“Silence is pure, silence is holy, it draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other are silent”.

These lines left me tantalising. They’ve got some deep meaning. But not that easy to explain or interpret. Often we connect keeping quiet with the awkwardness of the situation. Recently a friend of mine got exasperated because of the silence that I kept, at that very point of time I realised that this relationship is not in a consolation with our understanding. I don’t remember the last time I went out with someone and kept quiet for a long while. This seven lettered word with a simple meaning conveys the idea that may be a thousand word article can’t express. Silence is somewhere connected to contentment, solitude and relaxation. Ever wondered why we pay tribute to the mighty dead by observing silence for a few minutes? there’s a strong logic behind. Most of your emotions and feelings are unspoken, each and everything can’t be expressed in words, at that time the quietness speaks for you. When the soul and mind are quiet you are able to think and understand what you are really feeling and very logically clarify the reason for your undergoing such an emotional rush.

I remember when I was a kid and whenever I went through some agitation and turbulence, that left me restless, I simply used to go to my mom and sit next to her for an hour or so without uttering a word, how much relaxed I felt I can’t describe. Not ignoring the fact that everything can’t be shared with your parents for they would get troubled by your stupidity, in such a fussy situation silence worked its way out and always provided me with a solution.

I read a quote somewhere that its easier to still the mind but the whole game lies in quietening up the soul. Sitting quite with oneself and being in a relaxed state of mind is also a big challenge. The very silence becomes deafening as your mind bags up with thousands of dilemmatic thoughts making you crazy. What does that really means? You are not comfortable with yourself ?! how is it possible?! It’s difficult to digest this fact but its true “sometimes it becomes difficult for you to be with you”, that’s why you start feeling that you are dying out of loneliness and you certainly fail to realize that there is the person already with you who is always with you – “you”. Quiet shocking right? you search for a company every now and then not because you are afraid of being alone or that loneliness will consume you, the reality is that you are afraid to be with you, you never want to enjoy that solitude that only you can give to yourself and that you keep on finding it in the external space.

Silence speaks for itself, I always wonder how I and my roommate stay together quite for such a long time, sometimes we don’t speak to each other the whole day, even after staying in the same room. There’s nothing negative about it, it’s just that we are comfortable with our silence, words don’t need to stay up to define our relationship.

Silence is a kind of topic, in which even after I research the rest of my life, I wouldn’t be able to define it completely. The yogis and gurus connect silence to soulfulness, understanding and acceptance. When your mind is silent you actually accept everything and you don’t tend to criticise things unnecessarily. Thinking rational is good but criticising something just because you don’t like it or just because you are not good at it is wrong. You just satisfy your ego and pacify the agony of the painful fact that you are unable to step out of your comfort zone. Staying alone with yourself is in itself the biggest challenge to come out of the comfort zone.

Relationship of love can be defined with silence. If you are able to sit with your partner completely indulged in him or her enjoying just his or her presence not expecting him or her to speak anything because your words to describe that feeling is not enough, you let the silence vanquish above all. That love can be defined as the real love or pure love I must say. The understanding between you two is so profound and intense that you get satisfied by the very manifestation.

So it’s the time to sit all by yourself and brood a little bit, for a part-time soul searching activity because to know the real you the silence must prevail. Let the quietness overpower you this time and feel the tranquillity, you’ll realise how every now and then the fairy comes to your wishes and bless you with her powerful magical hands. The very realisation of this will uplift you and you’ll be high without any drug.