Q: Does music facilitate spiritual progress?
A: It can be useful only in the very early stages. Music may stimulate us to realize that reality is in the mind, and help us to form some notions about the ephemeral nature of reality. However, we too often get stuck to music. If you want to know whether music makes one more spiritual, you need look no further than the lives of musicians. Their lives teach us that we learn to sing because our hearts have forgotten how.
Q: Don't you think the calming influence of music is important in this modern materialistic world? It is said: "Music soothes the savage beast."
A: Music soothes only the savage beast.