Question: 1 – Why was Brahma sad? Who helped him and how?
Answer: Brahma was sad because human beings simply ignored the beautiful things created by him. They did not seem to be sensitive to the beauty around.
Saraswati helped him by drawing out from deep with in them, the capacity to respond to the majestic splendour and exquisite and wondrous beauty of all creations.
Question: 2 – Why does a work of art thrill and awe us?
Answer: A work of art thrills and awes us because behind all such works of art it is a great spiritual urge of the artist.
Question: 3 – How did Tansen make his Guru sing? Why do you thing this use was so successful? (or) what did Tansen do to make Hari Das sing for Akbar?
Answer: One day Tansen sang one of the songs taught by the swami ji and deliberately introduced a false note. It had almost an electric effect on the Saint. This provoked the Swami and he rebuked Tansen. He sang the song himself.
Question: 4 – Even a great emperor like Akbar was unable to fulfill a wish of his. What was it? What did he do instead?
Answer: Akbar wanted to hear Swami Hari Das sing. But he could not call him to his court because he lived in the Himalayas. Akbar along with Tansen went to the ashram of Swami Hari Das in the Himalayas in order to hear the great master sing.
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