Sri Chinmoy's songs and music all come from a deeply spiritual source. The following quotes from Sri Chinmoy perfectly describe the relationship between spirituality and music:
“When we listen to soulful music, or when we ourselves play soulful music, immediately our inner existence climbs up high, higher, highest. It climbs up and enters into something beyond. This beyond is constantly trying to help us, guide us, mould us and shape us into our true transcendental image, our true divinity. When we hear soulful music, or when we play a piece of soulful music, we feel a kind of inner thrill in our entire existence, from the soles of our feet to the crown of our head. A river is flowing through us, a river of consciousness, and this consciousness is all the time illumined.”
“If we can feel that
It is not our voice,
Not our fingers,
But some reality deep inside our heart
Which is expressing itself,
Then we will know that it is
The soul’s music.”
If you are interested in learning how to meditate the Sri Chinmoy Centre in England regularly organises meditation classes in the following cities:
Bristol
Cambridge
Cardiff
London
Oxford
Ananda often perform at these meditation classes.