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Lord and found it difficult to live without her Lord just as a fish finds it difficult to live without water. The sight of the Lord is to her a love-dagger that pierced through her and she lost the consciousness and understanding of her body and herself in her union with her Lord; His love had occupied her body and mind through and through and she was His sincere and devoted servant.' Mīrā says that their love is not newly formed but is very old, continuing for a number of births.? She has accepted her Lord as her only Lord (Bhratāra) for ever and her mind does not deviate even a little from Him to any other man." He is the full Brahman and that He should give her the everlasting place near Him; she was suffering from the separation from Him, and therefore, her request was to Him was that He should take her in His charge. She was drunk with the love of her Lord and she danced in the moments of her ecstacy of love for the Lord, caring not in the least, for the shame of the people. She had offered herself totally to the Lord, body and mind, without any reservation, and wherever she saw Rāma she served Him with all her fervent devotion, and wherever she put her step she used to dance in the passion of His love. She had worn the body of the five colours as a covering for her soul (jiva), and she became one
1 Chaturvedi Parashuram : Mirābājki Padāvali (Hindi), Poem 176, p. 60.
2 Ibid. Poems 17, 46, 47. 3 Ibid. Poem 126. 4 Ibid. Poem 129.
Ibid. Poem 14.
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