Kalimero Travelling Minstrel

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Sometime ago when fate played truant with reality I found myself walking a beach I had visited over thirty years ago. Many things had changed except the fabric of spiritual life, fluttering like a brightly coloured flag on a fishing boat. It was here that I met Kalimero, a twenty year old Indian travelling minstrel. And as the sun set on yet another day, we sat on the beach and talked. “Music is a means to speak the truth which cannot be comprehended with words. It is a means to connect with yourself. It is definitely more than just expression because the truth is not an expression. Anything that is expressed, suppressed etc., is not the truth because it is pressed out, because the truth has no beginning and end. It is a means to listen to the inner voice. Music is everywhere. The sound of the leaves is the truth. We can hear Om in the ocean. Sound and silence is music.”