On Silence
Then the mother of a deaf girl
with muted sorrow in her eyes said.
Tell us about silence.
Ananda waited for the murmur of the
eucalyptus leaves
to whisper its last secrets through the hills.
He seemed absorbed in a wordless
conversation with himself
as he said:….
Silence is the womb of all that is
spoken and heard.
Silence is the flow of the river of intelligence.
Like riverbanks, words are mere interruptions of this flow.
Silence is the unspoken truth of the universe. Words are at best masks
that embellish the face of truth with their many devices.
The forlorn lover sitting on the edge
of the river
Pines for her lost love in dumb despair.
Only numbing silence connects heart with heart….
In silence words return to their essence,
just as noisy rivers merge with the ocean.
Through words, One becomes many;
in silence many return to the One.
An Interview with Dr Debashis
Recently, Dr Debashis gave a talk on The Art of Relationship at Whatever, a Singapore new age centre. We managed to catch up with Dr Debashis and asked him some questions that we think our readers might be interested in.
