God the supreme Musician
God, the Musician, knows that music is Spirituality, music is Immortality. Man, the musician, thinks that music is sensuality, music is mortality.God, the Musician, knows that His music is His Transcendental Self-Communion. Man, the musician, feels only that his music is his world’s life-long companion.
God, the Musician, is divinely and eternally Mysterious. Man, the musician, is humanly and temporarily marvellous.
God’s music tells us that music is the realisation of the universal soul. Man’s music tells us that music is the aspiration of the individual soul.
God’s music starts at the Height and runs to the Depth. Man’s music starts at the breadth and runs to the length. On the Height, God’s music is His vision. In the Depth, God’s music is His Reality. In the breadth, man’s music is his crying soul. In the length, man’s music is his victory’s goal.
God’s music is the constant expansion of His soul’s delight. Man’s music is the preparation of his life’s hunger for perpetual joy.
God’s music inundates God with its infinite luminosity. Man’s music inundates man with its endless curiosity.
Music in the unlit body is destruction. Music in the unlit vital is passion. Music in the unlit mind is confusion. Music in the unlit heart is frustration.
Music in the aspiring body is creation. Music in the aspiring vital is purification. Music in the aspiring mind is liberation. Music in the aspiring heart is revelation.
My God, the Supreme Musician, has two families. One is in the East, the other in the West. He tells His Eastern children, precisely His Indian children, that music is the soul’s purity. He tells His Western children that music is life’s beauty.
He tells His Eastern children that music is the fulfilling rest at the bottom of the life-sea. He tells His Western children that music is the dance of the multitudinous waves of the life-sea.
He tells His Eastern children, “My children, among you, those who can run will run; those who can march will march; and those who can walk will walk towards their Destined Goal.” He tells His Western children, “My children, I want you all to stay together. I want you all to run together towards your Destined Goal.” He tells His Eastern children, “My children, what you have is a one-pointed and unbroken chain of unity. That is good.” He tells His Western children, “My children, what you have is unity in diversity. That is great.”
He tells His Eastern children, “My children, what you have is your dream’s poetry; what you have is your reality’s literature.”
He tells His Western children, “My children, what you have is your reality’s mathematics, what you have is your dream’s architecture.”
Here we are all seekers, seekers of the Infinite Truth. I wish to tell you that Beethoven was also a genuine seeker. Some of you are consumed with the desire to arouse and awaken your Kundalini, so that you can have occult powers to perform miracles. Well, I wish to tell you that you do not have to practise any specific spiritual discipline in order to awaken your Kundalini. Beethoven is a striking example of how one’s own soulful music, inspired by the higher worlds, can awaken the Kundalini. His music did this very thing for him and awakened that serpent force. The Kundalini, that dormant power lying latent at the base of the spine, arose from its slumbers through the force of Beethoven’s soulful creations. It forced its way upward into the higher chakras of his body and found its glorious release in the magnificent power and immensity of his later symphonies. You may try with your own soul’s music. You are not Beethoven, but I assure you that you, too, will succeed.
Now what Beethoven says about music is true, not only from the intellectual and emotional point of view, but also from the spiritual point of view.
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.”
Music is the Vedic bird in us. This bird divine, called Suparna, flies in the welkin of Infinity, through Eternity, with the message of Immortality. Here on earth, we do notice that the birds have the capacity to sing in endless measure, whereas we human beings are bound to our very few creations. Tagore sings with us:
The birds gave You songs in return.
You gave me only a voice,
But You asked for more,
And I sing."
Fled is that music:" — Do I wake or sleep?
Since music is a universal language, it has no need to express itself in any particular language of the world. Rabindranath Tagore says, “Music is the purest form of art, and, therefore, the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.”
Our body’s food is the product of the earth: fruits and vegetables and so forth. But our soul’s food is music. Undoubtedly it is so. Even our physical nature at times intensely craves and desperately needs music.
What Bouvée says is undeniably true. “Music is the fourth great material want of our nature — first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.”
In the spiritual world, next to meditation comes music, the breath of music. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silence is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Someone said, “Music is another woman who talks charmingly, but says nothing.” I say, “Music is verily the woman who, at once, says everything divinely and offers her soul unreservedly.”
They say, “Classical music is the music without words; modern music is the music without music.” I say, “Classical music is the music that lasts after it has all been played; modern music is the music that begins long before it actually begins.” In classical music we try to see God the Eternal Beyond. In modern music we see God the Eternal Now.
Music is our soul’s home. God is the Supreme Musician. His Flute stirs the universal consciousness. He plays on His Flute. We listen. We do something more. We barter our body’s dust with His Soul’s plenitude.
To God, the Supreme Musician, we bow.
