Is peace something we can sit our way into? We try: eyes closed, body motionless, hoping for a glimpse of something higher. But the body is never still, the brain hums on, and the only perfectly still body is a lifeless one. Real stillness, then, may have little to do with posture. It may mean standing firm in what matters most, with no alternative and no substitute. Where in our lives are we truly still, and where do we keep shifting?
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[From a session in Greater Noida, 2025]
Questioner 1: My wife and I are PhD students here at the University of Georgia in the US. We have been listening to you for about a year now, and we have benefited immensely from the teachings of the Gita, Saint Kabir, Lao Tzu and others through you, and we are really thankful for that. What we have understood is that actual spirituality is all about negating the lower things. It is about removing, not adding: getting rid of our own hidden enemies, such as anger, lust and greed, and in that journey, looking towards the self, ultimately culminating in something we cannot define with words, and we call that the truth, or Atman, or Brahman.
Now, my question is: in some wisdom literature, there has been a reference to something called a sound. There have been examples from different religions and philosophies, and it has been named in several ways, such as Baang-e-Ilahi, Anahad Naad, Bani, Shabd and so on. So I wanted to know, do these references point to nothing but the same truth, or Atman itself? What is the meaning or significance of all these concepts being mentioned in different philosophies? And I would like to know their Vedantic understanding and significance.
