Saint Mira

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

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KRISHNA, KRISHNA, ALL AROUND ! 61 “Krishna! My Krishna!
I know none other but Thee!” Krishna's Name shines in every star. To her, Krishna is in the ant, in dung, in dust, in maya, as Krishna, too, is in the pure, the saintly, the holy. In every flower and wave is He : in every bird and form of beauty is He. In the sweetness of spring is He. And is He not the spark at the centre of every soul?
Mira has, after passing through a great agony of separation, broken at last the spell of samsara, the glamour of the world and its activities.
Mira's joy passes into what is deeper than "joy”, passes into silence,-the silence of the mystic who utters not a word but gazes at Krishna, as Krishna in silence gazes at him. Mira, with tear-touched eyes, now looks on every creature as a theophany, a rupa, a form, an image of Eternal Krishna.
Gone is now the illusion of separateness. Listen to one of Mira's songs in this connection :
Forget not this, o man! This human birth is thine,A gift from the Blessed One! But this happens not again and again. This body is a gift to thee from God That thou mayst in wisdom grow And sing in thy heart the Name !