Music is behind the working of the whole universe. Music is not only life’s greatest object, but it is life itself. Sound is the force of creation: the true whole. Music then becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness, and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing. What science cannot declare art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations, indeed knows all things. In ancient times, the greatest of the prophets were great musicians. The mystery of sound is mysticism. The harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics. The analysis of atoms is science. And their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts, and the science of all sciences, and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.
Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality, the whole of creation is music. And what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm. Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe. What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music. Our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music. We as adults think that we appreciate music, but if we realize the sense that infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and rhythm of its own. Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of their particular part in the music. There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. Or the tragedy in the world in the individual, and in the multitude comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is best given by producing harmony in one’s own life. Each individual composes the music of their own life. If they injure another, they bring disharmony. When their sphere is disturbed, they are disturbed themselves, and there is a discord in the melody of their life.
If one can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much they add to their own life, and become, by that, much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, one’s thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another; and one’s power and vitality increase thereby. And the music of one’s life grows more in harmony. Music is the language of the soul. And for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music. There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul. A person does not hear sound only through the ears; one hears sound through every pore of the body: it permeates our entire being. My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires. The person who is in tune with the universe becomes like a radio receiver through which the voice of the universe is transmitted. When I open my eyes to the outer world, I feel myself as a drop in the sea; but when I close my eyes and look within - I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart. To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being. The whole of life is as music. And in order to study life, we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes us perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable, or wretched, or distressed — my answer will be that they are out of tune.
Music touches our innermost being. And in that way produces new life. A life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of one’s life. There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets - continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything. Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.