Saint Mira

Author(s): T L Vaswani
Publisher: Saint Miras English Medium School

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INTRODUCTION
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the universe begins to look more like a Great Thought than like a Great Machine.
History bears witness to the fact that there have been men and women who lived their lives in contact with the Great Mystery, bearing witness to the Divine Life by their serenity and their spirit of compassion. One of them was that spiritual genius, ---the great singer of the love of God whom India reveres as Saint Mira.
Four centuries and a half ago, she was born in a village in Mewar. She lives in the heart of India. Her songs are so unspeakably rich in the wisdom of the Spirit. Her life was so simple and so sublime! “God's saints are shining lights," said a mystic. From the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, from Karachi to Calcutta, Mira is to many a "shining light" : the secret of her “light” is devotion (bhakti) to Krishna.
In the Rajasthan, in Gujerat and in North India, her songs are still sung in many homes, the central note of the songs being :-"I abandon all to Thee, O Lord! To Thee I surrender all I am!"
The songs are so sweet : they inspire and uplift the heart. Not without reason is Mira called "the sweet singer of Rajputana.” Again and again, have I read the following songs of Mira enshrined in the “Adi Granth” of the Sikhs :