Saint Mira

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

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my All!" This mantra she repeats, again and again :"Thou, Beloved! art my All!"
SAINT MIRA
4. Then comes to Mira illumination, vision of the Lord, the vision of Shyama in His beauty and His glory.
5. All these stages lead on to the final one,-- the goal of the true bhakta's life, the stage of union. Her trisna (desire) vanishes. She no longer has a desire for any earthly thing. The "pilgrim" is spiritually blended with the "Beloved".
Is there not another stage, too, which comes after that of union? Is there not, in the case of some at any rate, the stage which we call the stage of "return to life"? In this stage, the self-realised person, the bhakta, rejoices in the service of the Lord on this earthplane of suffering and pain. The bhakta says:"His grace has lifted me unto Him. Now must I return to them who are His, my Beloved's: they are in suffering and pain: I must serve them, and take up the cross that they may be sanctified."
After her rich "realisation" in her heart, Mira moves out among men to work for the Lord and be outpoured as an offering in the Flame of Sacrifice. And the highest work, the noblest service, Mira realises, is kirtan, Nam-kirtan. Mira gradually builds up groups of kindred spirits,-to sing the Name of