“When you’ve seen beyond yourself-then you may find, peace of mind,
Is waiting there-
And the time will come when you see
We’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you”.
– “Within You Without You”, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatles, 1967 (lyrics: George Harrison)
Consciousness-Analogue
Music is the heart of the soul
Strings of sitar touching the feet of the Lord in things
It flows ubiquitously into the sea of void to touch the lapping silence of the light
In between all that, ‘this is that’ in him to be ‘it’ in that Malhar raga
The banks of Varanasi offering thy homage
To that divine inspiration that taught through the years
In that beautiful voyage in the 60s
Harrison, Yehudi, John and Phillip and all other distinct faces of the time
Carrying that boat on the river within them to light the last source of the sun
So tomorrow is a brighter day for those who travel into other worlds
The hidden spark of the Brahman giving wisdom from the depths of consciousness
To create that aura of undying music
Not for once – but again and again
To be retold in the past coming back from the future
So we live with it as our very own – connecting with it
As music flows like thy peace melting bondage into paradise
Chanting the numbers of future explorations
For a beautiful world to be won in peace.
– Joy Roy Choudhury