“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”

Stephen Richards

The silence which is at the origins and the ends of manifestation is found at both ends of consciousness, in the supracouscious and the subconscious states. Thus ‘tamas’, the distintegrating tendency, is said to be the nature of the transcendent faculties, beyond thought, as well as the nature of the unconscious inertia of matter. While dealing with the relative action of the three qualities within the manifest universe, we shall meet mainly the inert, subconscious form of ‘tamas’, since its transcendent aspect is the Unmanifest…