Gong Synthesizer 22 June 2006

Sri Chinmoy is an extraordinary musician… take his gong synthesizer performance at a concert offered in Philadelphia on June 22, 2006, for example. How much can you do with a gong? There is no melody. It is an instrument of indeterminate pitch, for each time you strike it, all kinds of harmonics are produced.

Yet Sri Chinmoy finds a way, an inner way if you will, to transmit his spirituality through music, whether it is playing a tender melody or striking a gong. If we listen carefully, we will notice small variations in the gong sound as Sri Chinmoy plays it. But, also, Sri Chinmoy is able to infuse the sound with his dynamic energy, with his inner intensity, which comes from his deep love for God and humanity.

I remember clearly reading in one of Sri Chinmoy’s books, many years ago, that in dynamic action there can be a flood of peace, and that in meditation (which for some is an inaction, or the act of being inwardly still) there can be tremendous dynamic energy. In the same way that in a seed there is a tree, in that same way when we meditate, the seed of creation is blossoming, wanting to become a tree laden with fruits to offer to mankind.

Sri Chinmoy strives to serve mankind through music, art, literature and other fields, trying to manifest the unlimited potential of the human spirit.

We are grateful to Sri Chinmoy for this most soulful and illumining offering.

Kamalakanta Nieves
June 2006