00:00What do we know Tansen for? Music.
00:02Akbar once asked Tansen that I think that you are the most wonderful singer that can ever be.
00:09But today this curiosity comes to me that who is your guru? Can you call him here?
00:13Tansen smiled and he said I do have a guru but he'll not come to your court.
00:18You'll have to go and meet him.
00:19Akbar said let's meet him. Introduce me to him.
00:22Tansen said no. No point introducing you because he does not sing for an audience.
00:25You just wait. You sit here and wait.
00:27They kept repeating the same exercise.
00:29Ultimately one night at around 4 a.m. just before sunrise the man came out of his hut.
00:36The sky is beautiful just before sunrise and he started singing.
00:39And it's said that he kept singing and tears kept flowing down Akbar's eyes.
00:44Akbar said to Tansen I used to think that you are a wonderful singer but you are nothing compared to
00:51your guru.
00:51You are always practicing and your guru he doesn't follow any regimen, any schedule for rehearsal.
00:57How does he get that? And why can't you have that?
01:00Tansen said the difference between me and him is that I sing for you.
01:05He sings for himself.
01:07I sing because I want to get something from you and the audience.
01:11He sings because he already has everything.
01:14That is the difference.
01:15You have to ask yourself why do you play the violin?
01:18Do you play it for others or do you play it for yourself?
01:22What exactly draws you to it?
01:24You have to ask that to yourself.
01:25And then you'll know.
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