SILENCE IS NO MORE SILENCE — PART 6

SILENCE IS NO MORE SILENCE — PART VI: WHEN MY HEART WANTED

SOMEONE TO LISTEN, MY SOUL BROKE ITS SILENCE — What if the one

who most desperately wants to listen to your heart has been within you all along?

At five in the morning, Dr. Abhishek Gilara wanted to express his love for his wife

through a poem, inspired by the previous evening’s Diwali gathering, where he had

quietly watched her enjoying herself while others laughed, talked and played cards.

His silence was not loneliness but happiness, because seeing her happy made him

happy. Yet when he wished to share this beautiful feeling, nobody was available to

listen. In that extraordinary moment of stillness, he experienced what he understood

as the presence of his soul and began questioning whether he had spent his entire

life searching for someone to listen while his own soul had been patiently waiting

for his attention.

This deeply personal experience became the foundation of the sixth part of SILENCE IS NO MORE SILENCE,

in which, through five reflective chapters, he explores the profound connections between love, silence,

self-awareness, spiritual companionship and the soul. Drawing upon his disciplined early morning routine, spiritual

practices, extraordinary writing journey and intimate experiences of everyday life, he asks why we remember

our soul mainly during suffering, why we constantly seek external understanding, and why we overlook

happiness, gratitude and love as pathways to spiritual awakening. He discovers that silence is neither emptiness

nor loneliness but an opportunity to recognise the companion within, and that listening to ourselves does not

mean withdrawing from the world but learning to love it more deeply. Through his spiritual understanding of a

soul that may have waited across countless births to be heard, he reminds readers that every emotion remains

meaningful even when nobody is immediately available to receive it. As he reflects, “I was desperately searching

for someone to listen to my heart. But perhaps my soul had been waiting far longer for me to listen to her.” This

book is for everyone who has ever wished to share a beautiful feeling but found nobody available, offering the

comforting possibility that silence does not mean nobody is there; perhaps it is an invitation to discover the presence

that has always existed within us.