Silence
Imagine a world without music. Music is the soul of our planet earth. Leaves of trees posses’ music; sea, river, birds, animals all have one or other kind of music.
Silence is eternal but it is difficult to live with it. I am saying difficult and not impossible because many saints have achieved great strength with it. They used to do sadhnas in solitary places and achieved everlasting peace.
But certain people need to be garrulous. Radio jockeys, advocates, politicians and teachers are expected to be talkative, aren’t they? Try to have maun vrata one day, in which you don’t have to speak a single word in a day. Maun vrata applies to both our mind and body. When we don’t speak it doesn’t mean that we really are not speaking. Human brain is quite redundant and keeps producing hundreds of thousands ideas constantly. In maun vrata you need to just observe that idea without indulging in it. I know it is pretty tedious and a bit tough, but not at all impossible.
If possible read a book named ‘The monk who sold his Ferrari’ by Robin Sharma.
I would like to include in it must read category for many reasons. One major reason is it helps learning self-discipline and directing our energy in proper direction.
Silence can be a weapon also. As it has been rightly said that silence speaks more than words do. And politicians use it very well. Sometimes silence is expected to be approval of a person. When something is going wrong we can not afford to be silent. A pen is considered to be more powerful than sword. That is why media is fourth pillar of democracy in India.