Question

Why did akbar decide go to sant haridas hut

Answer 1

because tansen said to him that my guru sings better than me. and akbar wanted to hear his guru's singing as tansen said it was divine.

Answer 2

one the finest examples of imaginative tales transformed into a piece of canvas, like a short story the painting represents the popular folk that Akbar with Tansen once secretly visited Swami Haridas, the Vaishnava singer and poet, at Vrindavana when ignorant saint was performing all alone to his own delight and for delighting his Lord. The miniature represents on the left a lean and thin saintly figure, clad in a white sheet around his groins, singing and playing enrapt on his lyre, Tansen seated in the centre and a royal figure, obviously Mughal emperor Akbar, on the right.

As the tradition has it, Akbar wanted that Sant Haridas, a divine singer and born poet, writing, composing and singing his songs in devotion to Lord Krishna, and the teacher of Tansen, one of the nine jewels at his court at Agra, came to Mughal court and performed for him. However, the great saint declined his invitation as saints had their place in divine feet, not in the king's court. However, the tradition that saw in Swami Haridas a saint's self respect saw in Akbar also a great lover of music. Deciding that he shall see Swami Haridas perform, he planned with Tansen a secret visit to his hermitage and listen to him sing and perform.