Listen to God’s Voice
in the Language
of Silence
God speaks in silence, but we want to listen to Him in the language of noise! How, then, can we at all listen to God’s voice? One who deeply ponders the signs in the universe will be struck by the silence there. He will be left dumbstruck.
If you are in a room, you can measure the length and breadth of its ceiling. However, if you are in a big field, under the open sky, all your criteria for measuring things fail to gauge the length and breadth of the sky.
The same holds for the rest of the universe. A tiny seed gradually grows into a tree, a world in itself. Who can narrate how this happens? The light that the sun pours out, the circulation of the winds, the songs of the birds, the gurgling of the brooks, and innumerable similar things—we see them with our eyes, but it is impossible to express them in words.
Truth is more delicate than that which can be expressed in words. In reality, Truth starts when the tongue gets stuck and falls silent. Significance and meaning appear where words stop and cannot go further. God speaks in silence, but we want to listen to Him in the language of noise! How, then, can we at all listen to God’s voice? The most precious things in this world are conveyed in the language of silence. Those who know how to listen only to deafening din remain as unaware of these matters as a deaf person is of fine music.
This world of God is infinitely beautiful. Its beauty cannot be described in words. When a person sees the world, he loses all control. He wants to become part of the winds, melt into the trees, and lose himself in the loftiness of the skies. However, his limitations stand in the way of such desire. Perhaps, this is Heaven. An individual will become free of his limitations to enter that beautiful world of Paradise that will last forever.
The civilized world humans have made is starkly different from God’s world. The vehicles people have built emit pollution and create terrible noise. However, in God’s world, light travels at the astounding speed of 1,86,000 miles per second without noise or pollution! Human beings live together, so they always face various problems from one another. However, the winds blow without conflict with anything in God’s world. We emit our waste in the form of carbon dioxide and sweat and dump it into the outside world, but in God’s world, trees emit their ‘pollution’ in the form of oxygen, without which human and animal life would have been impossible. Flowers emit their fragrance as their ‘pollution’. We litter our streets with garbage, even though it is against the law. However, in God’s world, enormous amounts of ‘garbage’ are produced every day without anyone even knowing or noticing this, and this ‘garbage’ is recycled and reconverted into valuable things.
If you deeply ponder these marvels of the universe, you will be struck by the sense of utter helplessness. He will be left speechless, unable to utter even a single word.
