It is all this – dvaita, viśishtādvaita and advaita points of view come together here in this Ātman, and the conclusions of the schools of thought merge into the single truth of a blend of various standpoints. Quarrels cease, arguments come to a stop, philosophies are hushed, silence prevails. This Ātman is Silence, said a great Master. When a devotee came, and asked the Guru, ‘Tell me the Ātman’, the Guru kept quiet. When the disciple queried again, ‘Master, tell me the Ātman’, the Guru kept quiet, again. A third time the question was raised, and the Guru kept quiet, once more. When for the fourth time the disciple put the same question, ‘Tell me the Ātman’; the Guru said, ‘I am telling you, you are not hearing; because Silence is the Ātman’. In that Great Silence, all the turmoil of the cosmos is calmed. All the clamour of the senses, all the noise of the universe is contained and absorbed in this Silence. The Silence here is better than all the sounds that one makes, and it explains things better than all the speeches that one utters. This Silence is a fuller explanation than all the logical arguments of the philosophers. This Silence of all silences connotes Reality in a more comprehensive manner, than anything else, because when we express it in words, we come down from its level to a lower grade, and begin to think of it as an external object. The Kena Upanishad warns us when it says, “It is not known to those who know it; it is known to those who do not know it”. If you think you know it, you do not know it, and when you know it, you do not think, but you simply are. You have become That, and you are That; and that is real knowledge. Knowledge is not expression, but Being. It is not becoming or a process. -- Swami krishnananda on Mandukya Upanishad
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