Soulful Versus Vital Music
The music from the soul wants to express and fulfil itself
through the heart. But here a problem arises. When the soul
starts to play its music in the heart, the doubting mind does
not allow the heart to listen. Then gradually the vital becomes
more powerful than the pure heart.
The music of the lower vital destroys our subtle nerves and
wants to devour the heart's divine qualities. The vital has
been predominant in the world for quite a few years. But lower
vital music will not always predominate on earth. The world
also has a soul. Eventually, the music of the soul will replace
the music of the vital. Today the vital is nourished and the
soul is starving. But when there are more aspiring people
than unaspiring people on earth, naturally the inner, soul-elevating
music will replace the music of the impure, unlit and obscure
vital.
Musicians should give something new; they should give the
world music that comes directly from the soul, music that
will help humanity raise its consciousness - not the things
that have been known for many, many years, but the things
that people have never seen or felt or heard.
Vital music played its role, especially in the Western hemisphere.
But this kind of music is not the soul's music. The soul's
music is something totally different. The world will eventually
appreciate, admire and adore that music.
Music is of God and for God, not of the vital world and for
the vital world. Real music, divine music, takes you back
to God, the Supreme Musician.
There are two aspects of the vital. There is the dynamic
vital and the tempting and tempted vital. The vital that is
energised in a pure way - the vital that is trying to elevate
the consciousness of those around it - is absolutely necessary.
This kind of eagerness, enthusiasm and dynamism is very good.
But there is another kind of vital that also has dynamic energy
but that brings the consciousness low, lower, lowest. Easily
your mind and your heart can see the difference. If you want
to make a comparison between music that comes from the dynamic
vital and music that comes from the tempting or tempted vital,
easily you can see the difference. From this other kind of
music, you may get enthusiasm, but it is not the pure enthusiasm
that will elevate your consciousness or spiritual life. While
you are in that world of music, you will notice your consciousness
going down, or you will find that it has gone down.
So you have to see what kind of vital energy the music has
- whether it is taking you upward or bringing you downward.
You have to be the judge
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