Have you ever had the experience of listening to a piece of music and being transported to a sublime, uplifted state of consciousness?

And who is this music created by? Humans? Mere mortals?

What is at the very source of this music? Is it the wire strings on the guitar? The stretched skin on the drum? Or the data and processing power of a computer?

Well, all of these certainly help to produce the music – to manifest it, but they only bring forth something which is occurring in a subtler space. They bring forth what is moving around in the heart and mind of the musician.

What sponsors this impulse within the musician, is something even more subtle than the heart or mind. The music is born in soul, in spirit, in divinity. It originates in the celestial realms.

Music is divine. We all love it. But because we’ve created the illusion of separation between us and divinity, we tend to see the music that emanates from our musicians as earthly and not exactly divine.

Once you see this illusion of separation for what it is, the boundaries disappear and you see divinity all around.

It might be difficult to see divinity in a chair, or in a stone! Maybe it gets easier to perceive the Divine in a flower or in a sunset. And if we mostly miss divinity in human form – in those around us, it may be easier to start to feel it in the music, to hear it in the notes and rhythm, and sometimes to see it in the eyes of our musicians, for they are indeed celestial musicians in human form.

They are our “Gandharvas.”