Let music absorb you

Satsang means the company of reality, being in touch with the truth. It is not just singing some complicated songs which you don’t understand. Music is one part of it.

The second part is understanding the logic. The third part is reposing in deep meditation and being with yourself. So which is the right company? That which makes you feel light, which makes you feel the problem is very trivial as compared to what you thought.

That is no satsang which makes you perceive an exaggerated view of the problem. It is where you can drop what people think about you and be authentic.

Usually, people who are in celebration don’t go into the depth, while people who experience silence, don’t usually celebrate. However, satsang is when we value both silence and celebration.

The purpose of music is to create silence deep within you and the purpose of silence is to create dynamism in life.

Music is ‘Laya Yoga.’ Laya is dissolving. This is the highest form of Samadhi (unity with the Divine). Sound is a form of energy. Your whole body is made up of atoms.

When you sing bhajans, the sound energy vibration gets absorbed into every particle of your body. Just like a microphone absorbs sound and converts it into electricity, the body absorbs the vibrations and converts it into consciousness.

If you are sitting and listening to gossip or violent music, then that gets absorbed by your body and does not give a nice feeling. When you hear the Knowledge, or chant with all your heart, that elevates your consciousness.

So, when you sit in satsang your entire body gets soaked in energy and transformation happens. Being with this truth kindles the energy in you and brings up the consciousness because the sound energy very easily penetrates into the mind.

The body is made up of five elements - earth, water, air, fire and ether. The nature of ether is sound. And sound unites. Sound reverberates in the entire space of your body. That is how the mind and consciousness gets formed.