Download Maharishi quotes on sound and music

Maharishi quotes on sound and music:
Music originates where Unity starts to swing in the bliss of its own unbounded
existence.
The purpose of music is to connect the song of individual life with the song of the
Creator.
Every level of creation is a frequency. One frequency melts into the other, and this is
how the process of evolution takes place.
Sound is the infinite dynamism within infinite silence.
Shruti, the primordial sound, is the silent reverberation of consciousness, eternally
humming within itself.
Shruti is the scintillating light of Creative Intelligence, heard as sound.
Form is sound, sound is form. Form is physiology; sound is that which structures
physiology.
As consciousness perceives its own manifestation, it engages the self-referral process of
evolution by initiating a sequential unfoldment of sounds.
Music is coherent frequencies—some different, some the same, many values of
frequency or sound—and coherence in sound makes a melody. The whole universe, all
the infinite number of items in the universe, are all different frequencies or sounds, and
there is a swing of bliss everywhere in nature.
The value of a great piece of music is in its ability to cause the heart of the listener to
warm up and flow in those waves of consciousness.
The great musicians of all times are those who have been successful in inspiring a thrill
on the basic level of life — successful in awakening the silence in their audiences.
The universe we know to be an ever-expanding universe. The ever-expanding
mechanics of creation and evolution are all very rhythmical, are all very melodious, and
this rhythm and melody is the field of Gandharva.
Gandharva music is the music of the Vedic civilization. It is that style of melody which
matches with the swings of nature that control the passage of evolution in waves of bliss.
Gandharva music is the eternal melody of nature spontaneously sung in all levels of
creation, from the most minute to the huge, enormous, ever-expanding universe.
What is most intimate to life is the evolutionary process, the process of creation, the
performance of creative intelligence. When we hear music, we find that the background
of sound is maintained and the foreground of sound comes up — some sharp notes on
the background of some lull — maintaining the continuity of melody and binding together
in harmony the single notes that come up as waves on the silent bed of the ocean. This
is precisely the creative process. The wholeness of Being in its eternal silence warms up
and produces the background of the music of life, and on the foreground of Being spring
up the waves of relativity, waves of life. Each wave has a tendency to rise and fall, and
in this rise and fall is the progress of music. The music of life is the rise and fall of the
impulses of relativity on the background and foreground of eternal silence of the
Absolute. So music reminds us of what one is; it displays the story of life.
When one finds what one actually is, one is attracted to it. Whether one is aware of it or
not, the reality of life is found in music and therefore it is natural that music should have
a universal attraction.