Inner music: The Divine Music Within Us

By SANT RAJINDER SINGH JI MAHARAJ

Divine music, when you experience it, brings with it intense and lasting bliss. How can one who has heard this divine melody describe it to one who has not?

Anyone who attempts to describe it would have to use pale analogies. If we think of the most beautiful music we have ever heard in this world, it still does not compare with the music known as the Voice of God.

The divine music is playing within us all the time. We dont hear it because no one has shown us the way to listen to this inner music.

There is reference to this inner music in the scriptures.

This sound has been called the Word in the Bible, naad, jyoti and shruti in the Hindu scriptures, sraosha in the Zoroastrian scriptures, kalma in the Muslim scriptures, sonorous light in the Buddhist scriptures, naam or shabd by the Sikhs, and the Theosophists call it the voice of silence. It is the power of God manifesting in creation.

When God decided to create, this thought emanated as two principles: Light and Sound. The current of divine light and music was the cause of all creation. This current flows out from God and also returns to God. We can access this current within us through Shabd meditation.

Why is the divine music different from worldly music? First, the music of the Lord is not made by any instrument. It is a melody that reverberates from God. So, it is the source of all outer music.

Outer music is but a reflection of Gods inner music. Second, the music of the Lord is like a magnetic current that elevates the soul into the spiritual realms beyond. Once we contact that sound, we are enabled to rise far above from mere body-consciousness.

That sound fills us with indescribable ecstasy. We become so intoxicated that every pore of our being cries out in ecstasy.

The holy name has the power to lift our soul above body-consciousness to travel through inner realms.

The scriptures of the East describe various planes of existence. These descriptions are not to be dismissed as mere mythology. They are actual regions that we can experience in this very lifetime.

We are all children of one God. The Name or Word is available to all. God has made the gift of the Light and Sound available to all who want it, regard-less of which religious denomination one belongs to.

Similarly, there is no distinction of colour or class, qualifications or status. The divine path to liberation is open and accessible to all, equally.

Once we awaken to the Music of the Lord, our life will be the same Ñ but only on the surface. We will still have the same job, the same family, the same house, and the same body, but a whole new inner life will open up for us.

To everyone else we will look the same, but inwardly we will be lost in the ecstasy of Gods love. We will ultimately attain our merger in God. To outer eyes, no one will know we are in communion with the Lord.

They will see the same person they always knew. But inwardly, we will know that we are more than just this body. We will have identified with our soul, we will connect with the Light and Sound of God, and we will experience spiritual realms beyond the here and now.

Finally, we will achieve total union with the divinity, and experience bliss, love, light and music.

(The writer is head of the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission headquartered in Delhi. The mission encourages discussions on the science of spirituality.)