George Harrison journeyed to god through rock ‘n’
roll, LSD and mystic India. Topple your own greed, anger and illusions if you
want to fix yourself, and don’t try and repair others. (Ancient Hindu text)
Each soul is potentially divine and our job is to
manifest it. (Vivekanda) Empowered beings and mystical powers fascinated Harrison.
The eastern spheres of religion and Hindu philosophy was an interictal part of
the late George Harrison’s life. Do some people feel spiritual energy flow up
through the roots to nourish plants and flowers to attain comic energy? Despite
the massive success Harrison achieved in his short life, he was never fully
satisfied.
By the time Harrison was 17-years-old he lived sex,
drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. As one the guitarist, singers and song writers of the
iconic Beatles, Harrison had amassed a fortune by the time he was 23-years-old.
Before the Beatles came to America, Harrison tripled his father’s weekly salary
as a bus driver, so he could retire, which his father indeed did. When Harrison
was in his 20s, he began his study of Hindu religion, which he kept until his
death in 2001 when he was 58-years-old. While in his 20s, Harrison said he
wanted to do as well as he could in what he attempts and to die with a peaceful
mind.
“The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison
Here Comes the Sun” by Joshua M. Greene should be read by any fan of George
Harrison or the Beatles. Harrison was no saint, and certainly not a devote
Hindu, but the vastness and wisdom of Hinduism played a major role in his life
and music. Music is the highest form of education states Rig-Veda, text from
ancient Hinduism.
Ravi Shankara, a close friend and mentor to Harrison
said making God in sound or trying to is the goal in music. The highest aim of our
music is to reveal the essence of the universe it reflects, Shankar said.
The Friar Park estate located in England was built in 1896
for Sir Frankie Crisp. The 35-acre estate had an array of homilies carved
throughout the property. Homilies are clever sayings that Crisp had posted
throughout the property. On Friar Park which was restored in the 1970s and
purchased by Harrison, these homilies were sayings about the devil, friendship
and life. Crisp was a bit like the creator of “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland,”
Lewis Carroll said Joshua M. Greene, the writer of this book. Harrison liked to garden in his newly acquired
estate and enjoyed the more then 100-year-old Homilies laden throughout his
property.
In August 1997, Harrison was diagnosed with terminal
cancer. The first two reactions, or most common ones for people receiving this frightening
news about themselves is denial and anger. For George, it was chanting and
planting. In this age, the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name
of god. There is no other way. (Brhannaradiya Purana 38.126) thousands of years
before the Bible.
When George was diagnosed with cancer in 1997, doctors
gave him six months to live, and George said bollocks! George died on November
30, 2001.
“He wasn’t attached to this world in the way most
people would be. My dad had no fear of dying whatsoever. I can’t stress that
enough really,” Dhani Harrison said.
Mark Izzy Schurr
