While reading the latest biography of George Harrison, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, by Joshua M. Greene -- which I first read excerpted in Yoga + Joyful Living magazine [formerly Yoga International -- I came across the following bit of inspirational thinking that made me thankful to be a musician, or at least to have enough musical sensibility and talent to be able to take advantage, if I were so inclined and felt suffiently worthy to do so. Apparently, it's an old Indian formula that was brought to the west via the Hare Krishna movement as a saying of Lord Chaitanya:
If you read the Vedas a million times
that is the equal of one recitation of japa.
If you do a million recitations of japa
that is the equal of once making an offering of food with love.
If you make a million offerings of food with love
that is the equal of one musical offering.
What is superior to a musical offering?
Only another musical offering.
Nothing is higher.
Link to the book, which was quite wonderful to read, is in the Now Reading column to the right on my blog.
Hare Krishna Hare Rama
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