JMVRI Issue Number 10
JMVRI Issue Number Ten, as with the previous issue, starts with an article by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the supreme value of art and music, a re-printed chapter from The Unmanifest Canvas. The following two papers include a country report on the results of an ongoing educational peace initiative in Bali, and a paper presenting a mixed-methods study of social coherence in Cambodia between 1990 and 2008.
JMVRI Paper 10.1
The Supreme Value of Art and Music
Author: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
This paper can be downloaded via the following link:
https://www.academia.edu/39776286/The_Supreme_Value_of_Art_and_Music
Citation: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (2019). The supreme value of art and music. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 10, 9-20.
Introduction
It is a joy today to inaugurate the field of knowledge and technology of art and music. In inaugurating the supreme field of art and music, we find an opening of the door of all evolution. This inauguration of the field of art and music is to open the door of the supreme value of art and music. Where is the supreme value of art and music? Art is the skillful operation of transformation, the skillful unfoldment of transformation mechanics. Where is music in this? In the transformation of anything, there is change, and change could be uncomfortable. Change could be uncomfortable or change could be comfortable. When change is comfortable, the change is enjoyable, and if it is enjoyable, it has the characteristic of music. Transformation is there, but if the transformation is in the direction of evolution, then it is in the direction of more and more and more and more. Change in the direction of more and more is enjoyable; it is musical.