But Things Of This Kind
Practically Solve The Apparent Difficulty.
You have come all the
way from America to study the Hindus and their religion; but you
will never
Understand the latter if you do not realize how closely
all our sciences are related, not to the modern ignorant Brahmanism,
of course, but to the philosophy of our primitive Vedic religion."
"I see. You mean that your music has something to do with the Vedas?"
"Exactly. It has a good deal - almost everything - to do with the
Vedas. All the sounds of nature, and, in consequence, of music,
are directly allied to astronomy and mathematics; that is to say,
to the planets, the signs of the zodiac, the sun and moon, and to
rotation and numbers. Above all, they depend on the Akasha, the
ether of space, of the existence of which your scientists have
not made perfectly sure as yet. This was the teaching of the
ancient Chinese and Egyptians, as well as of ancient Aryans. The
doctrine of the 'music of the spheres' first saw the light here in
India, and not in Greece or Italy, whither it was brought by
Pythagoras after he had studied under the Indian Gymnosophists.
And most certainly this great philosopher - who revealed to the
world the heliocentric system before Copernicus and Galileo - knew
better than anyone else how dependent are the least sounds in
nature on Akasha and its interrelations. One of the four Vedas,
namely, the Sama-Veda, entirely consists of hymns.
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