I listen to Bollywood music and I absolutely love it, says John McLaughlin, a renowned English guitarist and composer from the band, Remember Shakti
You founded the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti and Remember Shakti... what drew you to Indian music?
I learned yoga and when I moved to New York, I started doing the exercises with greater concentration. I began to feel the need to improve myself through meditation and that's when I was introduced to Sri Chinmoy.
I asked him about the relationship between music and spiritual consciousness and he told me that what a person does isn't important. What matters is the person's state of consciousness. Whether one was a street cleaner or a musician was less important. If one was a musician seeking enlightenment, one's music would "automatically be a part of it". (Continues...)
