On the face value of it, earth is just sand and rocks, but dig deep down we explore to find  precious resources like oil, gas, gold and diamonds.  On the face value of it, the ocean has a few life forms but deep down lives many forms of life which man is yet to find out. A look up into a clear night sky reveals thousands of stars but further up are a million stars with a million possibilities which man has not much clue about.

Likewise, on the face value of what we are and what we do in our life time gives a shallow idea of who we are and what we are capable of. Man perceives his capabilities in this life time to the extent of his physical efforts, mental acumen, intellectual knowledge, influence with fellow beings, the power of the position he holds, the reserves of income and wealth that he possesses and probably some of him might value the external factors of fate, luck and godly intervention for his survival and capabilities. All this and relative aspects to these are mere shallow knowledge with which man judges himself. It is as shallow as ‘judging a book by its cover’.

There is more to man than what he mostly knows of himself. All that he knows of himself in the periphery resides in his conscious state of being. Deep down every man is a sub-conscious state of being which knows it all and stands connected to the power of life and existence. In it lives a countless blossoming beyond the comprehension of the conscious state of being. In it resides a precious lot of existential wisdom, an eternity of knowledge, an ecstasy of life, the potential of million possibilities. In short in it resides the past, the present and the future, beyond time and space.

Man with his limited exposure of himself at the conscious self, will never be able to fathom its existence or its state of being. Man to have a glimpse of it and then to live out of it, needs to know the language of silence. Silence is painful for the mind. But it is in silence that man reveals his true self to himself. In silence, things take form, in silence, the secret depths in him reveal the eternal wisdom which can see and hear that which he normally does not see or hear.  It unravels all of him, his perceptions, his past, his connectivity to this design of life and a whole lot of what his present conscious mind does not know. In it lie the bounties of this magic called life. In silence his consicious state expands with his awareness of the sub-conscious and in it lies the power of a thousand elephants, the speed of a million horses, the might of a hundred Mount Everest. In short, in it lies the power of this whole universe. It elevates him into the possibility of what he is capable of achieving in this life time - the possibility of changing this world to a better place to live in. The possibility of creating a billion lives, the possibility of leaving his foot prints in the sands of times.

The power of this sub-conscious self in man is what we all call the spiritual possibilities of our existence.  The spiritual self in man when tapped galvanises human capabilities into divine capabilities. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, elevated to a Mahatma Gandhi for the whole world to look up to and all he had to say was, ‘there is nothing that I did, which the 200 million Indians cannot do, if only they know how to reach into their spiritual self’. There cannot be a better evangelist than that great soul to show us what the power of one’s self can be. To open our lives to a higher reality, to step into a superior pedestal, to spread our wings and to experience the true potential of this human life.
 
So... are we ready to be silent?

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