Observing Silence.

Importance of Observing Silence.

“Mahatma Gandhi during his lifetime, observed Monday

as the day of  silence.  He spoke nothing at all

for one day and observed silence.  He believed that keeping

himself silent was a way to bring order to the Mind.”

If circumstances required the Mahatma to convey something, he would

write it on a piece of paper. 

No talking for 24 hours is a hard job

One must have an iron will and steel determination to observe silence.

No talking is harder for regular people who are talkative. 

People are seen talking about anything and everything,

including baseball, basketball, cricket, music, movies, politics

and anything under the sky.

In reality, if one has to shut up for five minutes, it is difficult, if

not impossible. One feels the top of the head about to explode. 

People keep talking for the sake of talking so that their presence may be felt. 

One feels by talking he is in charge of the situation.  It is sort of behaving

like a police officer out in the middle of the traffic.

After passing a full day of silence, your mind will enable you to

speak the right words.  Your small words uttered in a routine way will

sound to others as a Command. Every word you speak counts.

Choose power words.

Singing is not talking.

We can sing together.

We can not talk together.

Silence is golden.

Silence is eloquent.

Too much of talking drives other people crazy. 

Do we call ourselves civilized?

We project ourselves as a miserable aimless directionless mob.

When we are together in a procession, we do not have to shout, wave,

yell and hoot at friends who are passer-by.

At a meeting we do not have to whisper and giggle and point out and wave

and laugh at our silly jokes.

And when we are together at the lunch table, it is not free-for-all

festival  to blab.  Lunch is a time to sit and be quiet and eat.