On 19th of February 1876 the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi was born
Enlightened personality, he is most famous for the Târgu Jiu Ensemble, consisting in 3 pieces: The Gate of Kiss, The table of Silence and The Endless Column.
"Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them." , said the artist
Music is not just the expression of Bhakti. Music was created in Heaven before it was given to us. The entire Universe was created through the dance of the Goddess.Knowledge about music is just like knowledge in
spirituality. We think it took us very little to get the Self Realization, when
in reality it took us many lives, and we were watched carefully by Shri Mataji
in every step we made. But still, it took us months and to some even years to realize
who actually Shri Mataji is. And all these while the Kundalini energy was
increasing the strength in each of us. It took us years to give up bad practices, the
attachment to false knowledge and false gurus, to understand the falsehood of
the religious organizations of the world. It took years for some to even quit
cigarettes and alcohol, while the society never condemned “social drinking”. A
non-realized soul will read random books and articles.
For music, things work in the same manner. Yes,
music is for everyone, but everyone knows what music really is? Shri Mataji
advices the artists to keep the dignity of art. You can read here:
But people
don’t make a difference between ART and
entertainment, for both use sounds. They say: music should give joy. But
let’s see what joy is.
Can one
compare the joy from getting a present for your birthday and the one in the
deep meditation? Is the first one really joy, or just excitement?
Yes, this
is the confusion people make. They mistake joy with excitement, as they mistake
art with entertainment.
But, as in
spirituality, where it took us years in the physical presence of The Guru of
all Gurus to feel a little of the light we should achieve, also in music you
need a little exposure and education about the real classical music (Indian or
European), or in the traditional ones to understand what they are. By this
education you don’t become a musician, you don’t become a guru, not even a
disciple in Art, but an aware witness.
Unfortunately,
just like in spirituality, many people in order to get more money pretend to do
classical music, while in fact they defile it. And they play some light music (entertainment
zone) or execute out of any style and rule excerpts from classical composers “adjusted”
to pop culture. Names: Andre Rieu, Havasi, Richard Clayderman, Vanessa Mae, etc. Is this
making any service to classical music? Is this going to approach more people to
the world of enlightened musicians? Facts proved that, NO! Is this a work of a
false guru?
Yes. It is
the same manner in which some guy pretends to give Realization, while in fact
it takes your money and gives you troubles in evolution, the false gurus of
classical music give you bad taste. Is this that bad? Well, yes. Since the real
musicians won’t find anymore the place to live in this world. The whole artistic
world might collapse if not fed with our attention, care, love and
appreciation.
In Indian
music things are not going any better. All people know about the popularity of
Ravi Shankar. But was he a real exponent of Indian music or he gone to the easy
cheap way to gain more popularity and money? Also Shri Mataji spoke about this:
“They like
somebody like Ravi Shankar who just goes on mixing up notes and just goes on
playing something which is very, very unscientific according to Indians things,
and is not at all entertaining; it doesn’t open your heart and something like
that. But, that is the thing that appeals to them, to go into a big sort of a
rock and roll sort – make it, sitar into rock and roll, and even worse than
that. I don’t know the new, latest one I don’t know what it is.” Shri Saraswati
Puja, Vancouver (Canada), August 11th, 1990
Even when
he was young he was dedicated and that time Shri Mataji was very well impressed
by him. But…money and ego change everything.
Here I give you some samples of what classical
music is and what it is not:
Here is a
crime against childhood and music education. This little girl obviously has
talent, but in this way she will lose her voice by the age of 20
This is how children voices should be trained
like:
Maybe some
of you don’t notice the difference. It is slight for ears, huge for the music.
This is the
result of not exposing people to Classical music, they believe all impostors. How
these people get so famous while real musicians struggle so hard only to have
enough contracts so they can pay the bills and eat? It is a lot of marketing
for nothing at all. The problem is that it is not enough music education in the
real sense of the word and the entertainment's ugly head is mistakenly taken as
art. It is a big difference; even high spirits can have fun with art too. Only
most of the people never ever hear classical music, because nobody exposes them
to it. They are being served only cheap things. Cheap as value, expensive as
price
The shadows
of grey are much more dangerous than black. At least when it is black, you know.
And just what kind of marketing are doing these people? Havasi says he is the fastest pianist in the world....But music is not a race! What about Rieu? Rieu takes advantage of a tragedy (fire accident at Colective club in Bucharest) to promote his new CD. He comes to the place of tragedy, brings a Mafia-like mortuary bucket, and makes declarations in front of TV cameras while blubbering his nose (out of sadness, of course), that people can buy his new CD from Carrefour. How gross this can be?
To reach a
professional level in music need sacrifices and real work since early
childhood. A person who since 5-6 years works so hard and learns and knows what
is doing, must have love for music. Like Perlman, Menuhin, Debu Chauduri if
you want Indian....they love and they do music. Rieu loves and makes money. The
difference between Rieu and a ....musician is like the difference between Osho
and Shankaracharya
The value
of o a musician (and also of a person) is not determined of how well known is.
Let's take a very short example: very few people heard about William Blake, but
everybody knows who Hitler was. And he is quite popular in Asian countries as
well. Cheap popularity is not the aim of a musician, but the QUALITY of the
musical act itself.
Anca Elena
Ratiu, musician and sahaja yogini says: "the worst of these kinds of people is
that are living out of any Reality....and they use Sound just to glorify their
Ego and steel your money! But basically they do not exist!!! They are
completely out of any central vibrations of the Primordial Sound! They are in
the limbo of the Universe. And what is really said is that when we
professionally musicians condemn it, there are always other opinions!!!!!!!
"I LIKE IT" or "What is wrong with this music?"....PEOPLE
WILL NEVER EVER DISCUSS ANY OTHER PROFESIONIST, LIKE A MATHEMATICIAN, but they
will say "I like this music. Because they do not realize is nothing to be
liked there, because IS NOTHING THERE!....but they continue to like it in a
not-real world where they live together with this wrong vibration.....is a
simple think called "No-Music"!....and I will ask everyone here: DO
NOT CALLED IT MUSIC, because the word will loose his meaning...."
Someone
told once to me: you can do and say anything, people like what they like.
Really? In spreading Sahaja Yoga, we were first giving Self Realization, and
then taught how to talk to people, but also not to accept compromise.
I met once an Indian young man who told me “I
know Shri Mataji is divine, everybody in India knows this, but I chose Osho
for he gives me more freedom for my sexual life.” How can one react to such a statement? It is
not even of common sense! As absurd this statement looks to us, as absurd is to
stick to law level sound production, to entertainment, and not expose yourself to real music, being
it classical or traditional, or worse, to mistake classical music with the
massacre Rieu and Clayderman are doing.
Listen, go to concert halls, go to opera, go to
temples and hear the real music! If you will not do this, kitsch will suffocate
us.
