Mahakatha's Meditation Mantras

You must have heard that silence is golden.

But today, I wanna ask you, what does that silence

include? Does it only include

the silence of our voice, our words? What

if it also included the other small

and big sounds that we create in our day to day

lives? Like the sound of placing your coffee cup on the table,

like the sound of the keyboard clattering every time you're working

on your laptop, are the screeching sound of your chair being dragged

back every time you want to get up? What if we try

to live without creating any of these sounds,

what if we try to live in pure

silence? How golden would that

silence be? Namaste and welcome to yet

another episode of Mahakatha meditation mantras.

I'm your host, Preeti. And in this episode, we are

talking about silence. The

beauty of silence is that it is a perfectly

acceptable expression of any emotion,

a response to any emotion.

So silence has every emotion in it.

You can be silent in anger. You can be silent out of

fear, out of shock, out of joy, out of

excitement, out of love, out of hatred,

or out of longing, silence

holds every emotion in it

and yet it is also empty

of all emotions, there is no expression

in silence. Silence in this way

Is distancing yourself from emotions.

It is refusing to express. Refusing

to participate. To repeat and the very fact that it holds

the possibility of any emotion within it

and still is empty of all emotions

is the beauty of silence. And it

seems very easy to simply stop talking. It

seems like it engages very few muscles in our body,

and it takes just one decision to simply stop

talking, to simply be silent. But it

is much harder as we all know from our own experience

to maintain this silence, to maintain this

restraint and mastery over our voice and our words

and our expression. One small

trigger, one small meaningless

trigger is enough to shake us out of

the silence. It takes a lot of effort

and if you actually tried to even be silent

in everything you do like working on

your laptop or drawing the curtains or moving

the chair back, as I mentioned, that would take

much more effort and we would fail at that in

multiple ways. But here's the deal.

Even if we simply try to do this,

even if we try to be completely,

purely silent for a day or even for an

hour. We would be changed from within.

Here's what would happen if you observed complete

silence for a day. The first thing to

happen would be that all your aggressive emotions,

your anger, your resentment, your anxiety

would all be confused and restless, and they

would eventually come down. That's

because without the outlet of your words or your

physical actions, these emotions will get,

like I said, restless. Typically, they will want to

shatter things and scream and cry, but when

you decide to practice silence, total

pure silence, this aggression of

your emotions, this sharpness will

melt and soften and water down

to their underlying emotions. Anger

will melt down and water down to perhaps

pain. Aggression will water down to

just disappointment and anxiety

will perhaps melt down to a form of acceptance

and your mind and body will learn that you can control

your actions. You can control your words. Your mind and

body will learn that it is possible to take

a break from doing, from acting on your feelings

and your thoughts and impulses. Because right now a

lot of us do things and say things out of compulsion.

And then we say things like I don't know why I said that. I

don't know why I did that. I'm so sorry. But by trying to

practice pure silence, we teach our

mind and our body that we can take a

break from acting on our feelings and our thoughts.

You will also discover and learn how to love

silently and it is more challenging than you might

think. You will learn to love

gently, to love with kindness, to love

without being totally dependent on someone or having to

seek validation from someone. You will

also learn how to be a gentler person to

cause the least amount of friction or disruption and to

care for the smallest things. To pay attention to the

smallest things while you perform the simplest tasks -

how you place a cup on a table, how

you pull the curtains together, how you move

the chair backwards with the least amount

of friction or disruption. This

paying attention to the smallest things is what

we call mindfulness. And

most of all you will find out for yourself that

silence is really worth it. That

the sages and the scholars and the gurus are not

exaggerating it. Silence really is

powerful. When you experience it for

yourself, when you try to practice pure silence

yourself, you will discover that you can think better

when you are silent. You will find that you can work better.

You can find more clarity. You can express

better, you can relax better. And

despite all your imperfections, you will feel

better about yourself and your life right now.

It's not easy but it is worth

a try. All of this by simply

trying to practice whole

pure silence. So if you're with

me on this experiment, this experiment of

being a silent participant in

the universe, I want you to try and practice as

much of this as you can in the next few days. Try to

be quiet at everything you do. Try to

preserve your voice and slow down your actions

as much as you can. I know there will be exceptions you will

have to make while trying to practice this at work, for

example, but otherwise try to practice

pure silence every chance you get and

then observe the changes that take place in your thoughts.

Observe the places your mind goes to and the

strange peace that you feel.

Speaking about silence and peace and

power, today, I introduce to you

the Om Shanti

Mantra. This mantra literally means

Shanti or peace. It is an invocation

a summoning of peace within us

and around us and that's why it goes so

well with the practice of pure silence.

This mantra is such that it will automatically

have a softening effect on you and your emotions

Within the 1st few seconds for some people, it has

softened their aggressive emotions, their pain,

their anger, the restlessness and it

has made the mind open up to

more peace and clarity. The Om Shanti

mantra is something that you can adopt into your

life as an affirmation just like many of

our listeners have and every time you find yourself

feeling triggered or getting riled up or feeling impulsive

or about to say or do something that you normally wouldn't

want to say or do, simply chant this mantra

in your mind once, thrice,

7 times or how many ever times you feel like

and feel a sense of calmness and

silence wash over you. I would

really love for you to have this mantra and to

try to achieve pure silence with this

mantra. If you'd like to avail this mantra

now, You can get it at a 30% discount

simply by using the code mentioned in the description of this

episode. Try it along with our

experiment that we discussed today and let me know how

it goes. That brings us towards the end of

today's topic, today's episode. And before I

leave you, I want to thank you once again for

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blessed.