Understanding Silence
The Truth of Life
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It was a typical Indian sunny morning a week before the Diwali festival. I’d always liked the sun’s rays falling on my body, and my introspection was that the sun plays an important role in the thought processes of all human beings and other living beings.
I was waiting for a catamaran to go to Gateway of India, Mumbai city. A foreigner approached, asking me for some information. As I was answering him, the catamaran arrived, and we both boarded and sat beside each other. It was only a coincidence.
As the catamaran approached deep-sea waters, I was enjoying the depth of the sea. One of my favorite childhood activities was traveling by ship for as many days as possible. I always enjoyed the serenity. The pattern of the sound of the waves crashing against sea beaches fascinated me. And then there was the timing of my visiting beaches and experiencing the silence. Since my childhood, I’d wanted to experience silence, and I had ways of trying to understand it during those days of my youth—and varying ways of trying to understand it in my adulthood.
Have I found out what silence is? The candid answer is no.
Have I benefited by experiencing varied degrees of silence over these years? Yes.
What benefit did I get? The answer is that my thought process changed.
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About the Book
The only and the most important fact about writing this book are to share my views about understanding silence. Understanding silence is truth of life. By understanding varied degrees of silence my thought process changed and it changed for good. We can definitely enrich our lives by proper thought process.
The book is in the form of a dialogue between me and a foreign traveller who visited India. The foreign traveller had told me that he is in search of truth and, therefore, visited India several times.
Philosophy is dull if it is long but it becomes interesting if it is short and, for this reason this book is so short. Even though it is short, I feel it is complete in whatever sense I wanted it. One may not require more than 90 minutes reading this book. It is meant for all and my hope is you will definitely like this book. I expect your sincere comments at understandingsilence@gmail.com.
About the Author
I could with the blessings of The Almighty and my mother could, decode the top secret early in my life, and the secret is: `there cannot be anything more constructive and pleasurable than thinking'. I was definitely a reader but more than a reader I was a thinker all the time. Thinking is my passion and I found it paying all the time under all the circumstances. I am of the firm opinion that with proper thinking, any matter howsoever complicated, will remain unsolved. Understanding of quest through logical reasoning is philosophy according to me. And when the logical reasoning is near perfection then that philosophy becomes immensely useful. Such philosophy becomes inevitable and serves as the basis for thought process. The Vedanta philosophy falls in this category. Progress without organized thought process is impossible and without progress there is no life. What is thought process then? I have tried my level best to find the answer in “Understanding Silence”. I never thought I would write a book one day and become an author. It was a pleasure to write this book. Thanking you for reading this book. Kind Regards, Sudhir Mudholkar