Saint Mira

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

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KRISHNA, KRISHNA, ALL AROUND! 55 eyes are touched with tears. Mira sings : Mira weeps : Mira cries :-“Wiere art Thou, Beloved ?”
The pebbles of the road are pure after the rains. And the heart is purified after the rain of tears. Mira, with a strong, unearthly longing in her heart, cries out, again and again :-“Where art Thou, Beloved ?"
Seeing a shrine at some distance Mira hails Krishna, again and again :"Beloved! Beloved!”
And moving on, she finds at many places children met together to greet her,-boys and girls, sons and daughters of the cowherds such as Krishna loved in Brindaban. Mira meets the children. Mira feels the spiritual magnetism of children. Mira gazes at their faces and drinks in their sincerity, simplicity, spirituality, even as they drink in the love and longing of Mira's heart. Mira rejoices to see the love-lit faces of children. She looks at them. And she says :“What a picture! A picture of trust and faith are these little ones! A picture of bhakti!”
Yes,-children know nothing of your "big" things,-—your business, your earthly transactions. One rich treasure the little ones have : they have not lost the meaning of holy things. And, looking at Mira, they cry :-"Mother! bless thy children!”