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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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SAINT MIRA
O ye of the highest caste, What gain ye in life, If ye sing not the Holy Name?
And again :
I have seen the rich and the great of the nations of the Earth. Not one of them, I say, Is equal unto him Who is a bhakta A servant of the Beloved, And who each night and day With every breath doth say :“Holy, holy is Thy Name !"
Mira and Sur were the two greatest Hindi Vaishnava poets of their day,-poets who were bhaktasingers of Krishna, the Beloved.
What is bhakti? Love. And Mira's bhakti is the gopi-love for Krishna. As the sunflower turns to the sun, so turns Mira to her Beloved. Karma, it is true, has its place in life : but what is karma without bhakti? I read of a farmer, who watered his field the whole day long, but not a drop entered the field : all the water flowed out through the holes. So is your work, your "seva” or “service” of little avail, if you have not love in your heart. The root of sin,
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