By Dadi Janki
The call of this time is a call for
peace. In my early morning meditations, I can hear the call of the
peaceless world for peace – not just for an end to conflict, but for a
deep inner stillness and calm, which all souls remember as our original
state.
If we are to find peace, first we must teach ourselves to
become quiet and then we can become peaceful. Becoming peaceful means
seizing the reins of the out-of-control mind and bringing the runaway
thoughts to a halt. Once we have the mind’s attention, we can begin to
coax it to take us into silence, a true silence; not the place without
sound, but the place in which we experience a deep sense of peace and a
pervasive awareness of our well-being.
It is not an empty
mind that elicits this state of peace. To move into this state of
profound silence, we must train the intellect to create pure, good
thoughts. We must train it to concentrate. Our wasteful thoughts
burden us. Our habits of creating too many thoughts and too many words
exhaust the intellect. We must ask, “How can I cultivate the habit of
pure thought?”
Who is it that yearns to go into silence? It is
I, the inner being, the soul. As I detach from my body and from bodily
things, and turn away from the distractions of the world, I can face
inwards to the inner being. Like a perfectly calm lake when all
whispers of wind have stopped, the inner being shimmers, quietly
reflecting the intrinsic qualities of the soul. Feelings of peace and
well-being steal across my mind and, with them, thoughts of
benevolence.
I let go of all thoughts of discontentment and
am reminded of my oldest, most intrinsic state of being. I remember
this inner calm. Though I have not been here recently, I remember it
as my most fundamental awareness, and a feeling of happiness and
contentment wells up inside of me. In this state I know every soul to
be my friend. I am my own friend. I am deeply quiet. I am silent and
utterly at peace.
This deep well of peace is the original state
of the soul. When I am in this state, I feel the flow of love for
humanity and I feel a state more elevated than what I would normally
call happiness, a state of bliss. It is when I attain this state that
something truly miraculous can happen. When I am in this state of
complete soul-conscious rest, I become aware that another energy is
beginning to flow into me. I feel strength and a power so expansive,
that in this moment I know there is nothing I cannot do, nowhere I
cannot reach.
When this happens, I am experiencing the
connection with the divine energy and the flow of God’s power into my
inner being. If I stay focused inwards, connected with this stream of
divine power, even the way I use the physical senses will be
different. When I look at the world, I will see through my original
nature of benevolence and experience compassion for the world.
It
is in this experience that I know what silence power is. It is this
power that transforms me inside, making me pure and powerful. When the
soul and God are linked together, there is a power that reaches me and
then reaches invisibly across to others, bringing about transformation
in them, in nature, and in the world.
The secret of this power
of silence is that I don’t have to do the work of transformation.
Divine power automatically transforms. Let me do the inner work. Let
me go deeply into that experience of the original state of the self,
and let there be silence so that God is able to do His work through me,
His instrument.