Saint Mira

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

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She has held her senses in check and now transcends them. She has passed through the painful process of purification and has now enriched her life with devotion to the Lord and fellowship with the poor and suffering ones in whom she sees the rupas, the Images of her Lord. The creatures by themselves, she feels, are nothing. "The Friend," she says, "is everything."
SAINT MIRA
Mira has passed through "experience" of anguish She has attained to the "conquest" of the senses. to "yoga", "union" in holiness. And becoming holy, she well may spend herself not only in singing of the Lord, but in service of the Eternal, who incarnates Himself in the poor and the lowly.
Mira now breathes out but one simple prayer:"O Krishna! O Beloved!" She needs not many words to open out her heart to her Lord. Krishna, the Ancient, Krishna, the Unborn, Krishna, the Purest of the pure, Krishna, the Holy of holies, Krishna, the Stainless, Krishna, the Prince of peace, Krishna, the Dweller in silence, Krishna, the Light of lights, -Krishna is now seen by her to be the Life of her life. "I live not for me," she feels; "Krishna liveth in me!" The sun, the moon and the stars are Krishnafragments. And Krishna is in the sea and the rocks, The life of each indiin the trees and the flowers. vidual is hidden in Him and He liveth in each. Each blade of grass now speaks to Mira, sings to her:
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