Raag and Taal

I'm sorry, I think I won't finish the last posting... but I will summarize - vrindavan was completely different. beautiful, amazing, everything happening with exquisite perfection. Pete is finishing a book about... krishna? the next stage - manjuri bhav where we will all experience the state of the eternal vibration of dissipation/creation... a brilliant theory, I will explain someday maybe. but he lives now in a divine play, a krishna lila... seeing everything as part of this one motion... amazing and true.

and about that... music...

Music is a perfect example of how we may be in unity and duality together... seeing all the whales and calling them the ocean. In indian music, every scale (raag) and every beat (taal) is part of the cosmos - you are creating all the colors of the heart. every color. but colors only have emotional meaning in relationship, as does everything. sometimes it is hard to pay attention to this music because it is a bit boring, but when you are learning it you realize that it really is painting your heart - each note you ride, you become... you feel things, all things, with intense sense of beauty... and that is how the universe is - all the colors are beautiful, you just have to let them all paint in your heart - feel them deeply and musically.

And I'm not even being that figurative here... you really do feel this music (maybe all music) in your heart, all the notes in different ways, all flavors of love.

And stop worrying, you worriers. India is Amazing...