India’s Classical Music

India’s classical music is so high in consciousness. There is no comparison between India’s classical music and the Western world’s jazz and rock and roll. If you study a very serious subject, naturally others may not even understand it. Appreciation is limited. In the Western world, India’s classical music is limited, very limited, in how it is appreciated. What is more painful, the Western world’s jazz and rock and roll, the music of the vital world, has covered the length and breadth of India.

Even in India, I think our classical music is not as popular as Western jazz and rock and roll. In terms of depth and height, Western music is no match for India’s classical music. If one wants to get inner experiences, higher experiences, if one wants to be at God’s Feet, India’s classical music will stand far above, absolutely first. About other music, what can I say? One is a rainbow. The other is thunder, thunder, thunder. We know how many people like thunderbolts. But the rainbow gives hope, promise, new life, while thunder smashes the life that we already have.

This is my personal opinion. When I am gone, long after I am gone, then you can share my opinion. We deal with this side, that side. On one side it is all thunder, absolutely thunder-friends. Flute-friends, rainbow-friends, how many do we have? How many Ravi Shankars do we have with us, in our spiritual family?

From:Sri Chinmoy,Only One Reality Sri Chinmoy, Agni Press, 2025
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