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A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES: Dilip Kumar Roy Darkness of our unregenerate nature! Our God seeks birth as a human so we may
Be the more swiftly divinised till our
Flawed natures, become one with His, merge all
Their taints and blurs in His love's gold-incandescence!"36
Sanatan asks the pundit to learn from Mira about the greatness of his
Grace:
"Accept her lead and you shall win to the Peak
Where He will come, in Grace, to play with you Unfolding vistas of His bliss and beauty
Such as you dare not even dream of now."37
One must give up. Sanatan believes, mental exercise to have 'the apocalyptic Vision' in which a drop holds the deep.
Again, at the bidding of Sanatan, Mira elaborately describes how Sanatan was guided by his guru Sri Chaitanya on his difficult path of god-realization and how, ultimately, he had that realization of Krishna's Grace. Sanatan accepts that though Mira came as his disciple, she has turned out to be his guru because of her deep-rooted faith in the reality of Krishna and her intuitive knowledge:
"SANATAN (amending, with a laugh)
Nay, cried in a tearful voice: "I capitulate to you in deep disgrace."
(To Ajit, breezily)
Which was only the beginning of the end For lo and behold, in the first Act she enters
As an ideal disciple, bowing in deep Humility-only to culminate,
In the last Act, as she herself sang once:
(humming)
"Charanki kinkini bani vo sirka taj ho gayi: "She came to Him to tinkle as His anklets Only to end by gleaming as His crown !"38
Mira delineates very vividly to Ajit how, Krishna, at that time, used to come to Sanatan and her, how they gave bath to Him in Yamuna and fed Him, rebuked Him and then made Him sleep by their side everyday. Mira says:
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