Saint Mira

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

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SAINT MIRA
the waters of sacred rivers. Mira has touched the dust of many Krishna-shrines on the way.
At Brindaban, there lives a great bhakta of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu whose name is Jiv Goswami. Mira is anxious to have his darshana : and, standing at the Temple-gate, Mira sends a request to be permitted to see the Goswami.
He sends a word :-"I never meet women!”
Mira sends an answer in the following words :“O great one! I thought Gridhara, Sri Krishna, was the only Purusha (male) in Brindaban : and I thought everybody else was a woman in Brindaban. But now I know that Krishna has a compeer, that there is a second Krishna in Brindaban!”
Jiv Goswami is struck with Mira's answer. It goes right into his heart. He realises that Mira is no ordinary singer of Krishna. Mira, he understands, is a supreme bhakta. What Mira means is :-“I regard Krishna alone as the Purusha (male) : I see all others as sakhis (females).”
And Jiv Goswami quits his seat, quickly opens the gate of the Temple and, in great love, meets Mira.
With what love is Mira greeted by the people