Music produces so great an ecstasy. Even among those musicians who were not mystics, such as Beethoven or Paderewski, you may see that their ecstasy is so great that they have no attention left even to arrange their hair. To brush their coat becomes a very difficult matter for them. In the West and in the East also it is so. In the East you may see a musician going out to play and leaving his sitar at home. His abstraction is so great that even the instrument is forgotten. In ancient times music was the sacred art. The great musicians were great mystics. Such were Tansen, whose miracles are known all over India, Narada, and Tambara. There are many different practices, but music is the best mystical practice. By music the highest state, the state called samadhi by the yogis, can be produced much more quickly than by any other means.