Saint Mira

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

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OF
THE
RACE OF HEROES
Nabhaji, the great chronicler and interpreter of the devotees of Sri Rama and Sri Krishna, has some beautiful lines which indicate the very secret of the hold of Mira on the hearts of the Indian people. Nabhaji writes :--
The trumpet of bhakti (love) she did blow, And of none was she afraid! The thought "What will they say?"
She flung aside :
She lost herself in devotion to the Lord!
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The dates of her birth, marriage and death continue to be subjects of controversy among scholars.
Among the well-known poets and singers of God in India are (1) Namdev, in the tenth century, in the Maharashtra; (2) Chandidas, in the fourteenth century, in Bengal; (3) Lala, in the fourteenth century, in Kashmir; (4) Vidyapati, in the fifteenth century, in Mithila; (5) Kabir, in the fifteenth century, in the U. P.; (6) Narsing Mehta, in the fifteenth century, in Gujerat; (7) Mira, in the sixteenth century, in Rajasthan; (8) Sur Das, in the sixteenth century, in the U. P.; and (9) Tukaram, in the seventeenth century, in the Maharashtra.
The "Guru Granth Saheb", the "Sikh Bible", belongs to the sixteenth-seventeenth century, and the "Ramayana" of Tulsi Das, described as the