Six days before death...

About music, the Optina Elder Barsauphius, shortly before his death, told his spiritual child: "When you have children, teach them music. But, of course, real music, not dances and songs. Music contributes to the development of the perception of spiritual life. The soul is refining. She also begins to understand sacred music. Here in our church, they read the Six Psalms, and people often leave the church at this time. But they do not understand and do not feel the Six Psalms is a spiritual symphony, the life of the soul, which captures the whole soul and gives it the highest pleasure. People do not understand this. Their heart is hardened. But music helps to feel all the beauty of the Six Psalms. (Six days before death)