Ekant (solitude) is commonly understood to be a physical state, in which even highly evolved souls went away into snow covered mountains or jungles to meditate in solitude, undisturbed by people, noise or any other form of disturbance.

Pujya Ma has explained that Ekant is a state of internal silence, unaffected by mental aberrations, beliefs, complexes and prejudgements, where there is an open mind, willing to objectively listen to another’s point of view. In fact, true Ekant means total identification, where only the other exists; where the one in Ekant is oblivious of himself/herself and goes to the other’s level. Thus, there is total compassion, feeling the pain of the other in its purity, as if it is one’s own pain.

Pujya Ma often tells us to check at a noisy crossroads, with heavy traffic and considerable noise, where one’s thoughts and concentration are. That is the place to discern whether one’s mind is in Ekant and experiencing an inner quietitude or whether the external noise is affecting one’s internal state of mind and if so, to what extent.