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The Only Music Playing
Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet, but psychologically we are not capable. We are not peaceful, enlightened or awake enough to do it.
~ Thich Nhat Hahn
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Friend, do not enter this dance floor if you do not want to do this sacred dance. Everyone here is losing their minds so they can remember their souls. And the only music playing is Love.
~ Jaiya John — ‘Fragrance After Rain’
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In Arabia there is a story told that when God created the body of the first human, God commanded the soul to enter the body, and the soul refused to enter, saying that it seemed to it a prison, that it would not enter this prison. Then God asked the angels to sing and dance; and as the soul heard music it was moved to ecstasy, and in that ecstasy it entered the physical body.
The Hindus have a science called “Mantra Yoga” which means union with the cosmos through sound. Repetition of the divine word produces union in a state of sobriety, but when sung the words cause ecstasy and intoxication.
The Sufis, especially those of the Mevlevi and Chisti schools have made use of proper music to produce the state of ecstasy and thus aid the soul to rise above the bounds of materialism and limitation.
