How to use Art.

​Dear All,

Ancient India had a highly developed (complete) theory of aesthetics and here's how you're experiencing it, to the benefit of your practice of meditation,  every time you listen to your favourite music or enjoy some quiet time in an art gallery or museum.

Firstly, do you enjoy cooking? Or even if you don't particularly, we can all appreciate a TV food or cooking programme. A master chef takes all those dull ingredients and by combining them in a certain way, adding the right amount of different sauces, produces that delicious flavour in the food which is tasted when it touches the tongue.

This analogy of food and taste is the basis of what was regarded in vedic India as successful art, whether painting, music, dance etc: that it produces the state of 'ras-anubhava' ('relishable taste') , which is a kind of suspended state of pleasurable enjoyment - time disappears and you're totally absorbed in the experience.

Getting the state of ras-anubhava may not be very frequent but this is precisely the place your kundalini is trying to get you to when you meditate. Permanently. So whatever art or music you like that produces cool vibes on your hands is taking you in the right direction.

What the kundalini is actually doing is re-wiring the human brain (neuroplasticity) which Shri Mataji describes here. Imagine being 'blissed-out' all the time. Then everything is Art. A common street scene becomes a masterpiece of human movement.

See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards