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OASIS
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Silence and relaxation
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By Swami Sukhabodhananda
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There was a big and lovely lake. Green grass adorned its embankment like a garland. There was a beautiful temple and all around were coconut trees.
The morning sun appeared to be smiling from behind the clouds. There was silence all around.
The mystery of silence engaged me in an inner dialogue — with peace and clarity. Can silence be cultivated? Is there not a hidden harmony in silence? But for silence, everything seems to be meaningless noise.
There is poetry in silence that can really sustain us. It is only in silence that we get close to the centre of the universe.
Only a mind that is silent is sacred. It is this mind that can discover truth.
Some of us think. Many of us think that we think. Most of us never think of thinking. We live our lives clouded by certain myths and are not guided by clarity in thought.
When you enter a dark room, you might collide with a chair and get hurt. Showering your anger on the chair is meaningless. Darkness is the problem.
Tension comes from darkness — the inner darkness of ignorance. Darkness exists in our thought processes that make us constantly compare or compete. Let us see how.
Reflect on this incident.
A classmate of mine from my school days attended one of my lectures on stress management. After the lecture, he expressed happiness on meeting me, but complained that he was feeling depressed.
I asked him for the reasons.
“You are such a good speaker and look at me — I feel too shy to ask you a question. I feel miserable,” he said. Seated next to him were his beautiful wife and his two wonderful kids. He was tall, handsome, and very rich.
I also learned from a friend of his that he had a marvellous house and owned a Mercedes Benz. As you would see, his tension came from unnecessary comparisons.
Each one of us is unique. If we realise this uniqueness, our lives would not be filled with tension. What we need is a clear understanding and acceptance of our uniqueness. There are tall trees and small trees. The moon stays high in the sky, while grass grows low on earth.
We accept these differences in nature without ever questioning. We should learn to accept the existence of such differences in life as well. If you do this, your tension will disappear.
The other reason for tension is unnecessary competition. In a rat race, even if you win, you continue to be a rat. Do not lose yourself in a rat race of competition.
One must needs relax instead. To relax is to love life. Life includes death. Accept life and death. Dance with life and death will come dancing. Do not postpone living life. Do not get lost in preparing to live.
Dance every moment and don’t get lost in waiting to be happy. In such a space you will not be a beggar but a giver.
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