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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This is true, altogether true, it is at the moment when all is silenced in order that man may become conscious of his origin that he, in his folly, in order to distract himself conceives or carries out the worst stupidities.(The Mother, 12 March 1951) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-march-1951#p48</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In making a noise? Because they like to deaden themselves. In silence they have to face their own difficulties, they are in front of themselves, and usually they don't like that. In the noise they forget everything, they become stupefied. So they are happy. (The Mother, 12 March 195126 January 1955)</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0407/1226-marchjanuary-19511955#p48p13</ref>

<div style="color:#000000To try to solve this problem ascetics used to go away into forests and sit under a tree;">In making a noise? Because there, of course, they like had not to deaden themselvesfear any contagion from other human beings. In silence they have But it is very difficult to go to face their own difficultiesthe very end of this resolution, they are for it quickly gets known that a saint is sitting under a tree in front of themselvesmeditation, and immediately everybody rushes there! Not only does he not escape from the difficulty, but he increases it, for there is not a thing more dangerous than to teach others. You know just a little and you begin to teach others, and usually they don't like thatyou are immediately compelled to say more than you know, because people put questions to you which you cannot answer, unless you are a hero of silence. In the noise world, those who want to pass themselves off as spiritual teachers—when people come and ask them something they forget everythingdo not know, they become stupefiedinvent it. So they are happy(The Mother, 5 February 1951) <ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/04/5-february-1951#p12</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">(Man is the first animal on earth to be able to use articulate sounds. Indeed, he is very proud of this capacity and exercises it without moderation or discernment. The Mother, 26 January 1955)</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;">world is deafened with the sound of his words and sometimes one almost misses the harmonious silence of the plant kingdom. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0712/26the-januaryfour-1955austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p13p34</ref></span>

<div style="color:#000000;">To try to solve this problem ascetics used to go away into forests and sit under a tree; there, of course, they had not to fear any contagion from other human beings. But it is very difficult to go to the very end of this resolution, for it quickly gets known that a saint is sitting under a tree in meditation, and immediately everybody rushes there! Not only does he not escape from the difficulty, but he increases it, for there is not a thing more dangerous than to teach others. You know just a little and you begin to teach others, and you are immediately compelled to say more than you know, because people put questions to you which you cannot answer, unless you are a hero of silence. In the world, those who want to pass themselves off as spiritual teachers—when people come and ask them something they do not know, they invent it. </div> <div style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 5 February 1951)</div> <div style="color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/5-february-1951#p12</ref></div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Man is the first animal on earth to be able to use articulate sounds. Indeed, he is very proud of this capacity and exercises it without moderation or discernment. The world is deafened with the sound of his words and sometimes one almost misses the harmonious silence of the plant kingdom.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p34</ref></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The descent of the peace is often one of the first major positive experiences of the sadhana. In this state of peace the normal thought-mind (buddhi) is apt to fall silent or abate most of its activity and, when it does, very often either this vital mind can rush in, if one is not on one's guard, or else a kind of mechanical physical or random subconscient mind can begin to come up and act; these are the chief disturbers of the silence. Or else the lower vital mind can try to disturb; that brings up the ego and passions and their play. All these are signs of elements that have to be got rid of, because if they remain and other of the higher powers begin to descend, Power and Force, Knowledge, Love or Ananda, those lower things may come across with the result that either the higher consciousness retires or its descent is covered up and the stimulation it gives is misused for the purposes of the lower nature. This is the reason why many sadhaks after having big experiences fall into the clutch of a magnified ego, upheavals, ambition, exaggerated sex or other vital passions or distortions. It is always well therefore if a complete purification of the vital can either precede or keep pace with the positive experience—at least in natures in which the vital is strongly active.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-mind#p48</ref></span>