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1 " The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God. "
― Mīrābāī , Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems
2 " Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live? "
3 " Awake to the NameTo be born in a human body is rare,Don’t throw away the reward of your past gooddeeds.Life passes in an instant – the leaf doesn’t go back tothe branch.The ocean of rebirth sweeps up all beings hard,Pulls them into its cold-running, fierce, implacablecurrents.Giridhara, your name is the raft, the one safe-passage over.Take me quickly.All the awake ones travel with Mira, singing thename.She says with them: Get up, stop sleeping – the daysof a life are short. "
To be born in a human body is rare,Don’t throw away the reward of your past gooddeeds.Life passes in an instant – the leaf doesn’t go back tothe branch.The ocean of rebirth sweeps up all beings hard,Pulls them into its cold-running, fierce, implacablecurrents.Giridhara, your name is the raft, the one safe-passage over.Take me quickly.All the awake ones travel with Mira, singing thename.She says with them: Get up, stop sleeping – the daysof a life are short.
4 " My lover's gone offto some foreign country,sopping wet at our doorwayI watch the clouds rupture.Mira says, nothing can harm him.This passion has yetto be slaked. "
― Mīrābāī
5 " Don't forget love;it will bring all the madness you needto unfurl yourself acrossthe universe. "
6 " I wantyou to havethis,all the beauty in my eyes, and the grace of my mouth,all the splendor of my strength,all thewonder of the musk partsof mybody,for are wenot talking about real love, reallove? "
7 " I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;and now you want me to climbon a jackass? Try to be serious. "
8 " One night as I walked in the desertthe mountains rode on my shouldersand the sky became my heart,and the earth - my own body, I explored.Every object began to wink at me, and Mira wiselycalculated the situation, thinking:My charms must be at their heightnow would be a good time to rush into Hisarms,maybe He won't drop meso quick. "
9 " I came for the sake of love-devotion; seeing the world, I wept. "
10 " My friend, I went to the market and bought the Dark One. You claim by night, I claim by day. Actually I was beating a drum all the time I was buying him. You say I gave too much; I say too little. Actually, I put him on a scale before I bought him. What I paid was my social body, my town body, my family body, and all my inherited jewels. Mirabai says: The Dark One is my husband now. Be with me when I lie down; you promised me this in an earlier life. "
11 " Take no pride in the body,It will soon be mingling with the dust.This life is like the sporting of sparrows,It will end with the onset of the night. "
