My blue earphones

Heaven’s Eco is what I called it when a friend of mine asked me how the experience of my new earphone is.

Yes, that may sound something excess, but still I was mesmerized by the sound it brings out. It is like your soul is touched when you put them on. The soothing music that goes deep down to your heart and back is that touches your soul unknowingly. You no longer reside in this universe and that is the best thing this set of earphone has given me.

Using it for quite a few days, I felt happy and satisfied that the money that I have invested in it is a total ‘paisa vasool’ type product. But lately, with time I realized that music takes us to some other land, to some other universe or destination which may never exist and this set of earphone is just a gateway to escape from the real world for quite some time.

Music is like a therapy, the more you listen, the more get to know which therapy suits your which mood. My favourite therapy is soulful songs that make your heart beat a time more.  Soulful can never be complete without sufi songs. Sufi songs are those songs that connect you to your beloved, those songs that connect your love to god, those songs that brings love back in your life.

Sufism is something that makes you feel connected deeply with your inner self, and sufi poems, songs are the way to express yourself in a way like never before. Sufi music came into existence around 1000 years back. In the 10^th and 11^th century, soon after Islam entered the country in 8^th century, Delhi Sultanate was having Sufi mystic traditions in it. Sufi music is mainly the devotional music that Sufi poets have brought forth. Rumi (my favourite), Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow and Khwaja Ghulam Farid are some eminent sufi poets.

Time passed, but Sufism never left our culture. The practice of Sufi songs is increasing with each new song. A.R.Rahman is someone who has worked on it a lot and all his songs having sufi music has gained acclaim and audience support. Rockstar is such an album that has got some striking sufi tracks that bounds you to listen to it again and again. Every music director is investing themselves in experimenting with such new music and bollywood has received some great sufi works and may be more to come.

Alike sufi teachings that is based on divine spirituality, cosmic harmony, love and humanity , the music also comes up with same thoughts and similar feel. Every song inspired by Sufi Poem is in itself a way to get connected to love-unconditional love that passes straight from heart to God. I am glad that my ear phone is doing some spiritual work for me to connect me with my soul and vice versa.

Ending this note with one of my favourite Rumi quote “Your body is away from me but there is a window open from my heart to yours. From this window, like the moon. I keep sending news secretly.”