THE CONUNDRUM OF SILENCE

It’s been said and acknowledged that silence has several meanings, but for me, silence is a multidimensional reality. Well, that’s some word a techie uses to describe his new AI. I didn’t mean to do that, I just want to tell you that silence has several dimensions and the spectator can only access one or a few of them. One cannot travel in different prospects to observe different angles, it’s because the control lies with the individual possessing silence and the individual decides to what extent his dimensions are to be put on display. Well, I have complicated things a little bit but I’ll get to the point. Silence usually is defined as the absence of sound but I am not talking about that because that’s so easy, there is sound and there is no sound, you don’t need to think about that. There are no possible dimensions to this point. There will be no binary in understanding this technical silence but if the chips drop down to a silent man then there will be the need for literature. I do not intend to imply that people who aren’t connected with the literature of silence are totally out of the game but there is always room to know about anything, even ”The theory of everything” didn’t master everything, because at first it is hypothetical and second it only links together all aspects of the physical universe, leaving behind the metaphysical ones which are more complicated than anything to mankind. People hold doctorates in this advanced literate world but cannot deduce their emotions, they have been having throughout their life. The universe we imagine and dream to explore all of it one day is so vast that we couldn’t just confine the dream into ten lettered word “everything” but somehow the prefix ”theory of” multiplies the power of the word but not to that extent that it would cover much of what we dream. Silence is an ambiguous absence of signs or words or simply the absence of any signs of communication from an individual. If we give a raw look at the word and its possible expression then we would think that the person is sad or in intense anger that he refuses to speak or communicate but that may not be the case every time. It could be deeper than that.

 The speech has done enough damage to the world we know of. The speech has induced love in the two very unmeetable entities and sparked a war between the two who were in the proper peace, but the tale of silence is lost as the meaning of the word implies. What is lost doesn’t mean that it has ceased to exist, it is somewhere meandering in the clouds or the far of terrain when the winds will turn, it will revisit its place and then it will be our responsibility to make a firm grip on it. When we will get a fast hold on the meaning of the word we could further look into its anatomy. For instance, let us all assume that we all have a very firm grip on the word silence and then inspect the possibilities of its presence and what does it imply or what does it intend to display. In the beginning, I have said about the dimensions of the silence so let’s first stick our nose into that and smell how silence appears. The dimensions of silence depict the presence of the intention which are to be conveyed by the person or are to be withheld inside his deep introvert ocean of thoughts. An individual who is the epitome of silence might be not communicating because his terms are not met, he didn’t want to invest his energy in the vibe because he thinks that it would incur him unnecessary losses. The assessment might be based on unlikable situations he is facing or the evaluation of the result obtained in the previous attempts made to communicate in alike situation. The other aspects include the despair which might have enslaved the speech of the person. Despair would have been made the person forced to be chained under silence by their conscience. Anger which rarely inflicts silence but when it does it means that the person is elevated consciously or the person is creating a reservoir of anger inside him. In most cases, the latter one happens but if the former happens it tells much about the person. It depicts that the person is not flown by the winds but has its own set of beliefs and values. He depicts extreme intellectuality by showing silence in anger. To identify which is the root cause behind the silence there is a technology yet to be discovered. Silence often is a tool of sages and Sufis. We are often told that the sages and the Sufis lead their life away and alone but the question is for what? They know that silence is somewhere linked with peace and contentment. Physical silence triggers the internal vibration which is known to be heavenly and the affinity helps them attain peace. This silence of which I mentioned right now is very different from the one which just means the absence of sound or communication. It represents much more the inner side of a person than the visible outer reactions. Silence is a mystery when it is possessed by someone of greater rank. I do not wish to imply that the silence of a commoner is just easily interpretable and accessible and to see the extremities of the silence we need to find a sage or a Sufi. The intention behind mentioning them is to bring up an ideal example in front of you to understand the Conundrum of silence. It's been said and heard several times that the person with an ocean of knowledge is calm in speaking, he avoids all hurries to rush and choose silence. It is true in the case of the greatest listeners. To rejuvenate their insights and to gain potential knowledge one needs the tool of silence. It is not possible without this tool that anything significant could be achieved. The silence is a tool for the recipient of the knowledge and the propagator who imparts sense to their disciples. If we look closely, we will sense this as a boon, but the handling of silence needs to be carefully done by the individual. The silence, when required, should be put on a play but when required to break, one must proceed with full confidence. Silence isn’t something that could be ever put in some kind of binary but it should be used extensively where required and withdrawn and retreated accordingly. If we observe keenly silence is a puzzle but if we overlook, it’s just silence.