The great mystery of life lies in the silence of life. It is in silence that the soul can be heard to speak. It is in the silence that the inner guidance comes. It is in the expression that silence is golden that the individual falls back on his inner resources and seeks council within his own Being. Speech and activity express the outer surface aspect of the human, and the inner silence fathoms the depths of one's own soul.

The more experiences we have in life the wiser we become, and the wiser we become, the more contained and quieter we become; then silence and wisdom go hand in hand. The one thing we observe in humans is that as one grows in wisdom the quieter one becomes, because that person is in communication with their own Spirit and they are in the process of becoming spiritual. As they do this they become calmer, more contained and less given to unnecessary speech. When they do speak, it is worth listening to what they have to say.

Knowledge often may be erroneous, but wisdom never is. And, when one speaks in wisdom each quiet word has deep meaning. The best and proven way of the ages to gain wisdom, greater intelligence and true human and godly qualities is through Transcendental Meditation; the way of silence where one is able to merge human consciousness with universal or supreme consciousness, and thereby greatly increase his own human mind, body and soul to ultimately attain a cosmic status. In the process of the doing one does give added strength and stability to his own character. Also, in being connected to one's own source one can now move through life with a greater harmony and rhythm and rapidly accomplish the true plan or purpose of life. One slowly begins to see the truth of life and to understand the inner workings of nature, and knowing this one then strives to keep himself in tune with nature. One no longer has to have pure faith in life, or no faith at all, because one is now experiencing one's self at an innermost core of one's own being.

It is said of the Easterner that he takes everything inwardly and holds it there in inactivity and this causes him to become stagnant, and the Westerner, however, is full of energy and activity, but takes very little inward, and as a result, functions on the surface level of activity, and this results in chaos for the most part. So, the East must learn from the West and the West must learn from the East, and this will give balance and integration in the world as well as inspired activity.

Another important thing one learns as one moves in on himself is that the motivating and sustaining force of the universe is love and that humans are a projection of love and that is their own true inner nature. And, through growth the inner Self begins to express itself in the outer as love, and the whole world takes on a new tempo and a new meaning. The new meaning of life for a meditator is now glorious silence and inspired activity.

Life is activity and silence is the power of the creative force of the universe. A little silence sustains a great amount of activity. When one in Transcendental Meditation transcends into the field of the absolute the mind is saturated with the Being, and then coming back into activity the body absorbs as much as it is able to absorb and dissipates the balance. It is the soul that is the pivot point between the world of Spirit and the world of matter, and it is the soul that is the mirror that reflects the Spirit side into the physical side of life, but mostly it is clouded over with material vibrations and cannot vibrate fast enough to reflect the spiritual. It is meditation that removes the cloud or vail of ignorance from around the soul. The soul is also the storehouse of the results of experiences down through the ages and when we become higher attuned it comes through as intuition and as consciousness.

The great turning point of one's human existence is the time one becomes an initiate, or one who steps onto the path of liberation. Now one begins to awaken from the great sleep of materiality and begins to awaken to his true immortal and eternal nature.

It is not easy to stay on the path, or progress along the path, because the mortal self of sensation, dishonesty of purpose, and laziness will play on the mentality and trick one into falling away from honesty of Self to dishonesty of purpose and destiny of the Self. One does have to experience a certain amount of discipline and restriction in order to gain momentum to reach the goal, and this is not always easy. Even if one does fall back to some of his old habits, if he manages to experience enough discipline to meditate regularly, the undesirable habits will fall away in due time. The lower self, in order to maintain the old glamor-of-matter ways, will put great pressure on one to stop meditating so that it may maintain its sway in density of matter. However, if one exercises honesty of purpose and discipline, the Being will slowly overshadow material habits and one by one they will slowly disappear

The truths of life that were spoken of by the sages thousands of years ago and are just now beginning to be understood by the people of the world; that a God of war is now being replaced by a God of love.

Ignorance in life gives fear, hate, greed, killing and selfishness. And, wisdom in life gives peace, strength, humility, love and forgiveness, and a dedication to the fulfillment of the purpose of life. That which for ages was hidden from us is now truth revealed for we are now growing into the truth and the truth will free us. The mystery of life is now being revealed and unfolded to us. Then, what we will discover is that it was all the hidden mysteries within our silence that had to be fathomed and revealed; that we alone were the mystery of life that had to be solved by the yoga of self with the Self. For in the subtle self lies the solution to the mystery of the Self. The gross was for appearances and the subtle for immortality.