Sound Bhakti

In one of the talks today, there were some esteemed musicians. One of them was a world-famous Carnatic musician. What we heard from his accolades, when he was introduced today was that he was an expert at an early age. If anybody wants to guess how early that was, it was 2 years old, and he just went upwards from there. In any case, he was talking about the way in which one may become proficient in music. There’s a similar culture in learning music in classical Indian music, Carnatic music in particular, which has to do with getting tutelage from a guru, a musical Guru, and following a particular sampradaya. Because there’s always variety in everything, one of the statements that he made stuck with me. He said, did this famous teacher, “Learn from one source for a long time”. He said, “Learn from one source for a long time,” where he said you may have a confusion in your mind. It becomes like a traffic jam of many different styles in music. So, this is something Krishna recommends… (excerpt from the talk )