Saint Mira

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

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INTRODUCTION
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Tulsi rightly says, is pride : and the cure of pride is love. The root of spiritual life is bhakti or love.
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The key to Mira's life, as I understand it, is love for Krishna. And the key to her love is "renunciation”. Listen to what she says in one of her beautiful, little poems :
Thou art my Lord, Beloved! For Thee I leave my all! To Thee I give myself : For I love not maya !
Yes, we must renounce maya if, indeed, we are to win God. Sri Ramakrishna was asked :-“What does the Gita teach?” The Saint said :-“Utter the word Gita twelve times, and listen for the answer!" If, indeed, you utter the word, “Gita”, twelve times, you will hear, again and again, the word, “tagi” : and “taga," the Saint said, is tyaga, renunciation. In that one word, taga or tyaga or renunciation, is the entire teaching of the Gita. Renounce! Renounce ! And take refuge at the Lotus-feet of the Lord.
There are three aspects of renunciation :
1. Renunciation of worldly riches, -kanchan
(gold).