Music transcends time & space. It helps one compose the music of his life. It is a path to enlightenment.

Many people feel that enlightenment cannot be described in words. Could this be a myth? What if the words chosen to convey a point are viewless in the sense that while nothing well defined is communicated, the myriads of thoughts are still expressed? The demands of day-to-day living respect only the well defined stands that we take, but not the asymmetric notions which we wish to express. The benefits of music help us appreciate these notions. Emotion merges with thoughtful energies, giving us the musical or poetic experience. This is the enlightenment that I am talking about.

Music is not just an experience, but also enlightenment. It is not my wish to convey point of view that enlightenment. It is not my wish to convey a point of view that enlightenment is static. In fact, it is truly dynamic in that you grow in terms not expressible by time. Just imagine a location where there is no time, no space and no gravity, but just you. Just you and yourself to be with – an imperfection too graceful to be brought down to standard forms, enlightenment beyond thought – that’s what music is.

Listening to music is itself a form of self-induced therapy. If you experience it you wouldn’t wish to communicate it. You would long to express it in artistic forms. It may be in the form of music itself. Some say music is a journey; a few others say it is a trip to our sub-conscious world which we at the conscious level dare to face. For it is our true nature we face in the form of musical notes. The melody is so sweet that we don’t take into account what we are going through at the time of going through it.

Anything self-induced is self-sustained. We don’t bother about the limits of joy when we are in joy. It is the same with music. We don’t bother about when the song will come to an end. We just enjoy and relish the tune in the process, allowing music to take us to a semi-conscious state of existence or sleep! You like to be in a state of wonder, don’t you? If you could afford it you may say. It never happens at the expense of life. However limited space is, music can still encompass and fit inn without stress.

Music is the only phenomenon which survives time. If we were to know this musically we would compose our music of life. We would live in ecstatic heights of imagination. Nothing would stop us from blossoming into flowers of melodies. How wonderful that would be? A lovely song sung yesterday continues to appeal to us today. It will tomorrow also. It is precisely this nature of music that makes it survive time.

Any emotion can be expressed through music. Any thought can be expressed through music. It is how excessively romantic you are. Romance has its place in the dormant shells of talent that everyone possesses. If they are let out it is like letting our butterflies held captive in our stomach in the air. A release is worth the free flowing rivers demolishing dams of imprisonment. Music is freedom.. Freedom is enlightenment and music is in enlightenment.

By Swati Dhingra, askMamu.com