Love is in the air! Happy valentine's day!

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Today is Valentine's day! A day to remember, celebrate and drown

in 'love' - love for your beloved - of course, normally 'beloved' to

means one's spouse (husband or wife), boy friend or girl friend

etc....

 

Being also a Krishna bhaktin , my thoughts of 'love' always turns

to ,my chitta-chor (heart stealer) GOPI KRISHNA AND HIS 'RASA-LILA'

on this romantic valentine's day...

 

here are two mirabhai poems to put you in an 'ecstatic' mood !

 

Do not mention the name of love,

O my simple-minded companion.

Strange is the path

When you offer your love.

Your body is crushed at the first step.

 

If you want to offer love

Be prepared to cut off your head

And sit on it.

Be like the moth,

Which circles the lamp and offers its body.

Be like the deer, which, on hearing the horn,

Offers its head to the hunter.

Be like the partridge,

Which swallows burning coals

In love of the moon.

Be like the fish

Which yields up its life

When separated from the sea.

Be like the bee,

Entrapped in the closing petals of the lotus.

 

Mira's lord is the courtly Giridhara.

She says: Offer your mind

To those lotus feet.

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"I do not care about social norms."

 

 

I will fasten the bells of his love to my feet

And dance in front of Giridhar.

Dancing and dancing I will please his eyes;

My love is an ancient one.

My love is the only truth.

 

I do not care about social norms

Nor do I keep my family's honour.

I cannot forget, even for a moment,

The beauty of my lover.

I am dyed in Hari's colour.

 

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dear members, Avasa has already set the tone by composing a love poem

on this day of 'ROMANCE AND ROSES'

 

Please, post your thoughts on LOVE' - what this means to you.

 

Love to one and all