Bhakti · ≈1498–1547
Mirabai
Bhakti movement · devotion to Krishna · Songs of Mira
A princess who threw away her throne for love of Krishna and sang like one possessed, unafraid of disgrace.
The essence of the teaching: True devotion is a "mad" surrender that casts off propriety, status, and safety itself for union with the Beloved. The pain of separation is not an obstacle but the only fuel that leads to the meeting.
Transmission
Mira was a Rajput princess, but she gave her heart to Krishna before any human being. Her family poisoned her for the disgrace – she drank it with a song, and the poison became nectar. She sang: I have gone mad with love, and only the wounded knows the anguish of the wounded. On this path you must lose all worldly honour to find the true, and you must burn yourself in the longing of separation, so that this same longing leads you home. Her madness was the key that opens the heart of mysticism in every faith.
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