mauna
मौन maunaSilence, especially as a spiritual discipline and, in the case of Dakshinamurti, as the highest teaching itself. The para-vidya, the higher knowledge of the self, is held to be untransmittable in words; the guru's silence is its form. Shankara's Stotra: the guru's exposition is silence, and the disciples' doubts are cut.
Where this term appears
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
And the lecture, the vyakhyana , the formal exposition a scholar would deliver, is mauna , silence.
- Why is Om chanted at the start and end of prayers and yoga? Journal
It was mauna , silence, which he treated as the truest transmission, the Self showing itself without a word.