Osho's perspective on Music
When Osho Spoke About Music
Passages from the discourses where this theme comes alive.
Can music be set to OM?
Yes, yes. It can certainly be done. Music can be set to OM—music can be set to anything. But the effect on you will not be because of OM. The effect on you will be due to the harmony of the notes. Whatever the music, it is the rhythmic consonance between two notes that impacts you. Whether it says OM or anything else makes no difference; that has nothing to do with it. What matters is that the impact of the notes upon the psyche be rhythmic. That’s all—rhythmicity is music. What you sing—whether a film song or a bhajan—does not matter. It is that rhythmicity which influences your mind. This too I call only an apparent peace. It is not peace. It is not peace. But a person who sits chanting OM, OM, OM is, poor fellow, in what one would call a psychoneurotic state. He is in a…
प्रश्न: तो संगीत ओम पर लाया जा सकता है क्या?
हां, हां। बिलकुल लाया जा सकता है। ओम पर लाया जा सकता है। किसी भी चीज पर लाया जा सकता है। तुम पर जो परिणाम होगा, वह ओम का नहीं होने वाला है। तुम पर जो परिणाम होगा वह तो स्वरों की जो हार्मनी है, उसका होने वाला है। संगीत कुछ भी हो। उसमें जो दो स्वरों के बीच जो लयबद्धता है उसका तुम पर परिणाम होगा। वह चाहे ओम कहे, चाहे कुछ भी कहे इससे कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता। इससे तुम्हारा संबंध नहीं है। तुम्हारा संबंध तो यह है कि चित्त पर स्वरों का जो आघात हो रहा है, वह आघात लयबद्ध होनी चाहिए। बस लयबद्धता संगीत है। तुम उससे क्या गा रहे हो, फिल्मी गाना गा रहे हो कि भजन गा रहे हो, इससे कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता। लयबद्धता उसकी तुम्हारे चित्त को प्रभावित करती है। इसको भी मैं आभासिक शांति ही कह रहा हूं। यह शांति नहीं है। यह शांति नहीं है। लेकिन एक आदमी जो बैठ कर ओम, ओम, ओम जप रहा है, वह तो बेचारा अत्यंत ही जिसको कहें साइको-न्यूरोटिक हालत में है। वह तो उस हालत में है जहां उसकी चिकित्सा, इलाज होना चाहिए। बहुत बुरी हालत में है। …
The second question you have asked is: You are a musician—how to master music while remaining aware? Or, how to develop awareness and music side by side?
This is a slightly intricate matter. Because when you lose yourself in music, awareness will be forgotten. When you become totally absorbed in music, who will be left to be aware? And when you are aware, the music will shatter and fall apart. In trying to join two opposing things, you will land yourself in difficulty. There will be a lot of strain and inner tug-of-war. Choose any one thing; it is enough. Riding two boats is not good; riding two horses is not good. Try all you want—there will be danger. Music is enough; dive in utterly. Dive in so totally that you no longer even know there is a musician—only music remains. And the doors of the divine will open. It has many doors. It is a good fortune that it doesn’t have only one big gate; otherwise there would be a great crowd. It would be a…
दूसरा प्रश्न तुमने पूछा है कि तुम संगीतज्ञ हो, जागरूक रह कर संगीत को कैसे साधो। या जागरूकता और संगीत को साथ-साथ कैसे विकसित करो।
यह थोड़ा जटिल मामला है। क्योंकि जब तुम संगीत में खो जाओगे तो जागरूकता भूल जाएगी। जब तुम लीन हो जाओगे संगीत में तो कौन बचेगा जागरूक होने को? और जब तुम जागरूक होओगे तो संगीत टूट-फूट जाएगा। तो तुम दो विरोधी चीजों को जोड़ने की कोशिश में मुश्किल में पड़ जाओगे। बहुत ऐंचातानी हो जाएगी। कोई भी एक बात चुन लो, पर्याप्त है। दो-दो नावों पर सवार होना अच्छा नहीं है, दो घोड़ों पर सवार होना अच्छा नहीं है। लाख उपाय करो, खतरा होगा। संगीत पर्याप्त है, डूब जाओ पूरे। इतने डूब जाओ कि तुम्हें पता ही न रहे कि कोई संगीतज्ञ भी है; संगीत ही रह जाए। और परमात्मा के द्वार खुल जाएंगे। उसके अनेक द्वार हैं। सौभाग्य है कि उसका एक ही द्वार नहीं है बड़ा, अन्यथा बड़ी भीड़ हो जाती। …
Beloved Osho, the other night, I was very touched by the singing of the indian swami who sings before discourse. I felt as if he were playing me like a musical instrument. I felt like a big ear, just listening. Most other music I hear basically amounts to noise -- it's entertaining, but it doesn't touch me. What is it about his music and the music of all those musicians who touch something inside us, that helps us to fly?
Music is born out of deep experiences of meditation; it is a dimension of meditation. By meditating, you may be able to be touched by music, but the reverse is also true: If you are totally absorbed in music, your heart will be touched not only by music but by meditation too. Music is sound. Meditation is soundlessness. The highest music is where the sound does not destroy the soundless moments in between. As the musician becomes more and more refined, he can manage to create sound, and between two sounds he can give you an experience of soundlessness. That soundlessness touches the heart. In the East, music has always been part of meditation. Temples have been full of music and dance. Ashok Bharti loves me. His music is just a communication of his love. He pours himself totally into it. The same is happening with the other sannyasin musician…
Beloved Osho, when I'm not near you physically, music seems to be the easiest way to feel your love. Sometimes, listening to classical music, it touches me so deeply that there comes a moment when I feel I cannot take in more joy. Suddenly I remember you, and all the excitement falls into a greater depth, more calm, silent, soothing. Now there is no more boundary to joy... And so much gratitude.
"You have beautiful instruments and you have beautiful art, but your heart is not in the music; it is in defeating somebody. And unless you drop that idea you will never be equal to Tansen. He has no idea to defeat anybody, that's why he goes on winning." It was very difficult for Baiju Bawara to get rid of the desire, because that was the desire through which he had devoted his whole life to music. But if the master said so, then it was better to wait. He forgot all about Tansen, slowly slowly. And once, when Haridas became very old, be became sick; and he had a kind of paralysis of the legs, so he could not go from his small cottage to the nearby Krishna temple. And without seeing Krishna, he would not eat anything. Many physicians tried to treat him. They could not do anything. Baiju…
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