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The Baltic ensemble “Inspiration Flames“ is performimg the meditation music of Sri Chinmoy and some very old Sanskrit mantras in Vienna (July 9th, 2021) Sri Chinmoy, the composer of these wonderful and, above all, touching songs uses his native Bengali for most of his lyrics, as this language with its mantric and poetic beauty lends itself to spiritual music. Sri Chinmoy describes the relationship between spirituality and music thus: “When we listen to soulful music, or when we ourselves play soulful music, immediately our inner existence climbs up high, higher, highest. It climbs up and enters into something beyond. This beyond is constantly trying to help us, guide us, mould us and shape us into our true transcendental image, our true divinity. When we hear soulful music, or when we play a piece of soulful music, we feel a kind of inner thrill in our entire existence, from the soles of our feet to the crown of our head. A river is flowing through us, a
