Theos-Talk Archives (April 1995 Message tl00170)

> On this subject I was told that Radha Burnier says that was not
> advisable to use music in meditation, because "music is a kind of
> form and meditation aims to achieve consciousness beyond forms."

> From my experience I arrived to the conclusion that music is very
> good to attain the "concentration" state, as a sonic "mandala", but
> its fixation on one of the senses works similarly as an "anchor",
> which refrain the consciousness to enter the deep "meditation"
> level.
>
> What you think about it?
>
> Shanti!
>
> Osmar  *|)

>From my experience, I would support the Radha Burnier opinion.

The use of music as an aid to relaxation and the contemplative
type of meditation (which I call contemplation, but some call
meditation) is of course useful in its own right.

With good wishes,

Alan