Wednesday, October 12, 2011

What is Peace

The words "peace, calm, quiet, silence" have each their own shade of meaning, but it is not easy to define them.
Peace- santi. 
Calm -sthirata. 
Quiet -acancalata. 
Silence- niscala-niravata.

Quiet is a condition in which there is no restlessness or disturbance.
Calm is a still unmoved condition which no disturbance can affect -it is a less negative condition than quiet.
Peace is a still more positive condition; it carries with it a sense of settled and harmonious rest and deliverance.
Silence is a state in which either there is no movement of the mind or vital or else a great stillness which no surface movement can pierce or alter .

Sri Aurobindo

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