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Mirabai (1498-1550)

Mira Has Finished with Waiting

O friends on this path,

My eyes are no longer my eyes.A sweetness has entered through them,

Has pierced through to my heart.How long did I stand in the house of this body

And stare at the road?My Beloved is a steeped herb, he has cured me for life.

Mira belongs to iridhara, the One !ho "ifts All,And everyone says she is mad.

It's True I Went to the Maret

My friend, I went to the mar#et and bought the $ar# One.

%ou claim by night, I claim by day.Actually, I was beating a drum all the time I was burying him.

%ou say I gave too much, I say too little.Actually, I put him on a scale before I bought him.

!hat I paid was my social body, my town body, my family body, and all my inherited &ewels.Mirabai says' (he $ar# One is my husband now.

Be with me when I lie down) you promised me this in an earlier life.

!n"e #e""s

Mira dances, how can her an#le bells not dance?*Mir is insane,* strangers say that. *(he family+s ruined.*oison came to the door one day) she dran# it and laughed.

I am at Hari+s feet) I give him body and soul.A glimpse of him is water' How thirsty I am for that-

Mira+s "ord is the one who lifts mountains, he removes evil from human life.

Mira+s "ord attac#s the beings of greed) for safety I go to him.

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In !"" M$ %i&es

In all my lives you have been with me) whether day or night I remember.

!hen you fall out of my sight, I am restless day and night, burning.

I climb hilltops) I watch for signs of your return) my eyes are swollen with tears.

(he ocean of life that+s not genuine the ties of family, the obligations to the world

they+re not genuine.It is your beauty that ma#es me drun#.

Mira+s "ord is the reat $ar# /na#e. (hat love comes up from the ground of the heart.

Mira the #ee

O my friends

!hat can you tell me of "ove,!hose pathways are filled with strangeness?

!hen you offer the reat One your love,At the first step you body is crushed.

0e1t be ready to offer your head as his seat.Be ready to orbit his lamp li#e a moth

giving in to the light,(o live in the deer as she runs toward the hunter+s call,

In the partridge that swallows hot coals for love of the moon,

In the fish that, #ept from the sea, happily dies."i#e a bee trapped for life in the closing

of the sweet flower.Mira has offered herself to her "ord.

/he says, the single "otus will swallow you whole.

!wae to the ae

(o be born in a human body is rare,$on+t throw away the reward of your past good deeds.

"ife passes in an instant the leaf doesn+t go bac# to the branch.

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(he ocean of rebirth sweeps up all beings hard,

ulls them into its cold2running, fierce, implacable currents.iridhara, your name is the raft, the one safe2passage over.

(a#e me 3uic#ly.All the awa#e ones travel with Mira, singing the name.

/he says with them' et up, stop sleeping the days of a life are short.

To M$ #rother-in-%aw ana

I don+t li#e your strange, strange world, 4ana.

(here are no holy men in it, and the people are trash.

I don+t wear &ewelry anymore) I don+t bind my hair.I+ve given up dar#ening my eyelids and doing my hair the married way.Mira+s "ord is the One !ho "ifts Mountains)

I don+t need a bridegroom.

! *rea o+ Marriage

In my dreams the reat One married me.5our thousand people came to the wedding.

My bridegroom was the "ord Bra&anath, and in the dream all the doorways

were made royal, and he held my hand.In my dream he married me, and fortune came to me.

Mirabai has found the reat /na#e iridhar) she must have done something good in an earlier life.

Wh$ Mira ,an't ,oe #a to Her ."d House

(he colors of the $ar# One have penetrated Mira+s

body) all the other colors washed out.Ma#ing love with the $ar# One and eating little, those are my pearls and my carnelians.

Meditation beads and the forehead strea#, these are my scarves and my rings.

(hat+s enough feminine wiles for me.

My teacher taught me this.Approve me or disapprove me' I praise

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the Mountain 6nergy night and day.

I ta#e the path that ecstatic human beings have ta#en for centuries.

I don+t steal money, I don+t hit anyone. !hat will you charge me with?

I have felt the swaying of the elephant+s shoulders) and now you want me to climb

on a &ac#ass? (ry to be serious.

/o"ish into o"d

I give my heart without fear to the Beloved'

As the polish goes into the gold, I have gone into him.(hrough many lives, I heard only the outer music.0ow the teacher has whispered into my ears,And familiar ties have gone the way of wea# thread.

Mira has met the 6nergy (hat "ifts Mountains(hat good luc# now is her home.

The e"ae

O friend, I sit alone while the world sleeps.

In the palace that held love+s pleasure the abandoned one sits.

/he who once threaded a nec#lace of pearls is now stringing tears.

He has left me. (he night passes while I count stars.!hen will the Hour arrive?

(his sorrow must end. Mira says' "ifter of Mountains, return.

Mira the %otus

My "ord, the love that binds us cannot be bro#en.

It is hard as the diamond that shatters

the hammer that stri#es it.

As polish goes into the gold, my heart

has gone into you.As a lotus lives in its water, I am rooted in you.

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"i#e the bird that ga7es all night at the passing moon,

I have blinded myself in giving my eyes to your beauty.

/he who offers herself completely as#s only this'

(hat her "ord love Mira as fully as he is loved.