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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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SAINT MIRA
Krishna, the “Beloved” of the Heart. She need no longer wander from shrine to shrine. “The Way,” she says, "is still to sing the Holy Name in love at Krishna's Lotus-feet.” Mira realises that the world and its vanities pass, but the Beloved abides.
“The One remains, the many change and pass : Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows
fly!”
There is a song of Mira which, like many others which Mira sang, has thrilled me, again and again. I have rendered it thus :
Yes, -I know The sun, the moon, the earth, the sky, And air and water,---all will vanish, And men and birds and beasts Will one day die :
All will be ashes and dist! But my Beloved will not die! And He is mine For ever and evermore!
I have poured the perfumed oil Of my Life in bhakti's golden lamp : The Light of the lamp will radiant be And I shall serve the Lord for evermore!
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