Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The primordial sound

'O mind! Be drenched in the divine nectar of music......'
This is how saint-poet thaygaraja envisions the ecstatic realms of unbound creativity, sometimes manifesting itself as music. Modern science, especially quantum physics, is slowly unleashing the facets of the mysterious universe. According to the string theory, everything that we perceive as real through our physical senses (and that we cannot perceive) is a part of a humongous wave that has neither a start nor an end. The trick here being that the fabric of the wave is so intricate that the design allows (in fact, forces) that everything stays together at all points of time (or the lack of it).
The illusion of duality that is a mere cosequence of the trickery of various modes of sensory perception needs to be veiled to have a sight of what lies beneath. Why do we need to do this? Well, it just happens if it is intended to. How do we know this? Again, there are many ways as to 'get there'. But it would not be a mere parable for me to illustrate that the concept of 'God' which the religions were originally intended to, though have had their own shares of modifications and devastations of the central concept, still have a common practise that is ubiquitous to the world religions that have been eversince. And I lovingly refer it to as 'Music'.
This is my humble attempt to bring to surface the pioneering efforts of great composers who have been repeating yet again that music itself is an instrument, a tool to reach a place that is usually undescribable. 
'Let my flowers to you, my lord, be the seven notes that emanate out of your grace!'
Welcome to my blog-Nadopasana...................................

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