silence

SILENCE, WHICH IS DEVOID OF THE ASSERTIVE EGO, ALONE IS LIBERATION.

The pure state 

of being attached to grace [Self], 

which is devoid of any attachment, 

alone is one's own state of SILENCE, 

which is devoid of any other thing. 

Know that one's ever abiding 

as that SILENCE, 

having experienced it as it is, 

alone is true mental worship [manasika-puja]. 

Know that the performance 

of the unceasing, true and natural worship 

in which the mind is submissively established as the one Self, 

having installed the Lord 

on the Heartthrone, 

is SILENCE, 

the best of all forms of worship. 

Silence, which is devoid of the assertive ego, alone is liberation. . 

- The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. 

Be as you are edited by David Godman.