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Vijnana Bhairava Tantra · Dharana 50 · Verse 73

Joy in song and the senses

When music, scent, beauty, or any honest pleasure of the senses opens a clear joy, merge with that joy instead of remaining a spectator of its source. The song can go on playing. The practice is to become the happiness the song released, rather than standing to one side reviewing it.

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For one who becomes a single self with the matchless pleasure of song and the other delights of the senses, absorption in that pleasure lifts the mind until one is that.

After you look: if it is still alive, stay with it. If it has gone quiet, let tomorrow bring the next one.