ON MUSICIAN AND MUSIC
‘The musicians are the messengers of Music, never are they the music-makers. Music is already made…’
Anything created must dissolve
someday, sometime: this is the law of nature. If Music were to be created by
us, the musicians, then it ought to have dissolved one day. But, Music has
never vanished; it is living timelessly. What has made it live timelessly?
One may say that, it is the beautiful workmanship of musicians and the
continuance of Guru-Shishya Parampara that has made it possible to live till
date. But what and who created this workmanship? The answer would be
obviously: from Guru(s), thoughts, experiences, contemplation. Who
created these experiences and contemplation? What made us think on Music and
experience it in a particular way(s)? Why do the thoughts and experiences
differ from one musician to another, and make the same piece of music be heard
differently from different musicians at different times and ages? One
may respond that it is all the matter of mental evolution and different ways of
unveiling beauty by different ideas of varied musicians who grasp varied
instructions (Vidya) from their
respective gurus. Then what is the source of such mental evolution? And why do the ideas
differ in musicians in beautifying it? The ideas differ because of many
factors like differences in personality, influences, teachings, learning-process,
cognitive ability, memory retention, experiences and also the differences in
the mindsets. And the source for such an evolution of different ideas, thoughts
and mental images is Music which makes us perceive it from different angles to
beautify it accordingly.
… Therefore,
we can sum up that Music is the source of Itself with no start or end – It is
the Almighty, Paramatma, Brahman, Atman, Soul,
Nadabrahma, Shakti, Energy, Melodious
Energy (Nada-roopi Shakti). It is the
cause for Its eternal living, It is ‘absolutely beautiful’ in Itself, It is the
Melodious Energy that is prevalently spread through musicians timelessly.
During the
primary stages of learning Music from the spiritual point-of-view, when we identify ourselves as the
‘music-students’ or ‘musicians’ (not yet
as ‘Music’), then we are only the manifestations of this vital Energy – never are
we the creators or makers of Music – we are only the messengers of Music who
are passing on the divine, beautiful message of Music from one soul to another
soul, and to the ‘Soul’ – in order to make Music more divine and beautiful. Music
is infinite in Itself with countless traits, personas and everything. We are
only the finite medium to ‘witness’ Its infiniteness, and we become the ‘medium’
to spread Its infinity to a certain, possible extent. As John Keats says in his
‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is
all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Music is Truth. So does
the prime responsibility of the musician lives every moment in preserving and
sustaining Its Beauty and Truth, and in being ‘just’ to Its Natural Formless
Form.
Nonetheless, with advancement in our
spiritual flight in Music, we can ‘become Music’ and ‘live eternally’ when we ‘self-realize’
and become ‘absolutely conscious’ that there is only One, Perfect Energy (Paramatama) living in the entire cosmos
while all the physical bodies, spirits, souls and other elements in the
universe are the mere, delusive manifestations of this Energy. We can become Music
when we seek the universal identity with this Melodious Energy, Music, and
never feel the line of separation between musician and Music. We can become
Music when we worship It perennially. It is only then we become Music spiritually and never identify ourselves
physically and mentally as ‘I’ and ‘the musician’ anymore. It is then we surrender to Music completely by
becoming Shoonya (Absolute Null),
attaining Moksha (Absolute Freedom)
and freeing ourselves permanently from egocentricity, physicality, physical
pleasure, covetousness, possessions, delusions of music-making and being the
musicians, and from the mere grammar-hunting in music (because though grammar
is music, music is not grammar). Thus, even after completely realizing and
becoming Music, ‘we’ are never the Music-makers as there do not exist ‘we’ and
‘I’ figures in Reality, but Music, and ‘Music’ alone, prevails in the Cosmos, the Universe.
“So, Music is made by Itself, It is the
Peace and Bliss in Itself”.
-
Protégée
Sep. 07, 2019
