Sunday, June 20, 2010

Darkness & Light: Silence and Sound

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

Light has a sound and in darkness it sounds aloud in silence. After the prolong night of the winter when the day breaks there is a sound of inaudible kind that springs from the womb of silence of night which awakens all the life forces. Petals of the flower unwind and leaf unfolds as the sound called light prevails upon them. Similarly, if one watches TV at night then after 10.30 one suddenly finds the sound has become louder as at that time around deeper night befalls and silence dawn. Thus we see a direct relation of sound and light as also darkness and silence.

But in Maun Sadhana there is a mysticism where light called sound must diminish and silence of night must be explored to reach the state of pious dawn where light is no more a loud noise neither its silence with inaudible resonance. It is light of enlightenment which is sublime.

In Maun Sadhana on darkness the light must play upon. But the light in life should be melodious and not to sound aloud. In the perspective of day and night the time line conjunction (Sandhya) must be explored. Tamasik noise of silence during darkness must be avoided. The Rajasik element of light must be reduced and thus all must lead to the state of Sattvik nature which denotes the twilight hour where darkness withers and light is not flashy or blinding bright. So the dawn is the best light temperature where within Maun the enlightenment dawns.

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