Guest guest Posted April 8, 2003 Report Share Posted April 8, 2003 Mirabai accepted Krishna as her husband since childhood days. She always carried Deity of Krishna and worshiped Him as a Vaishnavee! In the palace of her father-in-law, there were priests wanting to offer meat as prasadam- which Mirabai totally rejected. She met Jiva Goswami in Vrindavan. This story goes like this:- When an associate of Mirabai sent a message to Jiva Goswami that Mirabai has come to Vrindavana, and wants to see him, Jiva Goswami replied:- he does not meet any woman. Mirabai sent another message:- that shows that Jiva Goswami still considers himself as a "man" while in Gopi-bhaav, only Krishna is sole "purusha" and every one else is a Gopi! When Jiva Goswami heard this message- he realized his mistake, and immediately apologized to Mirabai and desired to see her. Both had Krishna Katha for few days! Mirabai has considered Chaitanya MahaPrabhu as Krishna and Radha and composed a nice Bhajan:- "Hari naam lau laagee", where she exactly decribes Chaitanya MahaPrabhu as a Sannyasi,shaven head, wearing saffron garb, representing Krishna ( thus leaving behind flute and gopies)! Mirabai is considered as "sahajiya" by some who imitate her! It is not easy to consider Krishna as one's husband- as such "sahajiya" are disregarded, as they fake! There are some incidents mentioning Mirabai and Radha! It is said that Mirabai didn't approve of Radha, as Krishna's beloved! This subject matter is for scholars to comment. At any rate, Mirabai is a Viashnavee and unalloyed devotee of Krishna, worshiping Him as His consort! It is not documented that Mirabai met Chaitanya MahaPrabhu. However, she sang and danced on streets, like Chaitanya MahaPrabhu, which was opposite to her life style as a queen. Since Mirabai has vividly described Chaitanya MahaPrabhu as Krishna, accepting Him as her Master, and serving Him as a maid servant, it is believed that she had His darshan, and was able to convince even great acharyas like Jiva Goswami- of Krishna Prem! Hearing and singing of bhajans/Glories of Krishna, and His incarnations are two symptoms/processes out of nine of Bhakti- devotion, as described by Prahalad Maharaj:- sravanam keertanam Vishnu smaranam paad sevanam! archanam vandanam, dasyam, saakhyam atma nivedanam! http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org your humble servant's servant, Dr Prayag Narayan Misra (DasAnuDas) e-mail: wwti Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 8, 2003 Report Share Posted April 8, 2003 achintya, prayag misra <worldwidetechnologies> wrote: > Mirabai accepted Krishna as her husband since > childhood days. She always carried Deity of Krishna > and worshiped Him as a Vaishnavee! In the palace of > her father-in-law, there were priests wanting to offer > meat as prasadam- which Mirabai totally rejected. Thank your comments. But may I ask what source you are basing much of your knowledge of Mirabai on? I think it is important to know. Certainly the popular stories speak very highly of her, and seem for the most part consistent with pure devotional service (from my superficial glance). But as far as I know, the only biography of her is the Bhakta-maala, an anthology of biographies on various Vaishnava devotees compiled by a devotee from the Vallabha sampradaaya. Should we not reference it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, krishna_susarla wrote:. > Certainly the popular stories speak very highly of her, and seem for > the most part consistent with pure devotional service (from my > superficial glance). But as far as I know, the only biography of her > is the Bhakta-maala, an anthology of biographies on various Vaishnava > devotees compiled by a devotee from the Vallabha sampradaaya. Should > we not reference it? There are in fact scores of Bhaktamalas (mainly in Hindi), but the first one is the most famous. It was written by a Ramanandi named Nabhadasa around the end the the sixteenth century. Unfortunately, his work is far too terse and elliptic to be reliably interpreted apart from its major (1712) commentary, the Bhaktirasabodhini of Priyadasa. Interestingly, Priyadasa himself was evidently a Gaudiya Vaisnava, but like many of those on whom he wrote, he seems to have been left out of the mainstreeam Gaudiya circles. I've never seen Srila Prabhupada or his predecessors mention these devotees either. MDd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 If my memory serves me correctly, Bhakta-mAla, is composed by Nabhaji Shree Narayanacharyaji who is from the Shri Ramananda Sampradaya ys krishna_susarla [krishna_susarla (AT) hotmail (DOT) com] Wednesday, 9 April 2003 8:50 AM achintya Re: Mirabai's Bhajans- additional comments But as far as I know, the only biography of her is the Bhakta-maala, an anthology of biographies on various Vaishnava devotees compiled by a devotee from the Vallabha sampradaaya. Should we not reference it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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