Saint Mira

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

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SAINT MIRA
The King of my Heart? When? ( when ?
Centuries have passed since these words were sung by Mira. Yet, even today, as we listen to them, they find an echo in our hearts.
MIRA was famous for her beauty and her bhakti (devotion to Sri Krishna). "Her history," writes the English historian of Rajasthan, “is a romance." As brave as she was beautiful, she wandered far and wide, from the Ganga to Dwarka, visiting shrines of Sri Krishna and singing her songs filled with intense longing.
Mira is not merely a singer : she is one of the great heroines of Rajasthan. Persecuted by her brother-in-law, after the departure of her husband, Bhoj Raj, who loved her intensely, Mira finches not an inch in her devotion to Sri Krishna. She is full of the Rajput spirit of heroic resistance to injustice and oppression.
Count Keyserling was a world-traveller and a great thinker. And this is what he wrote about Chitor :-"No place on earth has been the scene of equal heroism or knightliness or an equally noble readiness to die."
To a race of heroes and heroines belongs Mira.