By following the Upanisads and setting a place for ourselves in solitude, music and the connection to nature and God grows strong.
Gazing at the stars and becoming one with the energy that created all this, music flows through us, the Upanisads teaches us the way to lose all the false ideas and gives us the truth.
Music requires a discipline that we spend time alone with our instrument in order to play the instrument. This is along the same path as the Upanisads. When we experience being alone, in a place that is in the forest, as recommended in the Upanisads, we become consciously part of that environment, the stars, the moon, the deep red setting sun, the dust of the path of the earth, and the bright colours of the butterfly, the perfume of wild flowers and the movement of insects and animals, the sound of the beating drum and all the past and present emotions that we feel. Fear and joy and peace.
We play the music of Bach, Mozart, Elgar and Schostakowitsch and others and all that we experience from the wild forest and the space and stars at night become one with the music, the vulnerability of being human within the wilderness area of the wild forest, all this comes through the performers music, music and the elements are together.
We play a phrase from the Elgar violin concerto and then in our minds we see the beautiful colours of an Indian butterfly, we play a phrase from another great composer like Schostakowitsch and we see a memory in our minds of the struggle of human beings.
Peace comes to us when we become alone with the larger elements like gazing at the clear night stars, and connecting to the space around and above us, and also connecting to the space within our own body, it is one and the same space, this then on its own develops into a joy which seems to arrive from nowhere. By developing this independence we become connected to the highest God that is our true connection.
Our strength comes through our music having spent time alone in that peaceful place in the wild forest where we have taken and absorbed the texts of the Upanisads, then we gather all our experiences and let everything settle, then we find the stilling of our mind and finally we gain a deep comfort and connection to God within us and positive energy. This can seriously be done by creating a special place in solitude.
Time spent reading the texts of the Upanisads, practicing music and purifying ourselves is our love for the divine and a comfort for our mind and soul.
By setting periods of time in solitude throughout our lives we gain an inner strength and we find an internal joy, it is then something that we always return to, a place that we always return to. By learning to break the attachments to everything (in the material world) we make the attachment to a greater positive energy that is actually within our own selves. We can only discover this by learning to be independent and taking steps to being (physically) alone. We start this at the beginning just by being alone for short periods then we develop this for longer periods. This is an ongoing process which continues throughout our lives.
"Then there is the method of practice called the six-limbed yoga: restraint of the breath, withdrawal, meditation, thinking, concentration. When, seeing by this, one sees him, coloured like a gold piece, the maker, the powerful one, the person, womb of brahman, then knowing him one leaves behind good and evil and makes all one in the highest unfailing". Maitri Upanisad Book 6 verse 18.