Saint Mira

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

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KRISHNA, KRISHNA, ALL AROUND! 53 every thought even of “paradise”. The flame in her heart consumes everything save the Beloved.
On her pilgrimage to shrine after shrine, she meets a number of men and women, and every word she speaks is an offering to Sri Krishna. Does she serve the needy as she moves on? Every act of her “service" is an offering to Sri Krishna. Her offering is charged, through and through, with deep shraddha (faith or self-dedication to the Lord). Her pilgrimage is one rapturous procession, one wondrous song of adoration to the Lord.
In a significant sutra in Patanjali, we read the following pregnant words :—“He who sacrifices all to Ishwara (the Lord), --he enters into samadhi (the super-conscious state).” Mira has renounced her all to Him whom she loveth, so that nothing remains to her of her own. To Mira earthly things, all wealth, all worldly honours, all the joys of life in the palace are transient. Her only wealth and only joy is her Lord. And to Him she cries, again and again. Listen to some of Mira's deepest cries of the heart :
Come, O Compassionate One! Come and meet me, Master! Mira is Thy maid-servant : Through the ages Hath Mira been Thine, Thine own! Mira falls at Thy feet :