Worshiping/viewing music as God
A correspondent wrote over email (edited extract follows), and provided approval for it to be shared publicly:
Music has this tremendous power - it is the ONLY thing that is common to all cultures of the world (past, present, future) - and it comprises just 7 pure (shuddha) notes and 5 flat (komal or tivra) notes.
If it is one god we talk about - then nowhere is this in evidence except in music. Religions and spiritualists fight over their version of god - musicians do not - they have their ONE god - the 12 notes (swaras).
I think MUSIC is the true god :-)
--- end correspondent message edited extract---
My response (edited):
Great man, please enjoy the/your true music God. In my case, some of the beliefs (not full blown experience) that guide my life are drawn from the Upanishads which say that all is God - Isha Vasyam Idam Sarvam! [Isha/Brahman/God lives/permeates all this (world).] What is not God? How a person expresses his/her worship/visualization of God - through music/as music, through/as poetry, through/as idols symbolizing some values/gods, through/as emotions like love, joy and peace - is their choice, IMHO.
Music has this tremendous power - it is the ONLY thing that is common to all cultures of the world (past, present, future) - and it comprises just 7 pure (shuddha) notes and 5 flat (komal or tivra) notes.
If it is one god we talk about - then nowhere is this in evidence except in music. Religions and spiritualists fight over their version of god - musicians do not - they have their ONE god - the 12 notes (swaras).
I think MUSIC is the true god :-)
--- end correspondent message edited extract---
My response (edited):
Great man, please enjoy the/your true music God. In my case, some of the beliefs (not full blown experience) that guide my life are drawn from the Upanishads which say that all is God - Isha Vasyam Idam Sarvam! [Isha/Brahman/God lives/permeates all this (world).] What is not God? How a person expresses his/her worship/visualization of God - through music/as music, through/as poetry, through/as idols symbolizing some values/gods, through/as emotions like love, joy and peace - is their choice, IMHO.
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