Eternity Game:Silence

The Eternity Game

The Great Meditations

“A step, and all is sky and God.”    (Collected Poems, p.542)</ref>

Here we come to the last series of cards in the Eternity Game, and we have to remember that they can be approached by the mind of man even less than the other powers of our play. Only a deep meditation leading to an inner becoming can liberate us from the clutches of a superficial mechanical thought process and its rational logic. We have to get rid of our heaviness if we want to climb those last summits of being with their beauty and powers. Wonder will become intimacy before all the secrets can dissolve in their paradox and all movements come to rest in the eternal play of a god-child.

“There is the mystic realm whence leaps the power

Whose fire burns in the eyes of seer and sage”      (Savitri, p.627)

SILENCE

The truth which man seeks abides in the quiet wordless spaces of a luminous silence. It does not descend into the noisy chambers of mechanical thought or into the quacking wordy debates of the mind.

Thinking is not for the purpose of finding truth, but for giving expression to truth already found. Thought is not a bridge to reach truth, but should be an arrow coming out of the light. The physical and vital, nervous and desire bodies as well as the mind's mechanical either/or processes must be kept quiet if we would follow the great mystics and yogis into the peace and silence beyond understanding.

Once we have tasted the

enchantment

that silence can bring, we will become able to contemplate the

mystery

of the universe. Just as music is possible only against a background of silence, so all poetry, all thoughts and all words acquire transforming power only by coming out of the silence.

And we don't have to do anything! Just be quiet, live in the

quietness.

And look: The curtains will rise on mystery after mystery, world behind world.