Don’t try to be clever with words. Try to be wise through them. How can you be wise if you don’t have an innate wisdom in yourself? Perhaps you do, after all. You are the universe. You are a repository of everything that has ever existed. By searching for wisdom, you can find it. You can also discover the words shining with inner wisdom. It won’t be easy. Remember, you are not born a sage. You become a sage by relentlessly searching for wisdom and other inner qualities, which are hiding in words and beyond words.
It has been claimed that “Om” is the most powerful word that was ever invented (or discovered). It may be so. Yet, we have a problem here. The question is whether “Om,” is only a word — while it is clearly beyond words and beyond language.
We are not questioning the validity of the practice of the yoga of “Om.” We are suggesting that while reaching the depth of the yoga of “Om” we are in the territory beyond language and words. To try to express the state of the inner meditation in words might cheapen the meaning of “Om” and might make of language a poor pauper exceeding its grasp.
Language and words are powerful, no doubt. The alchemy of language is a fact. And we truly don’t know where words end and magic begins. Wisdom is beyond words. Yet it is so often articulated by words and enshrined by words. I am at times dismayed by words, which drag me down and debase the human condition. Yet I am also elated by words, which give me wings and the power to transcend and the power to reach the stars.
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