Senses are Sound of Detractor

Dr Gautam Chatterjee


What we hear, what we see, what we feel are through our mortal sensory organs. These are prism of experiencing life. Apart from hearing, the vision, body sensation and experiencing cohesion do have their individual audible and mostly inaudible sound. Even the taste of the tongue and smell do have element of sound. These sensory functions create noise and that detract the mind and attachment anchors one to mortal mundaneness as pleasure seeking intensifies with time haunted with the desire of “More and More”. This noise level detracts the spiritual contemplation. In Maun Sadhana, we tend to move out of overshadowing mortal craving to something beyond our body. In this process the sensory craving stalls the process of introspection. Because at thought level these create emotive imbalances which defocus the mind as there are loud noises at the silent level. Thus while internalizing one has to shun the sounds that create problems. In Maun Sadhana one borrows hordes of silence from within and play upon the mind to silence the sound of cravings. Extinguishing the fire of sensory organs is possible only with intensive Ram Naam Jaap and by fixing the mind on Param Guru with remembrance of Guru Vachan.