More impressive than the deeds described in Milarepa’s biography is the perfect characterization of madness as a necessary constituent of holiness. Just imagining him as he is portrayed, a “skeleton” with greenish skin, a “ghost”, a miserable weakling, dressed in rags… And yet we notice his stubborn will, his total self-denial and the resolution that does not give in to the most intense and basic needs. What is most impressive is that, after assimilating the reasonableness of madness, one ends up realizing that mad, in fact, was everyone else.