‘Towards Silence’  is a meditation on the four states of Atma for four string quartets (in high galleries unseen) and Large Tibetan Bowl (in Dome in highest gallery)

A la memoire de Rene Gueron

‘Towards Silence’ was inspired by reading Rene Gueron’s book ‘Man and his becoming according to the Vedanta’.

From an exoteric sense ‘Towards Silence’ can be seen as a Meditation on the different states of dying, but from an esoteric sense it is a meditation on the four states of Atma.

1] Vaishvanara; The Waking State, which has knowledge of external objects and which has nineteen mouths and the world of manifestation for its province.
Manduka Upanishad 1-3

2] Taijasa; The Dream State, which has knowledge of inward objects, which has nineteen mouths and whose domain is the world of subtle manifestation.
Manduka Upanished 1-4

3] Prajna; The condition of Deep Sleep, When the individual who is asleep, experiences no desire and is not the subject of any dreams, he has become Atma, and is filled with Beatitude. (Ananda)

4] Turiya; That which is beyond. The greatest state (Mahattara) is the fourth, totally free from any mode of existence whatever, with fullness of Peace and Beatitude without duality.