The Mother

The Mother's Music

The Mother's music has often been recognised by X as Indian

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of this or that rāga. The Mother plays whatever comes through her―she does not usually play any precisely composed music whether European or Indian―the latter in fact she has never learned.

11-9-1934

The Mother has played music from her childhood upwards―so it is no trouble to her to sing or play several times.

15-9-1933

It is not necessary to have technical knowledge in order to feel what is behind the music. Mother, of course, does not play for the sake of a technical musical effect, but to bring down something from the higher planes and that anyone can receive who is open.

15-9-1933

It is not by knowledge of music that the understanding [of the Mother's music] comes; nor is it by effort of the mind―it is by becoming inwardly silent, opening within and getting the spontaneous feeling of what is in the music.

1932

Yes. All that is very true. It is a prayer or an invocation that Mother makes in the music.

1-6-1935

Q: Is it true that when the Mother plays on the organ

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she calls down the Gods of the higher planes to help us?

A: Not consciously.

9-2-1934

Q: Does it mean that the Gods are attracted to her music and come down?

A: They may be.

10-2-1934

Q: Does the Mother bring out something while playing?

A: If she did not bring something, why should she play at all?

19-4-1934