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TUNING THE KEYNOTE OF YOUR CHORD
This is the great evolutionary process. The God buried in humanity must be uncovered and placed on a throne in our hearts. The difficulty is that all, from atom to human being, are continually trying to fit into a place to which they belong. The upheaval of nature, the great unrest, the world revolutions, the shedding of bodies, and the separations and divisions among people - all these things are caused by the parts of the whole trying to stay in a place to which they do not belong. As soon as we are in our own place we have peace; until then we cannot have it. A world in the making can be likened to a great jigsaw puzzle whose separate parts have life and are capable of independent movement. Each part has its own particular place and its relation to every other part, and no thing or being can live to itself alone. But if things are in their wrong places, the hand of God must move them before the complete picture can be revealed. The way in which we can find our own place is to tune our instrument to the keynote of the chord to which we belong. Sound is the force which groups all things from atoms to worlds. The chording vibration sounds in our innermost being and can only be heard in silence. When we go into the inner chamber and shut the door to every sound that comes from the life without, then will the voice of God speak to our soul and we will know the keynote of our life. - HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN More by Hazrat Inayat Khan in this website: Afterward from this book "Spirituality of Music" Spirit and Sound Bibliography listing Khan's books and elsewhere on the Web... The Hazrat Inayat Khan home page This passage is the preface to the wonderful book "The Music of Life" by Hazrat Inayat Khan Hazrat Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order in the West, was born in India in 1882. A master virtuoso of Indian classical music by the age of twenty (Vina - a sitar-like instrument), he relinquished a brilliant career to devote himself to the spiritual path. For a decade and a half he travelled the world, giving lectures and guiding an ever-growing group of seekers. In 1926 he returned to India, where he died the following year. SpiritSound Collection Back to Page 2 SpiritSound Home Page |
In the beginning of a world all the matter which will eventually form a complete whole is already in existence, but in a state of chaos. It is not that any new thing or world or being is to be created, but that there shall be a rearrangement of all the parts until the whole is complete. The number and arrangement of every atom has yet to be made. Every electron and every atom of electricity must take its own appointed place in the mighty scheme.