Spiritual music and singing "The Invocation"¹⁹

Spiritual music is as good as meditation. Sri Chaitanya used to meditate and sing. Sri Ramakrishna always would meditate and sing, meditate and sing. Like that, many spiritual Masters used to meditate and sing. Spiritual music and songs are as good as the highest meditation. If you play music that is not spiritual, then the problem starts. But devotional music will never take you away from the path, from spirituality.

Every year at Christmas time, I am offering hundreds of new songs. And I sing every day between seventy and one hundred songs. Fifty-nine songs I sing at a stretch, and then again I sing at different times. There is not a single day that passes without my singing up to one hundred songs. I am telling you the truth! And every day I sing “The Invocation,” always. I wonder how many of you sing “The Invocation” daily? Alas, there are many who do not sing “The Invocation.” In my case, I play and sing.

Those who are not singing “The Invocation,” kindly do so every day by ten o’clock in the morning. That is our mantra. You do not have to carry the tune properly, as long as you know the words. You are invoking most soulfully and most seriously our Lord Beloved Supreme. Those who are not doing it regularly, kindly start doing it. Do not miss, do not miss. Whether you meditate or not, kindly sing “The Invocation.” And “The Invocation” has to be sung in front of your shrine.

Also, please sing “My Lord Beloved Supreme” every day. If you can sing both “The Invocation” and “My Lord Beloved Supreme” one after another, I will be very happy. By ten o’clock in the morning, please sing “The Invocation,” and if you cannot sing “My Lord Beloved Supreme” at that time, then during the day please sing it.

You do not have to be a good singer. Far from it! You can recite it.

I do not miss one day.