“In the beginning was the Word.”

The first sentence of the Bible – “In the beginning there was word”. I checked it again this morning. And the biblical story of creation goes “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. The God has created the world. He created the seas, He created Adam and from the rib of Adam, Eve.

But I disagree with the very first sentence. I may be allowed to call it meaningless because the writer must be stupid. The creation is yet to become. In fact, it is yet to begun. If you write ‘In the beginning, there was the word’ I have no other option but to wonder ‘How can the ‘word’ exist? Word has no meaning, and it becomes useless without an understanding mind. Word is a word only if it is understood. So, the word cannot exist in the beginning!

Can we change this statement? Can we say ‘in the beginning there was the sound’? Even this change too does not gel.  This is also wrong. Sound can only exist when there are ears to appreciate. Sound cannot exist without appreciating ears!

Then how can we redefine it? If I were to write the Bible again, how do I write it? I realised the best way to write or correct that sentence in this manner- ‘In the beginning there was silence’.

Silence is what I speak. It is not the sound you listen in the music. It could be musicians like the Laxmikanth-Pyarelal or A.R. Rahman. Silence is divine!  That’s why we call music as divine. The same applies to our talking and your talking. When I talk, I talk musically. When I say musically, you should not pay attention to the words that I speak. You have to understand the silence between the spoken words. Then your understanding is complete.

To put it differently sir, whenever I read the newspapers, the Bhagwat Gita the greatest song, Bible / Quran the greatest book, it is not the Bible, Gita or Quran that I read for the words by themselves are meaningless. But when you start paying attention to the gaps between the words then you start understanding the Bible, Gita or Quran. The words are meaningless, and they can be distorted or wrongly interpreted. The moment we take a word from its place it becomes meaningless. You need to pay attention to the gaps between words. When you start appreciating that gap, that silence, that nothingness then you are with God. No… then you are God.

Words are meant for humans. Silence is the language of God. Hence, ‘In the beginning there was silence’

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