Tyrone asks:

Could you please tell me about stillness and silence and how these relate to the Self?

Stillness is first it can be called The Self before it has acted... previous to acting, The Self is in itself which is infinite stillness...

For example when a man acts there is action happening (the man says i am doing such and such) but the self he saw as himself, previous to acting became still then the acting occurred, he says i am now doing the action, so that non-acting self has now disappeared and become the self involved in the action. (This self is the Jiva only.)

It is the same with the Real Self, in himself he is stillness itself.... when he acts stillness disappears and being appears.. which is the Cosmic manifestation of all that he is i.e. everything that was invisible before he acted...

The difference between the man and the Real Self is the fact that when a man is in himself he thinks he is something other than infinite stillness; so that when that thing he thinks he is, acts or does this or that, he says i (referring to what he thinks he is) do it....

But with the Real Self, that Self who was still, now knows he is not still also, though he also knows he is still at the same time.

This means he knows he is what is moving in the stillness of himself; he knows that even though he appears to move he is not moving at all... because how can anything move in infinity? Where would it go? What would move? Where would action occur? Of what would the action, the active and the act be composed?

That Self who was not acting is now not still.... in his own stillness.

An old Buddhist koan goes:
What is the sound of one-hand clapping?

Silence is stillness because sounds are really waves which oscillate (move or vibrate) in stillness, so there is an oscillation between stillness and movement this causes sound.

The great OM is born here. The OM is the sound of the spanda shakti. But it is silent.

The great silence is the stillness impregnated with waiting, or tension caused by absence; it is a stasis of emptiness which is utter moment.. because of the potential to be.

This is what i like to call tangential-exigence, you can think of it as a dynamic-tension which is multi-dimensional in direction and angle of escape from the stillness.. such that it could be thought of as an orb of imploding atomic being... This is also called bindu or point of light, spiritual atom, shiva-lingham and so on.

For example: to visualize it, picture a block, or ball, or orb of solid rock in infinite space, this is like seeing stillness in a symbolic form (rockness permanence etc, but we know rocks are atoms which are in flux) so there is a permanency of atomic flux, and stillness which is infinity itself.... which does not oscillate in reality but there is the tension which is due to the absence of anything... however this is full to the brim of emptiness....

Imagine; there was stillness and emptiness before the Universe began.. all directions were identical; nothing showed difference, any moving was not moving.... this stillness
is still accessible far behind the matter of which your body or any body or particle is composed, (because in the heart of the atom there is space or stillness). This same applies to the matter of the entire Cosmos.. I am telling you this stillness is the source of consciousness.

However a man sits in his body and says: "I am the visible self" - "That is ME" he is wrong because to think, something must look at the thoughts as they appear in what he calls inside himself... that looker is not only in him it exists in all beings... it is formlessness, silence, and stillness... the whole Universe is inside it... So then he who looks out of that place from within it, is existing beyond time in the stillness and silence which is the source of actual Being itself.

It has been said that The Self dwells within all... or God dwells within you as you.. and so forth.. this is a very misleading way to say it... why? because there is no such being as you.... there is no inside and no outside ... there is only infinite being which is all that exists ... and of which all that exists is composed... there is no second and no others at all. Man looks inside HIMSELF for me.. while he is in ME. I am that Infinite One who is the all-in-all. OM

The emptiness appears as the knowledge which is called ignorance (objective knowledge or all of relativity) while in reality the stillness is not moving at all..... because what moves, moves in itself... again how can anything move in infinity?

Lets look at the nature of the concept of relativity... it implies something is relative to something else, so this means if there is no relative particle such as would exist in infinity then there is no relativity at all. nothing could be said to move because particle physics takes a dive into oblivion......

So then, in The Self of The Self, nothing moves .... this is stillness.... and silence....

Yet Jiva looks out of the man at the world, and he looks into himself for the truth.. but he must find that the actual infinite consciousness looks into space thru the consciousness which enlivens that mans being. Jiva is like a shadow cast accross the face of truth.


Inside himself a man can go so deep that he merges into an absolute consciousness that does not see anything like his body as itself. The man can come to understand that the consciousness which exists as actual infinity, does not see atomic reality in the same way as a man might.. that infinite being sees it all inside his own infinite being  as atomic vibration or flux. (as the spanda-Shakti).. so there are no objects, no forms, no limit at the edge of a thing due to matter extending into the space beyond the object; as the matter of the air etc is also connected.. and so on up to Siva himself... So he sees everything as the vibrating shakti or tension inherent in infinity.

This is found thru and deep beyond the man.... now then he who gets this far locates himself not as a being at all, or as any object or form, he locates himself as the actual infinity which is looking out of infinity at the outside of the Cosmos as if it were the outside of an egg. "That" looks at the light of the big bang/ genesis of the Universe as it explodes out of infinity due to the existence of the infinite stasis of the emptiness, "That" sees all stars in the huge massive light-blast beyond the comprehension of mind
and is aware of the birth of awareness as being arises in the Cosmos.

The mind is born there, and "That" looks thru it like thru a window, to notice everything in itself using the senses of all beings and species everywhere. "That" does not look as a man looks at all, it is not located in this Universe It is not conscious in the way a man or being is conscious. There is no inside or outside it is beyond all opposites..

You could say the Cosmos is its brain if you like.... the beings are the cells of that brain there are no beings in it at all.... he is all of them, and all that is seen or existent.. Yet he is far more than this ....

Every speck of thought and consciousness arises in him.. in the infinite and appears in the countless minds from inside the atomic particles of matter.... yet we know matter is everywhere....... as is light... So then "That" is Infinite light. nothing appears from outside "THAT".

When a man meditates he looks inward so far until the consciousness in him goes deeper than the atom, here he finds the absolute infinite beyond all form and existence
it is "NOT IN THE MAN OR JIVA" it is at the very foundation of the matter of which all is made. "THAT LOOKS OUT OF THAT PLACE THROUGH THE WINDOW OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

It is entirely possible to realize this and hold the WILL there in the heart ... in dvadashanta. To hold the Will in the infinite... Imagine the rock as above... and always stay there, this will bring about an amazing transformation of the consciousness which dwells in the being... it will release that consciousness from the bounds of matter itself. Then the man will not know who he is anymore. He will become something incredible looking out of the infinite thru the mans being.

This is peace, stillness, and silence.