Music is God
Dear friends, let me share with you
life enhancing truths on the richest fruit of existence, inspired
music. Music is pure vibration. Higher states of consciousness can
be entered into directly through sound. Music is the fragrance of
the divine. If you were to see deeply into the mind of God, you
would no longer be seeing, only hearing, wave after wave of
interstellar harmonies played out over cosmic time. Music is where
all the noise of existence coalesces into a sublime meaningfulness
that expands far beyond the barriers of the limited mind. Music is
not just some garnishing added to existence, it is deeply embedded
within the very nature of existence itself. Every atom of existence
is one note in a cosmic symphony playing eternally in the mind of
God. Successful earthly music is that which increases the
vibrational frequency of thoughtless awareness so you can raise your
consciousness to tune into the cosmic vibrations of existence.
Music and meditation are pretty much
one and the same thing. Music trains your being to enter into realms
of deep listening that are impossible to fathom by any other means.
Clearly, we are not talking about the factory produced music
supported by technocrats designed to make you into a perfect
consumer. This so-called music actually has the opposite effect, it
takes you deeper into the realm of delusion, duality, conflict, and
leaves you feeling a sense of lack or restlessness when finished
rather then a deep feeling of peace, expansion and inner fulfillment.
Music is the fulfillment of life.
Authentic music should leave you with a feeling of being washed over
in ecstatic waves of consciousness until your whole mind and body are
overflowing in pure awareness. Nearly every culture in the past has
had some form of music that connects people with ecstatic states of
consciousness. It is one of the most healthy, rejuvenating and
life-sustaining things to do. But, somehow such states of
consciousness have become taboo for an industrialized society that
would apparently rather be dulled by entertainment then awakened
through it.
It is due to a deep fear of silence
that modern man has forgotten the true potential of inspired music. True music creates an inner silence in you where
you can feel the sound coming from the soundless and merging back
into the soundless. It may at first appear as unusual
to you, since all your habitual thoughts, memories, feelings and
perceptions are melted down and dispersed into a vast empty space.
Yet, it is here, in this vast empty space, that the true delights of
the universe are to be experienced, enjoyed and shared.
All it takes for one to be spiritual is
to enjoy good music. The music itself should be enough to draw you
into deeper states of awareness. All it requires is the right
environment and your conscious receptivity. The power of divinely
inspired music knows no bounds and the effects it has on your being
are immeasurable.
Music is the vehicle that prepares you
to directly experience God. The deep listening and heightened
concentration that is nurtured by creating and listening to music
helps you connect straight away with the energy of an Enlightened
Being. You will simply experience Him or Her as a beautiful
composition. Not just in the graceful vibrations of Their voice,
simply through Their very being, in the air around Them, and in the
space filling the room. Where others see only bones and flesh, you
will experience a sweet symphony of subtle energies that you can
merge into and out of by a simple act of conscious attunement.
Music is not something to enjoy like a
spectator from a distance, it is to be entered into with totality.
The notes, rhythms and textures should vibrate within your very
being. It should take you over completely. In the beginning of the
song, you should feel as though the universe is appearing right
before you for the first time. In the peaks, you should feel fully
merged with the sound, like feeling one with the bubbling sound of a
river. In the valleys, you should feel relaxed, like you have been
eternally released from all the mundane concerns of life. And when
the song fades away into nothing, your very being should follow it
into the vastness of pure space and beyond.
When you can enter into oneness with
the subtle vibrations of inspired music, you can enter into oneness
with all the subtle vibrations of nature—in the air, trees, ocean,
plants and animals, and loved ones. You can begin to commune with
all the inner planes of consciousness of which music is the nearest
earthly reflection. When your mind is filled with inspired music,
you are in the mind of God. When your heart is filled with inspired
music, you are in the heart of God. When your being is filled with
inspired music, you are God.
To create inspired music requires a
deep emptiness. Through heightened awareness, the surface level
disturbances of thought are to be relinquished. It is simply a
matter of letting go of attachment to any idea of a result. When you
enjoy the pure presence of creativity, this presence is mystically
embedded into the music and can be experienced by sensitive
listeners. Inspired music is beyond any individual identity or
personality, when you reach into the fathomless depths of your being
and act effortlessly from the timeless space within, a spontaneous
flow of creation is born from within you that is a direct expression
of existence itself.
It is no coincidence that the exemplar
of all Incarnations to walk on earth, Lord Krishna, is pictured with
a flute. His divine music meant more to those near and dear to Him
then a million words spoken on spiritual liberation. His flute
playing is not just symbolic, in a single moment of His song, all the
pains and sufferings of countless lifetimes would simply be washed
away from the hearts of those near to Him.
A good song encompasses the sum total
of a thousand lifetimes worth of experience. It is the momentary
feeling of eternity that all are seeking and which music can
beautifully fulfill. It is only by entering into such timeless
spaces that the momentary flow of life becomes filled with deep
meaning. This experience is all the more needed in today’s world
where we are constantly bombarded by an array of meaningless media
from all directions.
Modern advances in sound technology
have made it possible to tune sounds very subtly so they may directly
express the inner experiences of consciousness. There is a mystical
science involved in sound. Sound and vibration are so primary to the
fabric of existence, that through them, anything and everything can
be achieved. There is a tremendous opportunity for Enlightened
Beings and Rishis of the future to use modern sound technologies
along with the science of ancient mantras to create a new genre of
inspired music that can directly transmit the Enlightenment
experience.
Even when transmitting the ultimate
experience, there is essentially no purpose to inspired music. It is
the spontaneous joy and excitement through which the music is created
and enjoyed that gives it its grace and glory. When you can enjoy
the most purposeless thing in existence with your whole being, you
are one with the divine and the whole cosmos becomes yours to enjoy.
Be Blissful!!!!!!!!!!! OM
