Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything.
It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful,
of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate,
and eternal form.

The essence of sacred knowledge is word and sound,
and the essence of word and sound is OM.

Our tradition teaches us that sound is God - "Nada Brahma". That is, musical sound
and the musical experience are steps to the realization of the self. We view music
as a kind of spiritual discipline that raise one's inner being to divine peacefulness
and bliss. We are taught that one of the fundamental goals a Hindu works toward in his
lifetime is a knowledge of the true meaning of the universe-its unchanging, eternal
essence-and this is realized first by a complete knowledge of one's self and one's own
nature. The highest aim of our music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects,
and the ragas are among the means by which this essence can be apprehended.
Thus, through music, one can reach God.

The heart at the center of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness
into every artery, vein and veinlet, so that the whole system is inundated with tides of joy
The plenty of the poorest place is too great; the harvest cannot be gathered.
Every sound ends in music. The edge of every surface is tinged with prismatic rays.