Maun(Non-utterance) – A Perception

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

Swamiji Satyanandji Maharaj(1861-1960) had prescribed that MAUN sadhana as one of the eternal concept to get salvation for Ram Naam Sadhak. One wonders what’s in silence or Maun and conclude mostly with peripheral understanding that not talking or non-utterance is Maun. But in reality Maun is like an ocean which can be fathomed with thousands of birth and rebirths. Maun is an enigma like the cosmic mysticism. Maun can’t be defined as we fail to explain the taste of Milk. Silencing is a manifestive process where one moves from utterance to non-utterance; from sound of silence to the frightening silence; from the darkness to light, then enlightenment and finally experiencing lightlessness where light flashes no more and where darkness ceases to exist and nothing shines but resonance of silence. Beyond Maun there is a space where there is no sound or silence; there sound sounds no more and silence reaches a state where the sound of silence echoes no more

O’ my Ram

Give me Silence
and make me hear the
sound of silence.
O’ My Ram
show me the light
that dawns twilight
of Silence and Sound.
Hey Ram
let me listen
to the echoes of silence
and silent
that sounds
yet the soundlessness
prevails
upon all that sounds.