Selected performances by students of Sri Chinmoy from New York, Winter 2011-2012
Selected Performances by Sri Chinmoy Students – NY- Winter 2011-2012
Last modified February 1, 2012
Dear listeners, we would like to share with you some performances from our group meditations at Aspiration-Ground, New York. These are informal presentations in which local musicians and singers, both individually and in groups, offer their soulful interpretations of Sri Chinmoy‘s music. We find these musical offerings helpful for our group meditations.
Sri Chinmoy composed and performed thousands of his own devotional songs, and talked extensively about the role of music in the spiritual life. Here is a question and answer from the book “God the Supreme Musician”.
Question: What is the relationship between music and meditation?
Sri Chinmoy: “Music is the inner or universal language of God. I do not know French or German or Italian, but if music is played, immediately the heart of the music enters into my heart, or my heart enters into the music. At that time, we don’t need outer communication; the inner communion of the heart is enough. My heart is communing with the heart of the music and in our communion we become inseparably one.
Meditation and music cannot be separated. When we cry from the inmost recesses of our heart for Peace, Light and Bliss, that is the best type of meditation. We cannot meditate twenty-four hours a day, but we can meditate, say, for two hours a day. Then we can play music or we can listen to music for a couple of hours a day. Next to meditation is music. But it has to be soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness. When we play soulful music, psychic music, then immediately we are transported to the highest realm of consciousness. When we play music soulfully, we go high, higher, highest.
Each time soulful music is played, we get inspiration and delight. In the twinkling of an eye, music can elevate our consciousness. But if we also pray and meditate, then we are undoubtedly more illumined and fulfilled than a music lover who is not consciously following a spiritual life. Each spiritual musician is consciously spreading God’s Light on earth. God is the cosmic Player, the eternal Player, and we are His instruments. But there comes a time in the process of our evolution when we feel that we have become totally one with Him. At that time, we are no longer instruments; we ourselves are musicians, divine musicians. It is the Supreme who makes the proper instrument. Then, it is He who makes the player play properly, and it is He who makes the musician.”
http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/books/0168/2/19
We hope you enjoy these soulful offerings.
– Kamalakanta Nieves
