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VOL. 12, ISSUE 2 (2026)
Transcendental silence as knowledge in Deepak Chopra’s The Book of Secrets
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Parnika, Neelam Hooda
Abstract
This paper examines Deepak Chopra’s The Book of Secrets as a literary spiritual text that reconceptualises silence not as absence but as an alternative epistemology. Moving beyond conventional binaries of speech and muteness, Chopra's transcendental philosophy posits silence as a productive site of knowledge, memory, and ontological depth, where the limits of language give way to intuitive and cosmic understanding. Drawing on Vedantic metaphysics, Buddhist notions of emptiness, and contemporary consciousness studies, the text constructs what may be termed "silent epistemology", a mode of knowing that operates outside discursive rationality. The present paper argues that The Book of Secrets deploys the unsaid as a narrative strategy that resists the dominance of Western logocentric and empiricist knowledge systems. Silence in Chopra is not a void but a field of latent meaning, functioning as both a spiritual archive and a counter-narrative to modernity's obsession with articulation, productivity, and visibility. Through close textual analysis, the study demonstrates how Chopra's meditative pauses, aphoristic gaps, and metaphysical elisions enact the poetics and politics of absence. The paper further explores how transcendental silence in Chopra becomes a form of cultural and epistemic resistance, challenging the authority of materialist science and linguistic representation. By positioning stillness as a legitimate mode of cognition, The Book of Secrets offers a radical rethinking of knowledge, where wisdom emerges not through the accumulation of data but through attunement to the unspoken. Ultimately, this study shows that Chopra's spiritual narrative transforms silence into a powerful medium of memory, healing, and ontological insight, making it a vital contribution to contemporary discourses on the unsaid.
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Pages:30-36
How to cite this article:
Parnika, Neelam Hooda "Transcendental silence as knowledge in Deepak Chopra’s The Book of Secrets". International Journal of English Research, Vol 12, Issue 2, 2026, Pages 30-36
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