Passages from The Source of Music

The source of music is supreme silence, and this silence is the goal of a seeker's meditative discipline.

Silence is like a stream that goes to one place and becomes a river, or to another place and becomes a brook, or to the sea where it is totally expanded.

Soulful music immediately awakens and inspires our hearts because it embodies the Absolute Supreme.

With the help of music, the mind binds and disciplines the senses and makes them into perfect instruments so they can be inundated with peace, light and bliss from above.

Soulful music offers delight rather than vital excitement.

Musicians should give something new; they should give the world music that comes directly from the soul, music that will help humanity raise its consciousness - not the things that have been known for many, many years, but the things that people have never seen or felt or heard.

When you play music, feel that it is not you who is playing. Somebody else is playing and somebody else is enjoying. But that somebody else is part of you.

Many people are not born poets or artists. But by practising meditation, they bring into their system literary capacities, painting capacities, musical capacities, because meditation means new life.

You can make your music full of supreme beauty if you can remember constantly that your music is only an extension of your inner consciousness and that it is also an expression of the divine within that is crying for manifestation.

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