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Archetypes
Astrology
Attainment
Balance
Chakras
Character
Christ
Compassion
Desire and renunciation
Dimensions
Discipleship
Dreams
Duties and debts
Ego
Elements
Guidance
Healing
Heart
Immortality
Initiation
Light and Love
Magnetism
Mastery
Material life
Meditation
Message
Mind
Physical Body
Planes
Power
Prayers
Purpose
Reconstruction of World
Relationships
Religions
School
Sexuality
Sleep
Speaking
Stages
Stories
Sufism
Teaching Style
Women
World
Wounds of the Heart
Sub-Topic
A God of stone
A King and Garbage
A Sigh for a Prayer
A Wonderful Tree
Abraham & Isaac
Aladdin
Alchemy
Are you a thief?
Ayaz 1
Ayaz 2
Bedouins
Bijili
Bowing
Bullah Shah
Catching the Mind
Climbing over the wall
Court of Indra
Dervishes
Do you want more?
Dog's Journey
Dolls House
Eating Chicken
Elephant Leader
Elephant Leader
Everyone is Murshid
Everything is connected
Evolution of a Jinn
Give your raincoat
Going to Court
Golden Slippers
Great Wrestler
Hafiz!
Halim
Heaven and Hell
Indifference
Iraqi
Jinn Evolution
Kali
Khalif Omar
Killing in Anger
Kindness of a Warrior
Kissing Fire
Krishna and Arjuna
Magic Wand
Magnetized Sweets
Man Who Knew My Teacher
Mohammed Chehl
Mohammed Ghauth
Mohammed in Solitude
Moses & Khidr
Moses and the Drunkard
Moses and the Peasant
Moses Invites God to Dinner
Muhammad
Muhammed's Cows
Mureed Without Response
Music Downward
Newspaper Reporter
No Outward Sign
No Shoes
Nurse's Duty
Obsession
Palace of Seven Stories
Power of a Word
Prostitute
Pupil with Many Faults
Puran
Purifying a Room
Quarrel Over Toys
Reincarnation
Reincarnation
Resignation
Saint Elias
Sati
Sayn Aliyas
Shame
Shams and Rumi
Shankaracharya
Shivaji
Speaking Persian
Spread Like Influenza
Sufi Sarmad
Surdas
Take no notice.
Tansen and Akbar
Teacher promises heaven
That is why
The Chief of the Robbers
The Comedian of Indifference
The Court of Indra
The Glance
The Greatest Gamblers
The King Who Prays
The Maharajas sons
The Spirit Of Prophecy
The time of my cure
Thin and Fat
Tie Your Camel
Tree of Desire
Truthful boy
Twenty Thousand Questions
Walking in the City
Who will save thee?
Wine to Water
Vol. 10, Art: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
1. Music (1)
One day the Emperor Akbar said to his chief singer, Tansen, "You are such a great singer and there is such wonderful magic in your voice, I wonder how great your teacher must have been." "Please," Tansen said, "never compare me to my teacher, there is no comparison." Akbar said, "Is your teacher then so great? Is he still alive?" Tansen said, "Yes, he is living dead." "Where can one find him?" asked the emperor. "I should like to hear him." Tansen said, "I will try, but I am afraid that his spirit might revolt if he saw that he had to sing before the emperor." Then Akbar said, "I shall come disguised as your servant." Tansen said, "In that case, it might be possible.'
Akbar went with Tansen, and after travelling a long way they found this teacher in the mountains, in solitude. Although Akbar was dressed as a servant the sage recognized him; still, the emperor's humble attitude appealed to him. And then he sang, and both Akbar and Tansen became spellbound; the sphere of the earth was lost from their consciousness.
When they came to their senses they saw that the sage was not there any more. "Where is he?" asked Akbar. Tansen said, "He has left this place for ever, fearing that we might come again and trouble him." Akbar could not say one word in praise of the music he had heard.
After their return to the palace, one day the emperor said, "Tansen, I feel such a longing to hear him again." Tansen said, "We can never find him again now that he has left that place." "But," said Akbar, "I feel so restless, I long so much to hear that voice again. Do you not know that raga which he sang?" Tansen said that he did know the raga and began to sing it. But when he had finished the emperor said, "It is not the same. Why is it?" And Tansen felt hurt and said, "It is because I sing before you, but my teacher sings before God!'
This incident awakened in Tansen's heart such a feeling of independence that he saluted the emperor and bade him goodbye. He saw that the source of his imperfection was the relationship he had with the court; and he could no longer bear it. And so he left, and the rest of his life he wandered through the country and led a meditative life.