Musical Gods

The sanskrit word for musician is bhagavatharm which means "thee who sings the praises of god." They are people who dance with spirit, who interpret the language of the gods and turn it into something that we can hear. They are thus given the respect that I feel musicians in the west are deserve, but are not given.
Music plays an imprtant role in Indian's spirituality and Hindu religion. Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma, the eternal trinity, were the first musicians. Shiva, the cosmic dancer, worked out the infinite modes of rhythm in the process of universal creation, preservation and destruction. Brahma and Vishnu accentuated the beat with cymbals and mriganga's. Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom plays the mother of all string instruments, the Vina, while Krishna plays the flute, calling the human souls lost in Maya delusion, bacl to their true home...