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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
not impressed by the performance. When one is deluded, one is constantly either identifying with thought, the one about thinking and the other what the thoughts are about. All of this is taking place in the mind, and it is all gone in one second of no- thought condition. This silence of which we all know can be called by different names. We can call it being, we can call it liberation, we can call it awareness, and we can call it the source from which all perception arises. Nevertheless, silence is a good indication, as far as words go, because it offers nothing to reflect the idea of ego, nothing with which to identify our ―self‖.
Many sadhakas have been asking about the nature of the ultimate and nothingness. This is essentially a game they try to play within themselves in order to maintain the ego which is created by the mind and then evaluate a "concept of" silence. The very evaluation of silence is funny; we know it is not a form, so it cannot be measured. Further to evaluate or measure we do not have any measuring instrument. Even then, to what use to which we
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