The Necessary Noise

God is grand serenity and man is sheer noise

By Mukesh Sharma

The hushed sex noises made by two copulating bodies of opposite sex outside and millions of sonorous sperms dashing and darting, clamoring and competing with one another inside to hug one pliant and pluvial ovum out of legion, result in a baby who too makes ‘noise’ after coming out of the womb of its mother. Thus born out of noise, man lives with the noise and dies with the noise.

The Necessary Noise

 

Noise can be any audible or inaudible sound – rhythmic or unrhythmic, shout or silence, hullabaloo or hush, turmoil or tranquility, symphony or schism, harmony or hiatus cacophony or calm, decibel or desire, winged words or wishful wishes.

For the whole life, man battles with noise. His life shuttles between two noises – external noise and internal noise.

Noise emanating from any outside source can be rated as external noise. To man, it can be the language of animals speaking through their respective so-called nasal sounds. It can be screech of bat, growl of bear, hum of bees, chirp of sparrow, grunt of camel, mew of cat, crow of cocks, moo of cow, caw of crow, bark of dog, triumph of elephant, bray of donkey, quack of duck, howl of fox, buzz of fly, chortle of kangaroo, roar of lion, squeak of mice, shriek of owl, scream of peacock, bleat of sheep, sing of whales, whinny of zebra. A language becomes noise when one doesn’t understand it.

Nature too makes variety of noises; it can be splash of water; it can be wheeze of wind; it can be swish of the earth’s movement on its axis and around the sun; it can be rattle of leaves and trees; it can be burbling of a waterfall; it can be swash of waves of ocean. There is boundless knowledge/wisdom beyond the noise of nature.

Rhythmic repetition of sounds is called white noise that too can be counted as external noise. All songs/devotional songs are white noise used by all the religions. Man uses it as intoxicant, for it can send man to sleep,  delirium or disillusion far away from the reality of life.

Noise of crowd gives rise to hysteric frenzy that may lead to war or riot. It harms man more than good.

Noise made by TV channels/newspapers/films / social media is used by the vested interests to hack the mind of the people who buy their opinion from media and go by herd thinking. It is used for propaganda that further develops into a perception either in favour or against something/somebody. Netas use it for politics. Loudest noise maker is the greatest neta.

Internal noise is the coolest one – a gift of mother nature; it can be the noise of the heart beat; it can be the noise of rushing blood in artery and veins; it can be the noise of breath in and out; it can be the noise of desires or disenchantment; it can be the noise of hope or despondence; it can be the noise of love or hate; it can be the noise of sorrow or happiness; it can be the noise of pelf or  poverty; it can be the noise of wisdom or foolishness; it can be the noise of theism or atheism. It can be the noise of devil or deity.

It is this internal noise that makes or mars the life. There is deafening silence beyond this noise. Poet and writers feel it. Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, Guru Nanak realized it. There is regime of God beyond this internal noise. Anyone who goes beyond this noise  be one with the God; one becomes God unto oneself. God is grand serenity, man is sheer noise.