Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
He is a musician, author, secret agent in revolutionary Russia, and authority on Eastern philosophies.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:22Could you discipline yourself to enduring indefinite solitude on this island?
Oh, I think very well I should love it.
Presenter asks
0:41What was it your earliest ambition to be?
I always wanted to be a church organist first.
Presenter asks
1:24How did you keep yourself in Rotterdam?
Oh, I I got a job teaching English. And then when I'd earned enough I went on to Germany. and learnt German. And then I went on to Poland. Then I went on to Russia from there by easy stages working my way.
Presenter asks
3:55You were there during the Revolution?
So I was there during the Revolution. Then of course I relinquished my post at the Marinsky Theatre. And uh because of the revolution I never took it up again.
The luxury
Presenter asks
6:24Having left Russia, and having been awarded the KBE for your work, what was the next move?
Next move I went to America where I was invited to deliver Lectures all over the country?
Presenter asks
8:00You've adapted a system of yoga to make it suitable for Westerners. How does this help us?
Well, every single thing we do in life, whatever it is, from start to finish, we do through the medium of the physical body. I've never seen anybody when their body became an encumbrance be able to park it in the corner of the room and the solence paid goes off and does the shopping. It doesn't happen that way. Every th single thing we do, all our aspirations, prayers, hopes, fears, and Every experience we have we have through the medium of the physical body. So it is the physical body which should be the first spiritual preoccupation.
“Oh, I think very well I should love it.”
“by that time my ideas about music had broadened out very considerably. I no longer wanted to be a pianist, I wanted to have a whole orchestra in in front of me, and Albert Coates took me under his wing and I became an assistant of his at the Marinski Opera House.”
“So I was there during the Revolution. Then of course I relinquished my post at the Marinsky Theatre. And uh because of the revolution I never took it up again.”
“Well, every single thing we do in life, whatever it is, from start to finish, we do through the medium of the physical body. I've never seen anybody when their body became an encumbrance be able to park it in the corner of the room and the solence paid goes off and does the shopping. It doesn't happen that way. Every th single thing we do, all our aspirations, prayers, hopes, fears, and Every experience we have we have through the medium of the physical body. So it is the physical body which should be the first spiritual preoccupation.”
“I found I was able to start life all over again, starting at about seventy.”