![]() ![]() When they rode back he could not utter a single word to Tansen. ![]() Akbar listened as if hypnotized, his eyes raining tears. Akbar and Tansen reached the hut at two o’clock. His singing was like the song of the birds his songs had nothing to do with anybody. At three o’clock every morning, before dawn, he would sit by the river and sing in ecstasy. Tansen’s guru, … Swami Haridas, stayed in a hut on the bank of the river Jamuna. If we approach him directly he might stop singing.” If you are that eager we shall have to go and hide behind his hut and listen secretly. You can hear my guru only when he chooses to sing. The more you plead the more silent he will become, for it will begin to wonder why the request. A cuckoo will never sing at your request. ![]() His songs are like the songs of the birds. I do have a guru who is still alive, but you cannot call him to the court for he does not sing on request. So I would like to meet your guru and hear him.” You must have had a guru, and perhaps he is even better than you. But then it occurred to me that you must have learned from somebody. He said, ”Last night when you left, a thought came to my mind that there has never been a singer greater than you, nor will there ever be. It happened this way: The emperor Akbar told Tansen one day that he would like to meet and hear his guru. ![]()
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