tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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The Vaisnava Saints of
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Mira possessed a genuine loving-heart of a woman and sought to behave like wife and a faithful servant to her Lord. She felt overjoyed by the beautiful and loving looks of her Lord, developed attachment for him, and sported with Him in all possible ways, including even those, which appear to be amorous. She imagined Him to be her actual husband and hence, she adopted all the ways of sporting with Him to gratify her desires. She felt the most heart-rending sense of separation from Him and she was burning with the fever of separation like a married woman that feels for her beloved husband due to their separation. She led a life of a renunciate (vairāgya) by becoming indifferent to the objects of worldly enjoyment.' But her spiritual nature did not allow her to degenerate; on the contrary, it purified her more and more and ultimately burnt the elements of physicality, and lifted her for ever, to the Divine realm of Kṛṣṇa. She sublimated her sentiments and adopted the path of the saints to cultivate a superior spiritual character (S'ila vrata), cultivated virtues of courage, forgiveness, truth, good intentions, generosity, contentment, and illumination by knowledge.2 She developed a highly moral and pure character and enhanced her spiritual ardour of love for the Lord by disregarding the lowly pleasures of the body. All the amorous descriptions of her sport with
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1 Chaturvedi Parashuram - Mir bajki Padavali (Hindi), Poem 44, p. 18.
2 Ibid. Poem 192, p. 65,