I have written a thing or two about consciousness and why it is important to understand https://logicsearcher.com/2019/07/31/technological-singularity-consciousness-and-life/ and https://logicsearcher.com/2020/07/02/everyone-got-a-soul/. Knowing what is consciousness, paves the way for us to draw the lines for DOs and DON’Ts of our action, but there is an one more important aspect of consciousness too. The aspect which makes us good or bad at something. You cannot acquire excellence without consciousness and today I am going to talk about the same in my today’s post.
I was browsing youtube.com for some content, some music, where I stumbled upon reaction channels. These channels on Youtube.com just react over some music content, analyzing its pros and cons, that’s all, and they have really great fan following too, e.g.:
a) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUyDpu18SLNxJxMjJKFbNOA (980K subscribers)
b) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqMy-fbfky74L_EgKlYXTDw (60K subscribers)
c) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR4z8ccOWNoUThB4VAMNBTg (966K subscribers)
AND then I came across this piece from two Pakistani singers who are MASTERS in their domain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SDrjwtfKMk and also check out some reactions too, for their performance, you will love it if you are a #musicfan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYXX4l4Cas.
These are the musicians who have spent better part of their life just to achieve perfection in one single trait, MUSIC. Just to have a perfect control over their voice modulations they have spent decades of practice, and patience. They kept their habits in check, e.g. not to eat something that can spoil their voice, not to shout to save their vocal chords. This is their Consciously made sacrifices, that has brought them to such a stage that entire world can only marvel upon their acts and music and voice. If this is not enough, then listen one more from Indian classical maestros, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA1x7iadCwo and also this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtuA1HmL0Y.
Consciousness in efforts, practice and determination
You all readers might be passionate about or may be not passionate about anything, but one thing is for sure, all of you carry an appreciation of at least one thing. Some of you carry appreciation towards money, some carry for good food, some for nature, music, cars etc. You also know that all beautiful things in the world needs conscious efforts and perfection of a given skill. I quoted example from music mainly as it is more easily available on social media, and the very few people point a finger towards the money factor here, which corrupt the concepts of hard work and patience in some people ideology.
Let me tell you, I am not someone, who carried appreciation for classical music before, but what I able to observe was control and meaning of perfection behind above quoted performances.
I will give you one more example before start writing the conclusion of this blog post.
I had a hard time understanding the duets between two musicians playing their own instrument of preference. But my recently acquired understanding of music made me aware about these kinds of duets, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmiThgzYX5E . Two masters able to translate musical nodes of each other instruments, since they understand the basic fundamentals of Music and able to string the very same musical pattern on their own instruments.
I can give you a similar example from Software programming. It is like a senior programmer, who can understand the code written in every other programming language and can write the same logic in his own language of expertise. Like from C to Java to Python.
Again such kind of skill set invites careful study, years of practice and appreciation towards the piece of art which others are producing.
Consciousness is the birth place of Beautiful things and Art
So here we come to the end, where I can say this bold line, consciousness is the birth place of beautiful things, arts and master pieces. You cannot create something artistic if you have not consciously spent time and effort to create that thing. I draw lot of inspiration after listening to their music, like you I also love beautiful things. I wanted to share this with you.
If we want to make something beautiful, be good at whatever you are doing. If we want to make this world beautiful, create something that benefits this world. Goodness is infectious, just like wrongfulness. It is up to us in what direction we make our Conscious efforts.
These observations has not only made me little more focused towards my work, but also made a bit more focused to keep looking for ways to increment my Consciousness. I hope I keep this cycle running.
Yash Pal Singh