![]() In that silence, realize your true nature. Be silent and find such inner knowledge for yourself. “Thou art that” is one of the important mahavakyas (great sayings) of the Upanishads. But at least during certain periods of the day try to be silent. But of course it’s not possible for us to be silent all the time. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more, designed and sold by independent artists around the world. And ultimately, when you experience the mental mouna, or the mouno mouna, the mind gets strengthened because it does not lose its energy by thinking constantly. High quality Moving In Silence Quotes-inspired gifts and merchandise. So by not talking you save a lot of prana. ![]() Kirlian photography can easily prove how much energy and how much heat we waste or throw out by our talking. There are even ways of photographing the heat waves that go out when we talk, like in Kirlian photography. Talking is one of the major ways that we spend our energy. There are many, many ways of spending our energy, or our prana. At the same time, it saves a lot of energy. ![]() Now, with all these silences, what is the benefit? As I said earlier, the silence of the speech spares you from problems. There is still one more mouna-silence on the more gross, physical level: the bodily silence. When the mind doesn’t go outward it turns inward. It helps you to understand your own mind. For example, when you don’t talk to others there’s no point in sitting in front of somebody, so you begin to turn within. Mouno mouna is silence of mind and it helps you to turn within, to understand, and analyze your own mind. Ultimately, by practicing mouna, you get into a thoughtless state. When a thought comes, you cannot express it or put it into words, so the mind ultimately says, All right, what is the point of my thinking? So, this is one way to reduce your thoughts. The physical silence, or vocal silence, will help mental silence. So the immediate benefit of being silent is that you stay out of trouble. We don’t know how to talk, how much to talk, what to talk about. So, the translation is: “If you are silent, you won’t have quarrels.” That means only by talking do we create more problems. Silence in Sanskrit is “ mouna.” And the proverb goes, “ Mouna kalakanasti.” Kalakam means: problems or quarrels. There is even a saying, “Silence is golden.” In Sanskrit there is a proverb. Those who are interested in making gold should be silent.
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