Meera Bai quotes

I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;
and now you want me to climb
on a jackass? Try to be serious. (Meera Bai)

Don't forget love; it will bring all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.

Meera Bai

One night as I walked in the desert the mountains rode on my shoulders and the sky became my heart, and the earth - my own body, I explored. Every object began to wink at me, and Mira wisely calculated thinking, My charms must be at their height now would be a good time to rush into his arms, maybe He won't drop me so quick.

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Mira sang of her love for Krishna with such simplicity and directness that in her songs millions have found a voice and echo of their own God-yearning.

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Mother, I have bargained and bought Govinda! Let some say:Cheap! Let some say:Costly! I have weighed in the balance. Let some say:He is in the house, some say! In the woods! Sporting in the company of Radha! When Meera's Lord Giridhar Krishna comes, love.

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The Great Dancer is my husband," Mira says, "rain washes off all the other colors.”.

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I want you to have this, all the beauty in my eyes, and the grace of my mouth, all the splendor of my strength, all the wonder of the musk parts of my body, for are we not talking about real love, real love?

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The saint Mirabai is the most famous of the women saints of India and can be ranked among the foremost of the mystics of the world.

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For your sake, I gave up all pleasures, Now why are you making me long for you? You create the pang of separation inside the bosom So that you can come and quench it? O! Lord! Now I will not leave you Smilingly, call me soon! Meera is your servant in birth after birth Unite me with you in every limb.

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My lover's gone off to some foreign country, sopping wet at our doorway I watch the clouds rupture. Mira says, nothing can harm him. This passion has yet to be slaked.

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That dark dweller in Btaj
Is my only refuge.
O, my companion,
Worldly comfort is an illusion,
As soon as you get it, it goes
I have chosen the Indestructible for my refuge
Whom the snake of death
Will not devour.
My Beloved dwells in my heart,
I have actually seen that Abode of Joy.
Mir's Lord is Hari, the Indestructible
My Lord, I have taken refuge with Thee
Thy slave. (Meera Bai)

Love is something absolutely unselfish, that which has no thought beyond the glorification and adoration of the object upon which our affections are bestowed. It is a quality which bows down and worships and asks nothing in return. Merely to love is the sole request that true love has to ask. It is said of a Hindu saint (Mirabai) that when she was married, she said to her husband, the king, that she was already married. To whom?" asked the king. To God," was the reply.

Meera Bai