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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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SAINT MIRA
He, the Lord of all, Never doth ask of thee What is thy caste! He who sings of Him And serves His creatures, He belongs to the Holy Band Of His worshippers, indeed !
Sri Rama was to him a symbol of the Lord of Creation, whom men worship in many ways. Raidas sings :
Break not Thou with me, O Rama ! I shall never break with Thee! If, indeed, I break with Thee, Who else is there To whom I can cling?
Raidas called “God” by the name of “Madhava”, - the “Sweet One.” Raidas taught that the best "caste” was "devotion” to God, -bhakti. Madhava, the Sweet One, he, also, called "Swami”, the "Master”. And he spoke of himself as a das, a “servant of the Master". What humility sings in the following little song of this "servant” of the Lord, this Guru beloved of Mira!
My caste is low, O Lord! My actions, too, are soiled with sin! But Thou, O Lord! hast exalted high
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