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perfectly, that is the problem. This problem of the aspirant even Master found it difficult to solve.
The entire problem is our attachment to form. We imperience Silence but Silence is not a form. The mind takes Silence and starts converting it into an object and also starts evaluating it. Now we are not being silent, we started moving in our ideas about Silence. We then have our theories of Silence and while we know nothing of it we think we know. This inquiry is not into silence, it is into what we "think about" silence. When this is the case we have missed and are lost in the mind. And this lapse into mind from Silence is the product of our unverified notions and beliefs.
When we are fed with milk by the Master our mind gets obsessed with all this new imperience of the silence. In fact the Silence has been with us from the beginning it is we who were not noticing it because of our fixations on how spiritual events should be and trying to find meaning for Silence in the language that we know. This is where the mind plays all its jokes and we remain away from the
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