MUSIC, THE SPIRITUAL ALLY
Cultivate an ear at least for light classical music like the thumri, dadra, kajri, chaiti and the like so that you may refine your spirits en route to God-realisation.
Divine realisation becomes easier through the progressive refinement of the sensibilities and music of an elevated kind is its best aid. The nerves becomes finer through these cultural contacts and the senses are withdrawn from the lower three centres to the fourth centre in the heart. Thus is the spiritual life opened up through listening to the right kind of music. Hence, spirituality has music as its cultural corollary.
I can assure you that despite initial resistance of your conservative nerves, through a modicum of persistence in lending your ears to classical and semi-classical music of, as I said, the right sort, you will reap in due course not only the delight of this sublimest art form but will gain spiritual uplift as well.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Hirabai Barodekar
Cultivate an ear at least for light classical music like the thumri, dadra, kajri, chaiti and the like so that you may refine your spirits en route to God-realisation.
Divine realisation becomes easier through the progressive refinement of the sensibilities and music of an elevated kind is its best aid. The nerves becomes finer through these cultural contacts and the senses are withdrawn from the lower three centres to the fourth centre in the heart. Thus is the spiritual life opened up through listening to the right kind of music. Hence, spirituality has music as its cultural corollary.
I can assure you that despite initial resistance of your conservative nerves, through a modicum of persistence in lending your ears to classical and semi-classical music of, as I said, the right sort, you will reap in due course not only the delight of this sublimest art form but will gain spiritual uplift as well.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Hirabai Barodekar
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