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Aishwarya Kapoor

Why Ancient India Composed Sacred Ragas for Specific Hours: The Music of Time

The hour is not a suggestion

Bhairav does not sound like morning because it is peaceful. It sounds like morning because it was built for the exact quality of consciousness that exists in you before the world has asked anything of you yet, the state between sleep and full waking, when the mind has not yet hardened into its opinions. The flat komal Re and komal Ga of Bhairav land in that soft place. Played at noon, the same notes feel displaced, almost wrong. The raga has not changed. You have.

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