Saint Mira

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

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SAINT MIRA
“Bible of Modern India”, belongs, too, to the sixteenthseventeenth century.
To the eighteenth century belongs Ramprasad Sen, the great Bengali singer of Kali, whom he invokes, as did Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa in the twentieth century, as the “Mother”. Ramprasad Sen is a bhakti-poet like Mira. There is not a village in Bengal where his songs are not sung. In the following little song, Ramprasad Sen sings with deep bhakti and spiritual insight :--
Mother! This day, too, will pass, And only rumour remain! I came to the market of the world, I sat by its bathing-ghat, I sat down to sell my wares.
Mother! The sun is seated on high, And the Ferryman has come : The load of many doth fill the Boat : Alas! none thinketh of this unhappy one : I am left behind, For they ask for a coin from this poor man : Where shall I get it?
Mother! O Mother!