Why There Can Silence Be Answerless? Why?

The question, ‘why? can become infinitely regressive because for any answer you can again ask ‘why?’. In this context, an ancient rishi said, “Anuttarobhava” - “become answerless”. Every answer only pushes the question a little further for every answer brings forth further questions. There is no end to a question-answer session. It can go on forever! So, it was said, “Anuttarobhava”- ‘go beyond questions…and be answerless’ for, your Being has the solution to all questions. ‘Turn every question to wonder. A question creates violence and wonder creates silence! A question is looking for an answer, while wonder is a question that is not looking for an answer.’ ‘A question mark is bent; it is misery, it is violence. Straighten the bend and it becomes …show more content…
In a world of noise that borders on cacophony-full of honking vehicles, cries of vendors, bhajans and kirtans blaring from loudspeakers, constant announcements at railway stations and shopping malls - silence holds its own. It can convey emotion, anger or distance and help avoid conflict. Because it is so complex and ambiguous, yet effective, it has earned for itself the adage, ‘silence is golden’. This observance of silence as a spiritual practice is called ‘Mauna’ in Sanskrit. The aim or goal of Mauna may be to quieten the mind and prepare it for deeper introspection and for the magic of meditation to …show more content…
Is there a contradiction in prescribing the practice of Mauna? A very precise answer to such questions is an emphatic “No”. The thesis probes into the significance of Mauna in Yoga. Obviously, it does not envisage coming to a conclusion that Mauna is the goal of yoga. In which case, there may be a contradiction. Mauna and its practice is very significant in yoga. In fact, in any inward going process, in any meditative process, in any spiritual progress silence is extremely essential.
Mauna is an instrument in yoga, not a goal of Yoga! One who attains to the state of Samadhi need not be Mauna all the time. The thesis attempts to bring out the significance and place of Mauna in yoga and how using mauna one can go higher in yogic practices. By keeping Mauna thus one can follow the moderate path. By over-talking one is over-indulging. By keeping complete enforced Mauna one is suppressing. Mauna is an instrument for one to follow the middle path of talking only what is necessary.
This thesis does not aim to prescribe Mauna as all throughout life. Mauna is only an instrument which enables the yogi to control speech and mind, conserve energy and rise higher in the