It's like their relationship with the Divine.... Yesterday, while I was working here in the morning (distributing the eggs!), they made me listen to music by Sahana,[[A Bengali disciple who is a musician. ]] a hymn by their group which is in the line of "religious music." There are sounds, certain sounds that may be called "religious sounds"; they are certain "associations of sounds," which are universal, that is, they don't belong to a particular time or a particular country. In all times and all countries, those who have had this religious emotion have spontaneously given out this sound. While the music was playing, that perception came to me very clearly (it's an association of two or three sounds), it came with the very state of consciousness that produces these sounds, and which is always the same: the sounds reproduce the state of consciousness. The whole [instrumental] accompaniment is different, and naturally that always, always spoils it. But these two - two or three - sounds are wonderfully expressive, in a precise, exact way, of the religious feeling, the Contact (gesture to the Heights), the adoration: the contact of adoration. It was very interesting. And in her piece, this sound recurs two or three times. All the rest is padding. But that ... And I've heard it in churches, I've heard it in temples, I've heard it in mystic gatherings, I've heard it ... Always mixed with all kinds of other things, but that's ... And these sounds are absolutely evocative of the effect - in fact it's the other way around: it's the state of consciousness that produces these sounds, but when you hear the sounds it puts you in contact with the state of consciousness. So then, I understood why people like to listen to this music: it's because it suddenly gives them ... ah! they feel something unknown to them. How interesting it was! page 248 , Mother's Agenda , volume 7 , 29th Oct - 1966