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Spirituality In Indian Music

Presenters :Amit LimbaDixant LohiyaKrishna PatelRajat JainSweta Patel

Spirituality It is a concept of an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his or her being; or the “deepest values meanings by which people live.”

MusicIt is a mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life and soulful music is a form aspiration, a form of meditation.

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

Spirituality in Indian Music has always been a major driving force. In fact the origins to be associated with divinity.

Spirituality has been one of the major factors shaping Indian music. Some of the most identifiable spiritual traits are those associated with mother worship, the oldest type of worship associated with origin of the world. Indian music is said to have a divine origin and is said to be a manifestation of divinity itself.

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

The goddess SARASWATI is said to be the presiding deity of the twin arts of MUSIC and LITERATURE. These are also known as the twin arts of verbal and non-verbal knowledge. The VEENA represents the non-verbal and the BOOKS represents the verbal aspects. The essence of music was ascribed to Gods and Goddesses, to SARASWATI,to NARADA, etc.

Spirituality thus forms a rather important part of Indian music.

“A man with god is hero, a man without god is zero”.

In fact, spirituality is the vehicle by which a person tries to cross beyond the bounds of religious rituals, dogma,etc. and Indian music is a mirror of the essentially spiritual nature of our culture.The highest form in music is spirituality. It gives a stipulated period of time within which you give your best.

INDIAN MUSIC: A CONNECTION TO GOD.Music becomes a spiritual path when we offer our music performance to the divine or start recognizing the oneness in music and god.“The whole universe exists in the spirit, by the spirit, for the spirit; all we do, think and feel is for the spirit.”

Music and Spirituality are synonymous, especially in the context of Indian music.Most of the musicians will vouchsafe that music and spirituality are interlinked .Indian musicians also state that music and spirituality are related because there is a distinct co-relation between spiritualism and religion.As per the holy texts and scriptures the first sound in the universe is believed to be ‘OM’(Aum) and this is considered to be the ‘BRAMHNAAD.’“One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.”

Spirituality is related to inner and ecstatic experiences. Spirituality in music is a highly personal and inexplicable inner experience of genuine artists.

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Music has close connection with spirituality. Spiritual music like O PALANHARE has the capacity to enlighten our mind and inspires us to dive deep within. The most profound spirituality involves peace and silence. But to enter this realm of peace and silence it is quite practical to take the benefit of spiritual, soulful music.“Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity for

life.”.

People claim that the rishi Narada introduced the art of music to our planet. The origin of Indian music can be traced back to Vedic days. It is said that the sound that pervades the whole universe represents the divinity. Organized Indian music owes its origin to the Samaveda. The Veda has all the seven notes of the raga karaharpriya in the descending order. The earliest raga is speculated to be Sama Raga. In due course people explained how the original sound 'Om' gave rise to the various notes.

“To Have Faith In God Should Be The Easiest Thing In The World, Yet It Appears To Be The Most Difficult.”

It is understanding that Indian raga music was at one time entirely spiritual, and is a highly-developed technology for entraining consciousness into the higher realms. However, it has became somewhat debased over the centuries and some of its performance appeals to the lower nafs.The music of India is one of the oldest unbroken musical traditions in the world. The origin of Indian classical music goes back to the Vedic times, when the Rishi (Hindu saints), deep in meditation, would contemplate different sound vibrations and tonal patterns and the effects it has on consciousness. In later times, temple priests would chant Vedic shlokas (verses) to certain ragas (melodic modes) in the temples.

“All human activity is or should be directed towards the realization of the self and in this self-realization lies hidden god-

realization.”

Indian music is a living thing. There is a loose structure for the musicians to follow and the rest is improvised in the moment. Thus the performance is a more of a creation that creates an experience of presence and meditation for the listener. Thus Indian music is more of a spiritual experience rather than just mere entertainment for the enjoyment of the senses.If music is completely based on spirituality with a root deep meaning of an supreme god, it is nothing but takes an individual deeply within his/her conciousness to realize that actually god is within our soul. Music just creates a strong relationship with divinity and so Indian music has its origin in spirituality.

HOW TO EXPERIENCE INDIAN MUSIC?The best way to experience Indian music is to attend a concert. There are Indian music concerts in most metropolitan cities. It is also recommended to get recordings from the maestros of each instrument:• Sitar: Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, Viliyat Khan• Sarod: Ali Akbar Khan, Amjad Ali Khan• Santoor: Shivkumar Sharma, Satish Vyas• Bansuri flute: Hariprasad Chaurasia• Mohan veena: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt• Vocal: Kishori Amonkar(female), Bhimsen Joshi(male),

Pandit Jasraj (male)“Forget the harm done by others to you, Forget the good

done by you to others.”

MUSIC QUOTES AND SAYINGS

“Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music.”

-Carlos Santana“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life .”

-Berthhold Auerbach

“We get what we deserves not what we desires.”

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind flight to the imangination and life to everything

-Plato

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