Music Unites Man to God
There is nothing in this world which can help one spiritually more
than music. Meditation prepares, but music is the highest for touching
perfection.
No part of the world, East or West, can really deny the divinity
of music. In the first place, music is the language of the soul.
And for two people of different nations or races to unite there
is no better means than music. For music not only unites man to
man, but man to God. Now, the question comes: when is it that music
unites man with God, and how? Belief in God has two aspects. One
belief in God is when a person thinks, ‘Perhaps there is a
God,’ or ‘As others believe, I believe too.’ He does
not know God by reason nor does he see God before him. God for him
is perhaps in heaven. Whether He exists or does not exist, he does
not know. And from one who has just this kind of belief, a little
confusion or disappointment or injustice takes it away. If is for
this reason that thousands and thousands of men who worshipped God
gave up their belief in Him.
There is another aspect of belief. It is gained through the realization
of God’s presence, not only in the heavens, but in one’s
own surroundings. When a person arrives at this point, this belief
becomes a living identity. To him God is not only a judge or a sustainer.
To him, He is a friend who hears the cry of his soul in the solitude,
and knows the best and greatest secret he has in his heart. A Friend
upon whom one can always rely in good and bad experiences, and even
in the hereafter. For a musician, music is the best way to unite
with God. A musician with a belief in God brings to God the beauty
and perfume and the colour of his soul.
From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch
the formless except the art of music, which in itself is formless.
There is another point of view: that the innermost being of man
is the Akasha, which means capacity. Therefore, all that is directed
from the external world to the world within can reach this realm,
and music can reach it best. A third point of view is that all creation
came from vibrations, which the Hindus have called Nada. In the
Bible, we can find it as the Word, which came first of all. On this
point all the different religions unite. Man, therefore, loves music
more than anything else. Music is his nature, it has come from vibrations
and he himself is vibration.
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