Blissful Silence Is The Ultimate Result of Spiritual Knowledge
Here’s what that means.
The Principle: You Are Consciousness
Underneath the veil of why we verbally think we do things, there is the intuition of our actual doing them. Therefore, to open one’s eyes to intuition, or to become one with the universe or God, one’s mind must be silent.
Think about a lake, tossed about by the wind. Its surface will be full of waves; mud will be disturbed and cloud the water. But if the wind becomes still, the lake becomes still, and the mud settles. The water is left to clear, and it’s easier to see what’s at the bottom.
It is similarly so with the spirit. Our mind is the water, boiling and churning with thoughts that obscure the center source of the mind — the Self, or the feeling of “I AM.” Consciousness.
The Journey: Getting To Know Consciousness
Usual knowledge is of-the-world. But why know the world unless you first know your purpose in it? Knowledge of Self is what makes worldly knowledge useful. Without self-knowledge, worldly-knowledge just causes anxiety, because you “know you could” or “know you have to” do so much, and you hate it.