There has never been a time
when you and I have not existed...
There will never be a time
when we will cease to be.
~ from the BHAGAVAD GITA
As long as the soul is not still there can be no vision, but when stillness has brought us into the presence of God, then another sort of silence, much more absolute, intervenes: the silence of a soul that is not only still and recollected but which is overawed in an act of worship by God's presence.