The earth looked at Him and began to dance.
is in love.If you cannot picture Godin a way that alwaysstrengthensyou,You need to readmore of mypoems[Translated by Daniel Ladinsky]
is in love.If you cannot picture Godin a way that alwaysstrengthensyou,You need to readmore of mypoems[Translated by Daniel Ladinsky]
A golden pitcher on my head.Hariji has bound meBy the thin thread of love,And wherever He draws me,Thither I go.Mira’s Lord is the courtly Giridhara:This is the natureOf his dark and beautiful form.
If we could reach the Lord through immersion in water,I would have asked to be born a fish in this life.If we could reach Him through nothing but berries and wild nutsthen surely the saints would have been monkeys when they came from the womb!If we could reach him by munching lettuce and dry leavesthen…
The one I longed for has come home;The raging fire of separation is quenched.Now I rejoice with Him, I sing in bliss.The peacocks at the cloud’s roarDance with unbound joy;I rejoice in ecstasyAt the sight of my Beloved.I am absorbed in His love;My misery of wanderingIn the world has ended.The lily bursts into bloomAt the…
I understand now what was happening.Love so strong a forceit broke thecage,and she disappeared from everythingfor a blessedmoment.All actions have evolvedFrom the taste of flight;the hope of freedommoves our cellsand limbs.Unable to live on the earth,Mira ventured out alone in the sky –I write of that journeyof becoming asfree asGod.Don’t forget love;it will bring all…
Of worldly relationships?Thy parents gave thee birth in the world,But the Lord ordained thy fate.Life passes in getting and spending,No merit is earned by virtuous deeds.I will sing the praises of HariIn the company of the holy men,Nothing else concerns me.Mira’s Lord is the courtly Giridhara,[Translated by A.J. Alston]
O my companion,Once I awoke with a start from a dream.Now the remembrance from that visionNever fades.My life is ebbing as I choke and sigh,When will the Lord of the Afflicted comeI have lost my senses and gone mad,But the Lord knows my secret.He who deals out life and deathKnows the secret of Mira’s pain.
so I may go and play in the arbour.within the alcove I will meet my Master;Shedding all falsity, I’ll sing in joy.The sun will perish, so too the moon;Earth and sky will exist no more.Air and water will also go;The Eternal alone will there be.Of surat and nirat make the lamp,And let thy longing be…
Whose pathways are filled with strangeness?When you offer the Great One your love,At the first step your body is crushed.Next be ready to offer your head as his seat.Be ready to orbit his lamp like a moth giving in to the light,To live in the deer as she runs toward the hunter’s call,In the partridge…
O sadhus! there is no other–I have seenthe whole world.I left brothers, I left kindred, I leftall I had.Sitting near the sadhus, I lost worldly shame.I looked at the devotees and I was one withthem; I looked at the world and wept.With tears I watered love’s creeperand it took root.I churned the milk, drew out…