[March 25, 2014 Shri Guna Darsana from Bali, Indonesia requested Swami i to !i"e a messa!

e for the enli!htenment of #indus in Indonesia, who cele$rate %&'(I Da) *+ne Da) Silence, this month endMessa!e of Swami i. It is a matter of happiness to note that people are celebrating a specific day as the day of silence. Silence is called as Samadhi and the person adopting silence (Mounam) is called as the sage (Muni). Silence does not mean the deep sleep, which is total unawareness. The deep sleep involves the unawareness of the awareness of this world and also the unawareness of this world. Silence involves the awareness of your unawareness of the absolute unimaginable God. The deep sleep is the climax of unawareness or ignorance. The silence is the climax of the nowledge, which is awareness. This silence is the next step after concentration (!hyana) as per the "oga Sutras of #atan$ali. Concentration here means the deep analysis about the knowledge of the absolute God. The %eda also says that there are four stages. The first stage is called as &Vaisva', which is the awareness of the world in the awa ened state ((aagrat). The second stage is called as &Taijasa', which represents the awareness of the world created by mind in the state of dream (Swapna). The third stage is called as &Praajna', which is the total non)awareness involving the non)awareness of awareness and non)awareness in the state of deep sleep (Sushupti). These three states are common to all the living beings and the concept of *od does not exist here. The fourth stage is called as &Turiyam', which is the awareness of non)awareness of the absolute unimaginable *od. This fourth state is limited to very few people, who are the see ers of *od as said & Turiyam Brahma'. This is the final concept of the spiritual nowledge and is the foundation of the world peace. If all the universal religions understand that the original God is unimaginable, the conflict between religions disappears. If the religions ta e the absolute *od as imaginable and understood, there will be multiplicity in the concepts. The reason for this multiplicity is that this imaginable creation is constituted by several imaginable items. +ach religion selects a specific imaginable item as the absolute *od and this results in the multiplicity and conflict of religions. Therefore, the way of silence indicates the awareness through reali,ation of the unimaginable ultimate *od, thereby leading to the end of inter)religious wars resulting in the world peace. "ou may argue that Shan ara said that *od is the result of deep sleep (Sushuptyeka siddhah). -ut, here, you should understand that

the word Sushupti here is limited to the unawareness relating to absolute *od only. If you argue that Sushupti is the original deep sleep, you cannot conclude that *od is the result of deep sleep since you are in total unawareness. The point that you are passing on this statement indicates that you are in the awareness of the concept relating to *od. .ere, the word awareness should be ta en as the process of nowing *od or world and should not be ta en as the form of energy as an item. -y this the word awareness need not be ta en as *od as per the /dvaita philosophers. The process or wor is never accepted as *od by the /dvaita philosopher. In fact, the awareness itself is only a specific wor and this is the main reason to deny that awareness is *od. .ence, the awareness ta en as an item or substratum is only an illusion based on which you are trying to establish awareness is *od. 0n this day, you are not spea ing any word indicating that *od cannot be described by any word ( Yato Vachah %eda) due to .is actual unimaginable nature. Shan ara also defined that the absolute *od can be explained only through silence (Mouna Vyakhya). "our mind and intelligence must be silent indicating that *od cannot be thought by mind and that *od cannot be discussed by any logic of any intelligence. "ou should be aware of such unimaginable *od, so that this day of silence becomes fruitful. If you think about the worldly issues or sleeping without thinking anything, this day is useless. +ven though you tal and if your tal s are concentrated on this concept, still, you are participating on the day of silence. Therefore, you should reali,e the significance of anything through the analysis and arriving at the right conclusions of nowledge to be followed by the practice that gives the fruit.