Silence is Everything

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This paper discusses and analyzes the purpose behind Meyer Baba's decision to stop using speech as a form of communication. The paper explains how Baba was able to communicate even in silence and discusses the philosophical message Baba conveyed through his silence.

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"According to various sources, it is said that Meyer Baba did not speak or verbalize any words as far back as July 1925. Most sources also say that in the beginning of his silent period, Baba wrote on paper with a pencil, and then about a year and a half later, he ceased to write at all. Many have wondered the same as I as to why Baba cut himself off from the method of speech as a form of communication. Authors Tom and Dorothy Hopkinson have written on the aspect of Baba's silence in their book Much Silence Meher Baba: His Life & Work. The Hopkinson's believe that the answer to Baba's silence lies what Baba had to say about silence himself, "I have come not to teach, but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts...Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form I observe silence. You have asked for and been given enough words-it is now time to live them." (Hopkinson, 1974)."

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