Silence is not keeping mum. Nondualistic silence is the nature of the Soul, the Self.+

Silence is not keeping mum. By keeping mum, the thought process will not stop. Nondualistic silence is the nature of the Soul, the Self. 

Nondualistic silence is like a deep sleep state where the waking experience is absent. If the waking experience is absent then there is neither thinker nor thought nor the world.

Nondualistic silence is possible only in Self-awareness. Self-awareness is possible only when Advaitic wisdom dawns. 

Advaitic wisdom dawns only when the waking entity realizes it,  itself is not the Self, but the Self is the invisible and unborn  Soul, which witnesses the coming and going, of the three states. 

In Atmic reality, the witness and the witnessed are one in essence. Just because some guru or teacher said to observe silence it only means to imitate the formless Self, but it does not lead one to Self-realization.

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In deep sleep, there is neither birth, nor life, nor death, nor the world, nor gods, nor is there is total void since consciousness alone exists as free from the experience of waking or dreaming.

The birth, life, death, and the world are based on the false self within the false experience.

From the standpoint of the false self and the false knowledge, the waking experience is experienced as reality. But when that false knowledge is not there, such notions also do not exist, as in the state of deep sleep.

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Deep sleep brings a sense of non-dualistic peace with it. This experience one gets only in the absence of the ‘I’. Therefore, there is a need to investigate what is this ‘I’? The ‘I’ appears and disappears.

A deeper investigation reveals the fact that the ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. The mind is in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

The ‘Self’ is not the ‘I’. If you hold the ‘Self’ as ‘I’ then you will never be able to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

The ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the witness of the ‘I’ that appears and diapers. Thus, the ‘I’ is not permanent.

That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)

The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self, which is the cause of the 'I'.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar