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does not favour also the Yogic practices for the attainment of salvation. She says that the Yogin has not grasped the real truth of devotion to God; the physical postures and anointing the body with ashes does not bring liberation; and who is destined to attain it, he alone attains it.' The only remedy and reliable way of the attainment of liberation is, according to her, the muttering of and contemplation of the name of Rama. Ramanāma is sufficient to destory all the sins of all the births and the devotee secures complete identity with the Lord. Mīrā describes the joy of her union with Lord. She says that she is full to the brim with the joy of the union of the Lord, and her body and mind are filled in every particle with the bliss of the Lord. She has achieved full satisfaction through her five sense organs and has welcomed the Lord. All her past pains are forgotten and desires are satisfied for ever. Her beloved Rama, the Lord, an ocean of bliss, has arrived at her place today.3 Mīra experienced a kind of superb and inexpressible joy when she felt her union with her Lord. When she received her Lord (piya) she felt so much overjoyed that she could not contain the joy in her body.*
Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Mira loved her Lord with the ardent fervour of the Chakora for the moon and Patanga for the lamp. She was all her life restless for her union with the
1 Chaturvedi Parashuram : Mirābāiki Padāvali (Hindi), Poem 186, p. 64.
2 Ibid. Poem 200, p. 68. 3 Ibid. Poem 142, p. 50.
4 Ibid. Poem 148, p. 51.
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