Saint Mira

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

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SAINT MIRA
The poor man says :-"I found Him in detachment : I found the Lord of all in renouncing moha, attachment.”
Mira, renouncing all moha, moves on, from place to place. After this “renunciation”, comes darkness, suffering, pain. And after suffering and pain, her life is enriched with that concentration which deepens into devotion, --bhakti of the highest type for the Lord.
To Mira, Krishna now is become the Lamp of her life. Krishna, too, becomes her Way, the Path which she treads, travelling on and on. And every step she treads is filled with spiritual anguish. Krishna hath captivated her : Krishna hath wounded her! Steep is the Ascent of Love and steep is the Path of Mira's quest.
She moves on! She sings on! Her songs are in Brijabhasha or Gujerati or Hindi of Northern India. They are penetrated with the power of spiritual music. It is the music of the Great Heart vibrating to the pilgrim's heart.
If the earlier stage is that of "burning love", the next stage is that of "songful love”, love filled with "joy", - which the rishi of the Upanishad refers to as ananda (joy). From ananda, the rishi says, hath flowed the universe : and to ananda will return all that is ! Mira's sorrow, her longing, her yearning,