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!'