This power of silence is a capacity and not an incapacity, a power and not a weakness. It is a profound and pregnant stillness. Only when the mind is thus entirely still, like clear, motionless and level water, in a perfect purity and peace of the whole being and the soul transcends thought, can the Self which exceeds and originates all activities and becomings, the Silence from which all words are born, the Absolute of which all relativities are partial reflections manifest itself in the pure essence of our being. In a complete silence only is the Silence heard; in a pure peace only is its Being revealed. Therefore to us the name of That is the Silence and the Peace. (Sri Aurobindo)
Table of Content
I. ON SILENCE
1. Words
2. Silence
II. SILENCE – THE FOUNDATION OF SADHANA
1. Quiet and Calm
2. Quietude
3. Quiet Mind
4. Vacant Mind
5. Calm
6. Silence – Freedom from Thoughts
7. Silence and True Knowledge
8. Silence and Quietness of Mind
9. Silence, Peace and Calm
10. Silence and True Activity
III. EMPTINESS, VOIDNESS, BLANKNESS AND SILENCE
1. Periods of Emptiness
2. Emptiness – A Transitional State
3. Voidness
4. Blankness
5. Emptiness, Blankness and Silence
6. Emptiness, Voidness and the Self
7. Silence, Thought and Action
8. Silence behind Life
9. Silence and Creative Power
10. Descent of Silence
11. Silence and Experiences
12. The Word out of the Silence
IV. POEMS
1. The Word of the Silence
2. Silence is All
3. In the Silence of the Midnight
4. To the Hill-tops of Silence
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