Silence is beautiful only if it is rooted in awareness; if it is not rooted in awareness, then it is utterly empty.
An ancient Sufi parable says:
Four persons decided to go into silence. They moved into a cave; they wanted to live in silence for three months, because they had heard so much about it — they had become so much intrigued. They were so ambitious to gain something out of it. It was not understanding that had brought them to the cave. It was greed, it was desire, ambition.
Four persons decided to go into silence. They moved into a cave; they wanted to live in silence for three months, because they had heard so much about it — they had become so much intrigued. They were so ambitious to gain something out of it. It was not understanding that had brought them to the cave. It was greed, it was desire, ambition.
Hence within minutes everything was exposed. Just within minutes the first man said, “I wonder whether I have put the candle out or not? It will be a sheer wastage, there is nobody in the house.”
The second one said, “You fool! You have spoken! And we have taken the vow of silence.”
The third one laughed and said, “You are a greater fool! If he had spoken, what was the need for you to speak?”
And the fourth one said, “Thank God, I am the only one who has not spoken yet.”
The second one said, “You fool! You have spoken! And we have taken the vow of silence.”
The third one laughed and said, “You are a greater fool! If he had spoken, what was the need for you to speak?”
And the fourth one said, “Thank God, I am the only one who has not spoken yet.”
* Just by being silent nothing changes, you remain the same. Transformation comes through awareness.
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