Echoes of Silence

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

Sound echoes but when we say Silence has the same characteristics then one would surely contradict and question our statement! In a valley when we say aloud “RAUUM” it gets echoed after it comes back touching the mountain of silence. But if we think differently then we can conclude variedly and a new concept can dawn. Think I have uttered in high pitch the word “Ram” that went and touched the mountain and came back to me as echo. But from the perspective of the mountain if we think, then we would realize that the sound of the “Ram” came to the mountain and the echo was sent back to me, as I created the first sound. But it is important to understand when echo crashes to the space from the “origin” of the sound creates the echo of silence that again travels back to the mountain where vibration of sound gets assimilated into the fragmentation of silence which returns as echo of silence. It means what I heard was echo - but after a while the mountain where the sound reflected heard the echo of silence as Raum at inaudible level which transcends that space. Maun has to get to this state of silence where resonance may not sound but vibration prevails.