Saint Mira

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

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INTRODUCTION
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MANY years have passed since I went to Chitor to see the Mira Mandir (Temple), built by Rana Bhoj Raj for his well-beloved Queen,-Mira. In that Temple she sang, she worshipped Krishna, she did Nam-kirtan in the company of her devoted sakhis,— the devotees of Krishna.
Wheresoever I turn,
I see Thy worshippers rapt In Thy worship, Lord!
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Outside the Mandir, saw a small shaded place where, they told me, Mira had met her Guru, named Raidas his footprints are still there. He has been well called the "Boehme of India." He was born in Kasi, in the house of a chamar, a cobbler. Raidas' father earned well he had a shop where he made leather-goods. And Raidas spent his father's money freely in service of the poor. This offended the father he turned Raidas out of doors! With his devoted wife he went out and sat in a street and did the cobbler's work. In his heart was a vision of the One in all. What joy he poured in the words :
He was happy to live as a poor man and out of his earning he still served the poor. And to all who met him, at his shop or outside, he gave this message:
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