The Perfect Tuning of Mind And Body
The object of Indian music is the training of the mind and the
soul, for music is the best way of concentration. When you tell
a person to concentrate on a certain object, the very fact of trying
to concentrate makes his mind more disturbed. But music, which attracts
the soul, keeps the mind concentrated. If one only knows how to
appreciate it and give one’s mind to it, keeping all other
things away, one naturally develops the power of concentration.
Besides the beauty of music, there is the tenderness, which brings
life to the heart. For a person of fine feelings, of kindly thought,
life in the world is very trying. It is jarring, and it sometimes
has a freezing effect. It makes the heart, so to speak, frozen.
In that condition one experiences depression, and the whole of life
becomes distasteful. The very life, which is meant to be heaven,
becomes a place of suffering.
If one can focus one’s heart on music, it is just like warming
something that was frozen. The heart returns to its natural condition,
and the rhythm regulates the beating of the heart, which helps to
restore health of body, mind, and soul, and bring them to their
proper tuning. The joy of life depends upon the perfect tuning of
mind and body.
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