upanishad]] tells us -  यद्वाचाऽनभ्युदितं येन वागभ्युद्यते – "That which is not uttered by speech that by which speech is revealed" (I.5), - यच्छ्रोत्रेण न शृणोति येन श्रोत्रमिदं श्रुतम् - "That which man does not hear with the ear, that by which man knows the ear", - तदेव ब्रह्म त्वं विद्धि नेदं यदिदमुपासते - "know that to be Brahman and not this that people worship as an object" (I.9).<ref>{{cite book|title=Eight Upanishads Vol.1|publisher=Advaita Ashrama|pages=49-53|url=https://advaitaashrama.org/Book/Detail/262 }}</ref> It is only when the knower is utterly negative and yet aware that the known conveys Its secret to him, that the process of knowing as emanating from the knower ceases, and that the interval between knowing and not knowing is not covered by any projection of the knower. The sensitive mind ready to receive the subtlest intimation of [[Brahman]] responds to the voice of silence. The mind liberated from even the attribute of ''[[sattva]]'' must stand in front of utter silence. [[Yajnavalkya]] insists that the adhyatmik man in order to experience Brahman must transcend both silence (''mauna'') and non-silence (''amauna'').<ref>{{cite book|title=The Call of the Upanishads|author=Rohit Mehta|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|page=38,276|url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_aGXsz4C2z8C&pg=PA276&dq=silence+upanishads&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZBNeU4eTKIWurAfwp4GACQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=silence%20upanishads&f=false}}</ref>

== Practice of silence ==

== Practice of silence ==