Poems of Mira Bai

[Guest guest]

The following poems are from one of India's

greatest Saints. Her name is Mira Bai. Her poems are in the tradition of

"the lover and the Beloved,the bride/bridegroom" --the

"soul/Oversoul"

relationship of divine union.

 

In the first poem Mira yearns to meet her Beloved. The second poem

expresses Mira's joy and bliss upon reaching divine union.

 

Bhakti,

 

James

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come, Beloved Lord,

Grant me Thy darshan (vision);

Away from Thee

I cannot stay alive.

 

Like the lotus without water,

Like the night without moon,

Is Thy dear one

Without Thee, O Lord.

 

In anguish I wander day and night,

And pangs of separation

Keep gnawing at my heart;

Days drag without hunger,

Nights without sleep,

And lips fail to narrate the tale of my grief.

 

What can I say? I have no words

To convey my longing;

Pray come, and quench

This fire that's searing my heart.

 

Lord, You know all;

Then why do you torment me thus?

Pray, have mercy,

Come and meet Mira

Who, for ever your slave,

In love surrenders at Your feet.

 

********************************

 

The one I longed for has come home,

The raging fire of separation is quenched;

Now I rejoice with Him, I sing in bliss.

 

The peacocks at the cloud's roar

Dance with unbound joy;

I rejoice in ecstasy

At the sight of my Beloved.

 

I am absorbed in His love;

My misery of wandering

In the world has ended.

The lily bursts into bloom

At the sight of the full moon;

Seeing Him my heart blossoms in joy.

Peace permeates this body of mine,

His arrival has filled my home with bliss.

 

That very Lord has become my own,

Who is ever the redeemer of His devotees.

Mira's heart, scorched by the blaze

Of separation,

Has become cool and refreshed;

The pain of duality has vanished.

 

-- ("MIRA THE DIVINE LOVER," V.K. Sethi, Radhasoami Books)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

______________________

Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com