Words Part 1 & 2 By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Words Part 1
When we realise the futility of words, then we should know that our life is going deeper.

We live in words from morning to night. Everything should make sense to us. Everything should be purposeful. In this run for searching for purpose and purposefulness, we lose the purpose. It is like the carrot and the rabbit. It is right there, still it is not there. It goes to such an extent that we don’t even have a sound sleep. Even at night we are bothered by words. Many people speak while sleeping. There does not seem to be a rest from words.

Words are the root cause of worries. You can’t have a worry without words, can you? Now, worry ten minutes, but don’t use a single word. You cannot! We get caught up in words. Our friendship is based on words. Someone say’s “Oh, you are so wonderful, you are so beautiful, you are so kind hearted; I have never seen a person like you in my life. I have been looking for a person like you all my life.You fall in love suddenly. And when someone hurls some abuses on us, we are over shadowed. But those are just words.

Life is very shallow if we base it on words. Anything that is very profound in life, deep or meaningful, cannot be expressed in words. The experience of love, or true gratitude, cannot be expressed in words. Real beauty, true friendship has no words.

To be continued…

Words Part 2
The finer the levels of consciousness, the more stress free the consciousness, the more sensitive you are to the sound. We have become almost insensitive to noise, to sound, to words.

Words are very shallow. The day we realise words are incompetent, we have gained some depth in life. We are going deeper into the existence. What do you want from your friends? Their words, their saying nice things to you or just their presence? We don’t know, because we have never thought what we want from our friends! “Company”, we say. You know, you can be with friends and not say a word and get the ecstasy. Both of you, or all of you, can get into ecstasy. Such a joy just being in silence! You can understand each other perfectly well, being in silence.
Your presence speaks what you are. A great philosopher may give you discourses on love, but you would not feel that. It could be mind blowing for a while, but something does not happen inside, something does not get kindled. If you are just there being in love, it catches on to everyone.

“The purpose of words is to create silence and silence increases the power in your words”. Jai Gurudev.

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