"Within You Without You" is a song written by George Harrison, released on The Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The basic tracks for "Within You Without You" featured only Harrison and a group of uncredited Indian musicians based in London. Producer George Martin then arranged a string section, and Harrison and assistant Neil Aspinall overdubbed the tambura. According to Prema Music, dilruba player Amrit Gajjar played on the track.^[1] Hunter Davies wrote that Harrison "trained himself to write down his song in Indian script so that the Indian musicians can play them."^[2] With "Within You Without You", Harrison became the second Beatle to record a song credited to The Beatles but featuring no other members of the group (Paul McCartney had previously done so with "Yesterday").

"Within You Without You" is the second of Harrison's songs to be explicitly influenced by Indian classical music (the first being "Love You To", released on Revolver the previous year). Harrison said "I was continually playing Indian [sitar exercises] called Sargam, which are the bases of the different Ragas. That's why around this time I couldn't help writing tunes like this which were based on unusual scales."^[3] The song is Harrison's only composition on Sgt. Pepper after "Only a Northern Song" was omitted from the album. Harrison wrote "Within You Without You" on a harmonium at the house of long-time Beatles' associate Klaus Voormann ("We were talking about the space between us all, And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion— never glimpse the truth").^[4]

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The song (probably based on a longer piece by Ravi Shankar)^[5] is mostly in Mixolydian mode^[6][7] or rather Khamaj thaat, its equivalent in Indian music.^[3]

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The "larger psychology" is at work here.

Revolutions without love are doomed. [Krishnamurti]

Let the philosopher-poets enlighten us.

The West still has a lot to learn.

Jesus knew. But who really follows him? 

If a loveless money-mad power-crazed ignorant Techne-entranced Old World Order (under  the delusion its new) goes off a cliff, so be it.

Merry Christmas Kwanzaa Hanukkah  etc. etc. Happy New Year.

Within You & Without You

We were talking, about the space between us all 
And the people, who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion 
Never glimpse of truth, then it's far too late, when they pass away 

We were talking, about the love we could all share, when we find it 
To try our best to hold it there, with our love 
With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew 

Try to realize it's all within yourself no-one else can make you change 
And to see you're really only very small, 
And life flows on within and without you 

We were talking, about the love that's gone so cold and the people, 
Who gain the world and lose their soul 
Then you may find, peace of mind, is waiting there 
And the time will come when you see we're all one, 

And life flows on within and without you

--song written by George Harrison

"Let this be my last word, that I trust in Love." -- Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, verse 326