Hear

What a difficult challenge advances in communications have become in recent decades. On the one hand they are definitely bringing us closer to each other, but are they really bringing us together? Between person and person, between the Self and the Other, a technological intermediary has been introduced – an electrical spark, an electronic impulse, a network, a link, a satellite. The Hindi word upanishada means to sit near, to be near. The Self has been brought to the Other not only by words, but also by being close, by direct contact, by being together. Nothing is capable of taking the place of this experience.