Hear noise? Both hearing and noise are proofs of Silence || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Acharya Prashant: You are talking about the sound of the naad and you are wondering whether that can be used as a technique.

What will you use as a technique?

There has to be something to be used. The naad is not the sound at all. What will you use and how will you use? There has to be something to be used. When there is nothing how will you put it to use?

The naad is not at all a sound. And if you are talking of a sound then it is just something that your ears can hear and the moment your ears are not there the sound will be gone.

What then is meant by naad? Naad means a particular soundlessness even in the middle of the sounds. Naad means the silent background on which you hear all the sounds.

Now you cannot hear that silence really. All that you can know is that there is something beyond these sounds, that you can hear these sounds only because they have a certain silent background. So hearing itself is a proof of naad which means paradoxically that naad is a soundless sound that you actually hear with your ears.