silence

THE real ultimate teaching is silence. The real teaching is simply silence. It is not to utter words. Words and speech constitute a human phenomenon. Human nature and all its movements are finite and limited. They are necessarily conditioned by time and space. They are also, by their very nature of human perception, cognisance and knowing, confined within the framework of name and form.
All human speech and words are conditioned. How can you expect to express the unconditioned through a conditioned medium? Nevertheless, because speech is expected, words are spoken. Out of necessity they are spoken. Evidently it is a necessity, otherwise how to account for the voluminous scriptures of all the world’s religions? All these scriptures constitute words and language, which is a phenomenon limited by time and space, name and form. It means that words have been a necessity and evidently that necessity still continues, for new spiritual literature is being produced every day.
Innumerable are the questions that ask for a reply. Therefore language seems to have become necessary. But, it is still true that the ultimate and only teaching is silence. There can be no teaching greater than silence and that alone is able to express the truth about the ultimate Reality.
All speech implies a duality, and the ultimate Reality is supremely non-dual, absolute, one without a second. Speech being a communication between two, and thus necessarily implying duality, how can it be the ultimate and best teaching?