1. When a disciple leaves the Guru, how hard it hits the Guru only he can tell, for it is a work undone, a mission unfulfilled.
2. Rituals may serve to be religious embellishment but fail to be a sufficient tool for realisation.
3. Alaap is a fast disappearing feature of music owing to the demands of quick satisfaction of the audience. This must be reversed.
4. Sur is Saraswati -- this we often hear. But what does it mean? Your valued opinion please.
5. We as a nation must learn accuracy in thinking and in expression thereof, that is, we must cultivate the scientific temper.
6. Unless the senses are subdued and the mind made introspective, great music cannot flow. It is spiritual consciousness whose outflow is music.
7. "Earlier there were so many master musicians and so few listeners. Now it is the reverse, such a vast audience but hardly any musical maestro." ...Mallikarjun Mansur.
8. Listen to the Devgiri Bilawal of Pandit Ajoy Sinha Roy. It is a beautiful alaap, soulful, introspective, characteristic of the Maihar Gharana.
9. To receive is so easy, to give so difficult. This springs from attachment to the puny self and is fundamental to exploitation. At the root of it is ignorance, ignorance of the essential oneness of existence despite its apparent diversity and discreteness.
10. Devotion devoid of culture will degenerate. To deepen devotion, refine your artistic sensibilities.
11. When cornered by smooth talk of adversary, stay clear of such influence or resist hard to clear such a one out.
12. Desist from associating with men with malefic intent. Associations cast their influences on the character. Hence, desist.
13. This is how souls are darting to their destination as yet unknown but which, nonetheless, pull them along unto their eventual end.
14. Self-preservation is the basis of both selfish and selfless work, one done in ignorance, the other in awareness of the Self.
15. The life of the Spirit is best felt in meditation when the world about you dissolves and you are lifted above your own self.
16. You must never seek the Real in ancient texts or in modern ones. The Real simply is and everything else is delusion. You are That.
17. The Real is inexpressible, yet, we, who are apparent expressions, keep attempting to express It. And this is Maya.
18. Brahman is the Vast Void, that is, It is devoid of substance that has apparent objective reality. Purna = Shunya
19. All deliberations about Reality are so many attempts to comprehend the finitely incomprehensible. Negation leads to realisation.
20. Thought is action, is karma.
2. Rituals may serve to be religious embellishment but fail to be a sufficient tool for realisation.
3. Alaap is a fast disappearing feature of music owing to the demands of quick satisfaction of the audience. This must be reversed.
4. Sur is Saraswati -- this we often hear. But what does it mean? Your valued opinion please.
5. We as a nation must learn accuracy in thinking and in expression thereof, that is, we must cultivate the scientific temper.
6. Unless the senses are subdued and the mind made introspective, great music cannot flow. It is spiritual consciousness whose outflow is music.
7. "Earlier there were so many master musicians and so few listeners. Now it is the reverse, such a vast audience but hardly any musical maestro." ...Mallikarjun Mansur.
8. Listen to the Devgiri Bilawal of Pandit Ajoy Sinha Roy. It is a beautiful alaap, soulful, introspective, characteristic of the Maihar Gharana.
9. To receive is so easy, to give so difficult. This springs from attachment to the puny self and is fundamental to exploitation. At the root of it is ignorance, ignorance of the essential oneness of existence despite its apparent diversity and discreteness.
10. Devotion devoid of culture will degenerate. To deepen devotion, refine your artistic sensibilities.
11. When cornered by smooth talk of adversary, stay clear of such influence or resist hard to clear such a one out.
12. Desist from associating with men with malefic intent. Associations cast their influences on the character. Hence, desist.
13. This is how souls are darting to their destination as yet unknown but which, nonetheless, pull them along unto their eventual end.
14. Self-preservation is the basis of both selfish and selfless work, one done in ignorance, the other in awareness of the Self.
15. The life of the Spirit is best felt in meditation when the world about you dissolves and you are lifted above your own self.
16. You must never seek the Real in ancient texts or in modern ones. The Real simply is and everything else is delusion. You are That.
17. The Real is inexpressible, yet, we, who are apparent expressions, keep attempting to express It. And this is Maya.
18. Brahman is the Vast Void, that is, It is devoid of substance that has apparent objective reality. Purna = Shunya
19. All deliberations about Reality are so many attempts to comprehend the finitely incomprehensible. Negation leads to realisation.
20. Thought is action, is karma.
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