It is a general feeling of a keen listener of any music genre that music changes one emotionally. It is a feeling that music has a force that pushes off one’s emotions. How does an emotional shift occur if there is no abstract force? There are discussions within scholarly domains regarding the power of music. However, this aspect is not interpreted from a traditional Indian perspective. This paper addresses the power of music as discussed in Indian philosophical domains and makes psychological comments. This article is aimed to understand the power of music within the Indian traditional system and to find its impact on the psyche with the help of conventional Indian theories in Sanskrit literature. It is found that there are two powers of musical sound which are identified by Ācārya Abhinavagupta (940-1015 AD.): _Ānanda-śakti_ (power of bliss) and _Mādhurya-śakti_ (power of sweetness).

 

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