
www.gurukul.org music is not for entertainment, it is not fashionable, not image saturated, and it transcends all of that. It came before all modern nonsense. The modern world has tried to seep into the music and turn it a certain way, but Indian musicians keep it very traditional, the way they learned it. It is for your body, mind and soul, and one of the things that is great about all the masters living , and there are not many living these days, is that they are able to be open channels for love and compassion to come through them. I think it is karma based. You are born with this gift to some extent and then it is up to you to harness that ability and I think he has worked his entire life to do that to the level of mastery where he can leave his body or consciousness while he is playing, letting the music flow through him, so that he is a listener too, without effort, that is what mastery is, to be an open channel, and I hope that one day I can do that too. My grandfather used to say that you play and devote yourself so much to the ragas that you forget the time of day, your surroundings, the place you are in, your name, everything. You completely surround yourself with the raga, to reach a higher consciousness, a higher realization, and enlightenment through music. In order to achieve that, the music has to be very pure. The emphasis has to be on real pitch, rhythm, tuning. It is a whole different level that many people miss today, especially with junk music today <b>...</b>
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