Dr Gautam Chatterjee
Smell has its own sound and silence. Do you buy this idea? Think further! Aroma of sumptuous food awakens our appetite and mind hears its sound amidst silence of thought. Aroma of flower brings about melody of thought and inhaling it one “feels good”. Aroma of incense stick, guggul etc. rent the air as spiritualism comes to the fore. Thus smell can create a lot of sound and melody. Even at times it echoes as sound of silence.
During Maun Sadhana smell has a great role to play. Soothing and pious aroma invokes an inner tranquility. During Maun Sadhana one should not try to smell anything that enrages sense organ or brings about a craving be of the material things or food. Smell sounds very loud and it detracts our mind from our mission because aroma and its presence are larger than the life if we try to analyze. Yet we all know the journey of the mortal body passes through varied kind of smell which is unavoidable be it good or bad.
Thus during Maun Sadhana one must try to create a “lesser noisy” aroma within the smelling vicinity. Maun introspection ensures lesser attachment of all kind and aroma stands prominent. All the creation of Panchabhuta has its own smell and if we journey through natural aroma of dew, grass, tree and rain etc. it help us to reduce the noise element of what we generally smell. Our innerself is like the lotus, which is sublime but has no aroma of flower kind yet, it possesses most beautiful inner smell though aroma-less but immensely tranquil augmenting our antarmukhi yatra or inner sublime journey.
Smell has its own sound and silence. Do you buy this idea? Think further! Aroma of sumptuous food awakens our appetite and mind hears its sound amidst silence of thought. Aroma of flower brings about melody of thought and inhaling it one “feels good”. Aroma of incense stick, guggul etc. rent the air as spiritualism comes to the fore. Thus smell can create a lot of sound and melody. Even at times it echoes as sound of silence.
During Maun Sadhana smell has a great role to play. Soothing and pious aroma invokes an inner tranquility. During Maun Sadhana one should not try to smell anything that enrages sense organ or brings about a craving be of the material things or food. Smell sounds very loud and it detracts our mind from our mission because aroma and its presence are larger than the life if we try to analyze. Yet we all know the journey of the mortal body passes through varied kind of smell which is unavoidable be it good or bad.
Thus during Maun Sadhana one must try to create a “lesser noisy” aroma within the smelling vicinity. Maun introspection ensures lesser attachment of all kind and aroma stands prominent. All the creation of Panchabhuta has its own smell and if we journey through natural aroma of dew, grass, tree and rain etc. it help us to reduce the noise element of what we generally smell. Our innerself is like the lotus, which is sublime but has no aroma of flower kind yet, it possesses most beautiful inner smell though aroma-less but immensely tranquil augmenting our antarmukhi yatra or inner sublime journey.
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