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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Atman and Mokṣa
with the Lord by abandoning the physical garment of her body the moment she obtained realisation; in the world she was playing various sports (lilä) with the Lord. She has depicted her Lord as the most handsome young man and the sports played with Him were even of the amorous type. However, her love for Him was pure.
For Private And Personal
The devotion of Mir to the Lord is understood as the Madhura-rasa-bhakti (--) or sweet-devotion in which the devotee experiences servitude (dāsya-), friendship (sakhya-) or affection (vātsalya-) for the object of his love. According to Madhura-rasa, a devotee looks upon the object of his devotion as his sole ideal and the intimacy of their relation can reach its climax only by imagining to be the beloved wife of the Lord; as to a man the most intimate and closest relative is his wife. The object of the Madhura-rasa is supra-mundane, and hence, though it assumes amorous forms of sport, in fact, it is a supersensuous (indriyatita) experience of sweet madness for the object of love. Such a kind of love is free from the physical enjoyment and the attachment to the body and the passions (kāmavāsanā); on the contrary, it reaches its culmination in a completely selfless surrender to the Lord to experience identity (tadatmya) with Him by totally negating the narrow egohood of the worshipper. Mira strove to attain the supersensuous joy of identity with the Lord experiencing the 'Gopibhāva '; the experience of being a close companion of the Lord, sporting and dancing for ever with Him.
