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if he is aware of his body and his name while he is painting. When he is in tune with his whole idea, his work, the color, the brush, the canvas, his painting, he forgets himself. At that moment, he gives a touch to the painting and creates something exquisite. A little touch and a mystic smile appears on the lips of the subject. But if he is aware that I am Leonardo De Vincci drawing this picture, he will merely paint lips. He will be unable to portray that mysterious, unique smile. Many people see this quality in the smile of Mona Lisa. Can you recreate its mystery? It is a mere painting. With a ten dollar supply of paint, a fifteen dollar brush, and a thirty dollar canvas you can copy it, and many people have. What, then, makes the original so unique? In that single stroke of inspiration the artist captured through a smile that moment when the heart was in tune with the infinite. You seldom find such a smile on the lips of all the beautiful models. Yet, we can recognize that the artist unwittingly touched on something.
Similarly, if a musician tells you that, "Ah, I am a musician and I am going to play you some enchanting piece of music, then, he is not going to give you anything. He must first be like sugar when it mingles with water. It loses its existence in the form of sugar and becomes sweetness. This is true of the scientist also. He is in tune with the infinite and the infinite reveals its heart and gives insight. So a scientist, a painter, a singer, a spiritual person or a realized person must be able to lose himself in Nirvikalp, into the
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