How music can serve listeners’ spiritual progress – Sadhguru (Cyprus)

In this video, yogi and mystic Sadhguru elaborates on the sounds whose frequencies lie beyond the limited range of human ears, but which are audible to people in advanced spiritual states.

“What we refer to as music is a more refined arrangement of these sounds that creation is already making,” he says, and “Indian classical music particularly comes from a very deep understanding of the human system because all our experience of life is essentially happening within us.

“Light and darkness is happening within us. Sound and silence is happening within us. Joy and misery is happening within us. Agony and ecstasy is happening within us.

“Every human experience happens only within ourselves, never outside of ourselves, because we are the basis of our experience,” the Isha Foundation head says.

“Because of this, [Indian classical] music identified certain dimensions of the body which are responsive to the sounds that we generate, or the sounds that come towards us.”

Hence, the function of such music is to engage with and activate listeners’ energy centres – their chakras – leading to “a natural evolution of the human being to a higher level of consciousness”.

“So, music has never been just a form of entertainment,” says Sadhguru. “It has been a way of evolving an individual human being into a universal entity” – a process known as ‘Nada Yoga’.

“If one listens to music with the necessary involvement, or one involves themselves in the process of what we are referring to as the classical music, it is not just about pleasantness of the body, it is not just about the pleasantness of emotion that one goes through.

“It is a way; it is a method to move out of compulsive cycles of life and transcend those cycles to achieve an ultimate process of freedom and liberation.”