Chapter 32: “No Fight” Is the Central Teaching
So just know how to surrender. And when I say “how” to surrender, I do not mean to know a technique; I mean you have a natural possibility of surrendering in love. Surrender in love and feel it there. And then let it spread all over your life.
The third question:
Please explain whether the anahat nad - soundless sound - is a type of sound or whether it is total soundlessness. And also explain how the state of total soundfulness can be equal to total soundlessness.
Anahat nad is not a type of sound, it is soundlessness, but this soundlessness is heard. To express it is difficult because then the logical question arises of how soundlessness can be heard.
Let me explain it.. I am sitting on this chair. If I go away from this chair, will you not see my absence in the chair? It cannot be seen by one who has not seen me sitting here, he will simply see the chair. But a moment before I was here and you have seen me sitting here. If I move away and you look at the chair, you will see two things: the chair and my absence. But that absence will be seen only if you have seen me and you have not forgotten me, that I was there.
We are hearing sounds; we only know sounds. So when that soundlessness comes, anahat nad, we feel that every sound has disappeared and absence is felt. That is why it is called anahat nad. It is also called nad; nad means sound. But anahat changes the quality of the sound. Anahat means uncreated, so it is uncreated sound.
Every sound is a created sound. Whatsoever sounds you have heard, they are all created. That which is created will die. I can clap my hands - a sound is created. It was not there before and now it is no more; it was created and it has died. A created sound is known as ahat nad. Uncreated sound is known as anahat nad - the sound that is always. Which is that sound that is always? It is not really a sound. You call it a sound because the absence is heard.
If you live by a railway station and one day the railway union goes on strike, you will hear something no one can hear. You will hear the absence of the trains coming and going and moving.
I was traveling in the past for at least three weeks every month. In the beginning it was very difficult to sleep in the train, and then it became difficult to sleep at home. When I was no longer sleeping only in trains, the sound of the train was missed. Whenever I would reach home it would be difficult, because I would miss and I would feel the absence of the railway sounds.