Hearing by the Innerself

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

Maun Sadhana is all about hearing the eternal mind. This is possible when one turns the mind away from external sound and noise of thought process. Culturing the listening technique comes from a receptive empty mind which is very eager to learn and more than ready to unlearn. Inner self when revealed gives one huge scope of exploring the self. But one should be aware that at times pretension of unreal for a long time becomes a belief which is an illusion of mortal kind. To keep these illusions away from the mind one must culture the innerself. The USP of innerself is innocence. This inner innocence assures the dawning of dynamic within once we accept it on face value. This state of innocence is accessible by our mortal innocence which must not have loud load of guilt or any other form of unholy attitude. Thus it means to unlock the inner self one has to improve the Karmic pattern. Swamiji Maharaj has thus given highest importance to the character of the Sadhak because if one is not pure in thought and action then the inner purity will elude. In Maun Sadhana when body and mind is engulfed with Ishta Chintan then one becomes ready vessel which in course would collect the inner wisdom by hearing the voice of Param Guru within. It is the destiny of the Sadhak and so all kind of noises are to be eliminated from the mind before one starts hearing the eternal self from within.

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.

Noise of Depression and Deprivation

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

Our mortal life is full of chaos. It basically propels from failure and de-recognition to the state of depression where our behavior pattern starts malfunctioning. Depression bears the Karmic suffering as frustration and anger take the front seat. At the other level deprivation is too noisy and disturbs our Karma. Maun Sadhana can heal these ailing factors. While exploring silence within one encounters scores of sound of mortal kind. The shift from mortal inequality to the eternity is possible when we realize Guru is God sent blessing and bliss for us. And it’s Guru Vachan that can help us for safe negotiation in life. When we place Guru as a perfect icon before our third eye then we find mortal noise of deprivation and depression fading away. Thereafter come the realization that it is Param Guru who stands behind the Guru as eternal aura which is ever manifesting within. This state of Maun Sadhana allows us to realize our destiny and we don’t fall for small cravings. When we realize that Param Guru is our Niyati or Destiny and who is not part of Karma the destiny of final kind, then worldly pain and pathos get reduced. Thus sound of frustration deprivation and depression are just symptoms of earthly life which is the result of our own created Karma of over indulgence in materialism. Now through Maun Sadhana we limit our endeavour to our duties only with no expectations, which in course allows us to travel to the higher plane of silence where Param Guru resides. This assures eternal tranquility and blissful healing of the self.

Melody of Love is Silence

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

Eternity floats on the water of Bhakti-Bhava. Eternal love is the sacred lotus which promises to demystify cosmic wisdom of immortal love. In Maun Sadhana when one journeys within one finds the element of love. Love for Guru and trustful love for Guru vachan fashions the eternity of Param Guru who is the epitome of love. Within the fabric of deep silence of the mind the sound of love exists. This element of love does pass through earthly passion, yet it scales beyond the mortal concept. Prem Bhava that emits from within while negotiating the inner journey helps us mending our mortal behavioural pattern. Thus in Maun Sadhana one keeps on discovering various hues of love. These “discovered” elements assure discipline the self. It can easily cap negations of the mind and empattern overhauling of our behavioural pattern. Love of silence reflects on our mortal attitude and makes us realize that love is basically and finally “Selfless”. When we realize that love is divine and eternal and not entirely worldly passion then we can discipline our daily life and banish the evils of envy, jealousy and enmity. In Maun Sadhana the final goal is love and selfless love for Param Guru. Thus love at the realizing level ensures delinking self from aberrations and allow piousness to prevail. This element of love in silence sounds great as we are elevated at the karmic level.

Rough Sounds of Jealousy and Envy

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

This world is unequal. Thus gap at socio-economic psychological intellectual and spiritual level is very much there as universal truth. Pain, suffering, marginalization or dominance give rise to rivalry and take the shape of envy and jealousy. These behaviour patterns are normal and most people suffer from this from top of the society to the lowest of the low. These bring us to the chaotic sound level and our inner tranquility gets destroyed. We get bogged down to the whirlpool of earthly life undermining the final spiritual goal destined by Param Guru.

Maun Sadhana helps us to alter the perspective which always keeps us unsettled. Through silence we realize that mortal and materialistic life is transitional and all given situations are just temporary phase of life for the journey of the soul which passes through several births of silence and sound. Situation of yesterday is not there today so the situation of today will not be there the day after as Kabir said “Aisa din aur nahi rahega”. Now we realize that disparities create rough sound and make us envious. So through tooling silence we reach the final frontiers of innerself where only one emotion called “love” prevails and that assures inner tranquility and outer silence combined with Maun Sadhana help us to mend our perception while journeying towards our goal of being Gurumukhi and Antarmukhi.

Anger and Violence Unseat Silence

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

Anger within and without violent emotive stream of thought create very loud sound that reaches chaotic level within minutes as we reflect anything with dejection. The body and mind become charged with noise so it reflect outwardly as well. These noise frequencies spoil the tranquility of dynamic kind. Behavior, words and expressions become aggressive and inner-self get fragmented.

Silencing this anger come from meditative mindset. In this process we must not be victims of contrasts and disharmony because anger comes to the fore when we cross our swords with a touch of intolerance and lack of restraint. Again, anger peeps when we want to over demonstrate our prominence, power and strength and thoughts become superior and subordinate to none. Anger postures violence when our inner un-tranquil state of mind boils out of deprivation, frustration and even non-recognition.

To combat this situation we should be cool receptor of things around and we should not react in a hurry. Tolerance and patience ensures growth of silence that can banish the loud noise of anger and violence because anger spoils Karma resulting in rise of guilt which spoil our future as well.

In Maun Sadhana this art of “internalizing and analysing” comes at play involuntarily. When we desist from utterance then we invite no tension from social inequality as it is said “dumb” has no enemy. Silence begets patience and increases the power of tolerance. Maun Sadhana allows us a realization that the world is not equal and inequalities are the natural rule of the world. Thus taking mind away from disharmony of the world towards inner harmonious self help us in handling anger and mending our “response system” which works towards silencing the noisy temperaments.

Relationship and Maun

Dr Gautam Chatterjee

Life is mystified with relationship as some of them are related through birth and some are beyond. Every relation creates a compartment of thought and knitted with duties and rights. These thoughts are like the sound in the silent zones of mind. Keeping the relation in good humour is the balancing act in which all indulges. And most of us live for it and consume our whole energy to handle these varied relations. In the Maun Sadhana these relations are valued in positive note and to be contemplated for their well being through prayers. But the complexity of relationship should be kept at bay while doing Maun Sadhana. Thus it is pertinent to realize that any given relationship has many subtle nuances and shades. Again if these are not handled from a psychical distance these complexities become a baggage at the thought level that hinders the process of our inner traverse. All relations, no matter how close you think, should be respected and loved. But the self persona must not get attached too deep as at the end of the day you are unable to salvage yourself from the entanglement of relationship for your own spiritual contemplations.

Thus in Maun Sadhana, we should have the flair for love for all the relations but this is not the time to celebrate or brood over them because those thoughts become noise at the mind plane. While silencing the inner mind all kind of emotive frequencies must be either in harmonious tone or be limited to its entity and be kept aside while delving deep within. One should keep in mind that reflections of relationship should not cast its shadow over the self-introspection as love, hate and demand arising out of any given relation stall our progress. During Maun Sadhana mind must be clear and only focused towards Param Guru within and nothing else.