Saint Mira

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

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SAINT MIRA
bride of Sri Krishna! And, every day, she thinks of Him : she builds an Image of Shyama from the dust of the earth and, sitting in silence, looks at the Image, again and again. Absoi bed in the one thought, the one vision of Shyama, is Mira everyday.
Some days after this arrives in Mira's village a sadhu. He has with him a small Image of Gridhara Gopal. Mira sees that the sadhu worships this Image. And she runs to her mother, saying :-"Mother ! get me that Image of Shyama.”
The mother requests the sadhu if he would give the Image to Mira.
The sadhu says : -“Mother! Shyama is my Ishta, my Lord, to whom I offer daily worship. And wherever I go, I take this Image with me. Not for a single moment am I away from the Image. How can I give It to Mira?”
And Mira's mother reports to Mira what the sadhu has told her. At night, the sadhu has a vision of Sri Krishna in his sleep. Sri Krishna says to him :“My devotee art thou : wilt thou not pass on My Image to Mira?
And early in the morning, the sadhu comes to Mira's house and gives the Image to Mira's mother,