Some revile me,
others applaud,
I simply follow my incomprehensible road.
A razor-thin path
but you meet some good people,
a terrible path but you hear a true word.
Turn back?
Because the wretched stare and see nothing?
O Mira’s lord is noble and dark,
and slanderers
rake only themselves
over the coals
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Clouds –
ash black and pallid I saw mountainous cloudssplit and spew rainfor two hours.Everywhere water, plants and rainwater,a riot of green on the earth.My lover’s gone offto some foreign country,sopping wet at our doorwayI watch the clouds rupture.Mira says, nothing can harm him.This passion has yetto be slaked.
Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening,
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 nuts,Then surely the saints would have been monkeys when they came from the womb!If we could reach him by munching lettuce and dry leaves,Then…
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]
That dark Dweller in Braj
O my companion,Worldly comfort is an illusion,As soon you get it, it goes.I have chosen the Indestructible for my refuge,Him whom the snake of deathWill not devour.My Beloved dwells in my heart,I have actually seen that Abode of Joy.Mira’s Lord is Hari, the Indestructible.My Lord, I have taken refuge with Thee,Thy slave.
I am true to my Lord,
Since I have been seen dancing openly.In the day I have no hungerAt night I am restless and cannot sleep.Leaving these troubles behind, I go to the other side;A hidden knowledge has taken hold of me.My relations surround me like bees.But Mira is the servant of her beloved Giridhar,And she cares nothing that people mock…
Take my arm
They call you the refugeless refuge,they call you redeemer of outcasts.Caught in a riptidein the sea of becoming,without your support I’m a shipwreck!You reveal yourself age after ageand free the beggarfrom her affliction.Dark One, Mira is clutching your feet,at stake is your honor!