Silence is the fundamental note of nature. It is the sublime sign of the supreme spirit who sustains the functioning of the universe created by him. Silence is eloquent in its own way, conveying many feelings that speech and sound cannot. In some instances, it unleashes dormant forces of living beings. Silence is the underlying power of human beings that makes them more alive to existential realities and more responsive to their duties in pursuit of their goals.
The power of silence is most discernible when you are far from the madding crowd—into the bucolic expanses, the expanse of the ocean or the great heights of the Himalayas. Your mind with its fleeting thoughts tends to slow down, your intellect functions better, thereby refining your thinking process and improving your decision-making capability. When you are reading, silent surroundings enable you to understand and absorb better. Silence aids in your focus and concentration. So it is with writing.
Truly, the power of silence unfolds the inner treasures of our conscious mind, the subconscious and the intellect. It gives us a better understanding of our own self and our surroundings, our relationship with other living beings and also with the supreme creator, God.
The vast Universe with its incomprehensible size consists of millions of stars like our sun and planetary systems like ours. These planets, many of which hold life rotate and revolve around their respective suns. Our earth is moving forward continuously in space at the speed of about 30 km/second, zooming in a circular spin motion at a speed of approximately 0.46 km/sec. Are we aware of it? Does the huge earth make any audible sound while moving at such high speeds? Silence is the watchword for stability, equilibrium and harmony. The great forces of nature are perfectly balanced by the creator in a miraculous system of motion. The power of silence holds everything in a dynamic equilibrium.
The building block of matter—the atom—is made of electrons, protons, neutrons and positrons. Three particles form the nucleus, around which electrons continuously revolve. There are billions and billions of such atoms in all elemental matter. But there is no audible sound of the movements of electrons. Silence is the stabilising system of the material world.
The universal spirit god who is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient controls and regulates the Universe, silently. The crash of the waves on the coast, thunder in the sky and the gentle meandering sound of the river are all expressions of the material world. But the supreme regulating power which operates behind these phenomena is entirely spiritual in nature and works silently. Silence is the mode of that supernatural entity.
In human life, meditation is a very potent instrument of inner awakening. Prayer and obeisance to the creator is best done in the silent mode. Only silent contemplation enables our inner faculties to experience divinity who is the embodiment of bliss. Silence is associated with peace and harmony.
Therefore, silence also denotes stability. Temporary climactic disturbances all ultimately settle into long spells of silent stability. Wars and strife disturb peace, only to establish longer and more lasting spells of harmony later.
Silence is the expression of divine power and has to be understood as the mode of spiritual action which is harmonising and stabilising. The power of silence is the power of soul and the power of the super soul, which is God.