Saint Mira

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

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SAINT MIRA
They join her in her singing. And the birds make a consecrated chorus : they sing the song of angels and seraphims. Mira sees that in the faces of the little ones is veiled the face of Krishna. On more than one occasion, Mira holds out her hand,--the little, white hand of one who, indeed, was fair as she was pure,-the hand of a queen among women. And holding out her hand she says :“Give me what you will!” A queen begging of these poor children and saying :-“Give me what you will!”
. And they bring her rice and curds and a vegetable to eat. And she accepts it all with love and gratitude in her heart. Then, looking at them, Mira says with tear-touched eyes :—“My little ones ! how shall I bless you? You have given me richly of the love of your hearts!”
Mira's heart is filled with hunger and thirst for Krishna's love. Mira is bhakti-filled, bhakti-intoxicated. So were Sahajo Bai, and Daya Bai—the two sisters who sang lyric songs and who came many years after Mira had passed away. So, in another country, beyond the borders of India, in Basra, sang the bhaktifilled, love-intoxicated Rabia, the mystic-singer of Islam. So have sung, too, other singers of the Lord in other lands, in other ages. In every one of them, has sung a song, which hath been a holy descent from the Eternal on the human heart. And the cry of every one of these lyric singers of love hath been :