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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Moksa
bliss by participating in the eternal sport (lilā) of Kışņa. This is the speciality of Sūrasāgara.'
Mirabai Mirābāi appears as one of the most brilliant stars in the galaxy of the medieval saints. Mirābāi shines with her own light and she pours down her own brilliance in the sky of the bhakti schools. Mirābāi possessed originality in developing her ardent devotion to the Lord Kțşpa. She did not belong to any definite sect of the devotees. She did not establish any cult of devotion (bhaktipantha). She carried on her devotion of God independently, though occasionally she visited the famous shrines. Mirābai is known for her extremely ardent devotion to Kțsņa. Mirābāi possessed a female heart and she directed all her emotions of love and respect to her Lord Kļšņa or Giridhara; her love-songs are, therefore, full of profound love and the most intense devotion. She led a life of loneliness and isolation since she had lost her mother in her early childhood and became a widow soon after her marriage. She had lost the two important centres of her love and so, her life seems to be filled with excessive disappointment, pathos, and melancholy. She lived in the 15th century from 1498 to 1546 A.D.
Mirābāi's life is from the beginning to the end full of pathos and depression. She was bereaved, in the earlier period of her life, of her two dearest relations, her mother and her husband. She suffered
1 Vajpeyi Nandadulare : Mahakavi Sūradāsa, pp. 109,110.
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