Exploring Silence

Dr Gautam Chatterjee


Refer each statement everyday and realize what silence means to you and how it empowers you with a perspective to understand a new horizon of concept within sound and silence

Within the soundlessness the first sound surfaced.

Sound creates in a manifestive fashion, as long it is not noise.


Sound and silence are the mystic concepts when we see them objectively from a distance.

Sound is not a bachelor as its consort is Silence.

Sound is the conscious drawn painting on the canvas called silence.

Sounding an utterance punctuated with silence is an expression.

Expressions are paused and freeze in a rhythm to make it understandable.

The relation of sound and silence is writing on a black surface with white ink. The reverse colour speaks volumes than the words.

Silence is not blank expressionless concept. It speaks more coherently than the expressed or uttered words.

Sound sustains on the chaos of silence and silence is also loud if we hear them deep.


Deep inside us, if perceived properly, there is a play of sound and silence.

Silence has its own layers. Sound has its constant presence. When suddenly electricity goes off then we realize a sense of deep silence descending.

Generally, deep at night we feel different layers of silence. Similarly when we contemplate deep inside we can explore different layers of silence within.

When we cease to talk for long we feel a sense of silence at the ambiance levels.

But, silence is not non-utterance. Because our thought within though remain unuttered has its own sound and even scale the level of chaos.

While meditating, we find the oceanic sound comes out at the thought level and disturbs our concentration. This state always exists only we are not aware of this.

Silencing the loud silence is the tough challenge for anybody.

Thinking pattern in silence is also sound but un-uttered. This thought sound runs on the platform of deeper silence where the inner consciousness stays un-awakened.

Exploring self is also tooling unuttered silence for a journey within.

The conscious effort of exploring silence when ceases then we find ourselves swimming involuntarily and slowly deeper consciousness get awakened.

Exploring silence within means we have to travel deep beyond the conscious thinking on the outer layers of our conscious mind.

Experimenting with self is to discover innermost state beyond the ‘mind’. But mind it, silence has many layers and much is beyond our ‘conscious’ comprehension!

Silence is the eternal guide and speaks out at right time to inform us about the future as well!


Silence is the light and our navigation through silence takes us to the state of enlightenment.

Silence is explored through our pure thinking process.

The ill wishes of our mind must cease if we have to explore the silence because inner silence is sacred, pure and pious.

There exists a riot of thought through not aloud. We need to silence the chaos to put a step forward four our journey to explore unknown frontiers of silence.

Our words and actions are echoes of our inner unuttered silence. To mend our actions we need to re-orient our thinking process.

Our thoughts are first phase of unuttered sound which we mistakenly cal silence. Remember, silence is beyond it.

Our silent thought and secret desires and cherished wishes create the chaos at the soundlessness silent mind plain.

One needs to dress up the mind to encounter the sacred silence. And dressing up means a thought cleansing process.

Self-cleansing comes when we voluntarily do constant remembrance which is pious be it the name of God or saint.

The ethics of silencing the silence is possible when we pep-up our morality at the functional levels.

Pious thinking and reverence to all with deep touch of love which is not to beget anything but to give and give only. This are the pre-requisites of the disciplining the mind.

Putting the mind to rest is to wishfully avoiding the mortal over cravings. Because, mortal cravings are noise and silently it strokes.
Moreover, these cravings become aberrations at the expressions and action level.

Sound or our utterance if coated with love then the silence at the deeper level unfolds.

At the thought level, if we nurture pain, regrets, anguishes, jealousy, anger and vengeances then we consciously kill our peace of mind as our mind becomes volatile and chaotic.

Silence is explored deeper when we pattern our thinking then peace we experience that is traveling inside called ‘No-Noise silent zone’

Breathing in a systematic fashion allows a sense of calmness and that reduces the volatile tide of oceanic thought process.

Bhakti Bhava or the sense of loving all in this and the other world ensures a satisfied silence exploration within.

A sense of selflessness evokes a higher sense of silence within.

Loneliness is not to be mistaken as silence. Because true silence gives sparks of inspiration and definitely depression will never visit.

Too much of self-love and deep inclination of indulgence create the buffer for the explorer of silence.

Within our body and mind we have enormous unuttered sound. To silence them we have to work on them being conscious.