ABSTRACT
The framework of Indian music, the raag and taal there are very specific principles of engineering, strictly in accord with the same theories and processes of yoga. A raag expresses more than just musical statements; it is the means whereby Indian musicians conjure up the inner world that moves their beings. Saman music established the sacramental nature of the early singing which took place along with the drinking of the soma juice which was offered up as in the ritual communion to symbolize and to bring about a merging with the Divine. As in other civilizations there was a parallel musical stream running alongside the liturgical one. This was ordinary folk-music, deshi music, the word 'desh' meaning country in Hindi. In music these concentrated rasas, flavourings of mood which were formulated into a theory of music known as nava rasa, the nine highly-charged emotions aroused their corresponding emotions in the listener.
