Mirabai Poems

Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening,
kissing his feet, resistance broken, tears all night.

If we could reach the Lord through immersion in water,
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Go to that impenetrable realm
That death himself trembles to look upon.
There plays the fountain of love
With swans sporting on its waters.
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Take my arm
and keep up your promise!
They call you the refugeless refuge,
they call you redeemer of outcasts.
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We do not get a human life
Just for the asking.
Birth in a human body
Is the reward for good deeds
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Mira danced with ankle-bells on her feet.

People said Mira was mad; my mother-in-law
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I am pale with longing for my beloved;
People believe I am ill.
Seizing on every possible pretext,
I try to meet him 'by accident.'
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O my mind,
Worship the lotus feet of the Indestructible One!
Whatever thou seest twixt earth and sky
Will perish.
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In my travels I spent time with a great yogi.
Once he said to me.
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Thick overhead
clouds of the monsoon,
a delight to this feverish heart.
Season of rain,
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I have found, yes, I have found the wealth of the Divine Name's gem.
My true guru gave me a priceless thing. With his grace, I accepted it.
I found the capital of my several births; I have lost the whole rest of the world.
No one can spend it, no one can steal it. Day by day it increases one and a quarter times.
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