Can Music be Admitted as a Part of Life of Yoga?
Art, poetry, music, as they are in their ordinary functioning,
create mental and vital, not spiritual values; but they can be turned
to a higher end, and then, like all things that are capable of linking
our consciousness to the Divine, they are transmuted and become
spiritual and can be admitted as part of a life of yoga. All takes
new values not from itself, but from the consciousness that uses
it; for there is only one thing essential, needful, indispensable,
to grow conscious of the Divine Reality and live in it and live
it always.
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