Piano: Peace inside Power

When I perform, when I play on the piano, the Supreme in me creates many worlds – small worlds, big worlds, beautiful worlds, powerful worlds, soulful worlds. Inside these worlds, while I am playing, I clearly see mountains, trees, rivers, oceans, paddy fields – everything in those worlds. After about 10 seconds or not even 10 seconds, a new world comes. God knows how many worlds are created, created not by me, but by the Supreme in and through me. Sometimes in 5 seconds, 10 seconds or 15 seconds a new world comes, and each new world is beautiful, full of beauty and power.

It is like my painting. When I paint quickly, the worlds are also being created quickly and new worlds come. Then what happens at the very end of my piano performance, when I am about to end, I see all the worlds on the piano that have been created. While I am playing powerfully, I am not thinking of these worlds. Only the Supreme wants to show me that inside the power of the music is tremendous peace. People may think I am striking the keys powerfully with exhilaration, with no rhyme or reason. But inside the spontaneous loud sound, I clearly see peace, peace, peace. The audience may feel it is powerful and dynamic, but inside that sound my mind sees peace.

You can call it rhythmic or arhythmic, but there is peace inside the sound. I hope that you can feel the peace inside the sound. Outwardly the music can be dynamic and active, but inside I see peace, peace, peace. The music makes a change in the consciousness of the listener. After the exhilaration of energy, there comes a more pronounced peace, a palpable peace. The music listener is a participant in this creative experience of sound and silence, in the experience of music. Music can be used as a tool to change one’s consciousness.

20 February 2006 Malaysia

From:Sri Chinmoy,What Love-Power Can Do, Agni Press, 2022
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