Question: Guru, When You Want To Express...

Question: Guru, when you want to express the divine music of the Beyond, do you feel that the instruments that you play—such as esraj and flute—convey properly what you want to convey?

Sri Chinmoy: No, they do not. Sometimes when I am playing my old songs, the tune is extremely soulful, but inside the soulful songs there is another melody which I am hearing—an inner melody which is infinitely sweeter, clearer and more beautiful. But I am unable to bring it out on the esraj. Sometimes I am playing so well, but inside the tune that I am playing, I am hearing the same tune in an infinitely sweeter and infinitely more delicate form which the instrument I am playing cannot express.