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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
“Where is my Bridegroom ?”
MIRA comes to Sri Krishna through her mother. Standing on the roof of her house, one day, Mira sees a marriage-procession and the bridegroom in the procession. The bridegroom is called “dulaha”. Deeply impressed with the sight, Mira runs to her mother and asks :—“Mother! where is my dulaha ?”
And Mira's mother says off-hand :-“Gridhara Gopal."
The word “dulaha” means not only “bridegroom": but, also, the "beloved”.
From this day onward, Mira never forgets that her dulaha, the "Beloved”, is Gridhara Gopal, Krishna ! From this day onward, Mira regards herself as the
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