Mirabai Mirabai

I am mad with
And no one understands my plight.
Only the
Understand the agonies of the wounded

This infamy,
O my Prince,
is delicious!
Some revile me

We do not get a human
Just for the asking.
Birth in a human
Is the reward for good

Mira danced with ankle-bells on her feet.
People said Mira was mad; my mother-in-law said I ruined the family reputation.
Rana sent me a cup of poison and Mira drank it laughing.
I dedicated my body and soul at the feet of Hari.

Do not leave me alone, a helpless woman.
My strength, my crown,
I am empty of virtues,
You, the ocean of them.

The rainy season is
And the skirt of my dress is wet.
You have gone off to distant lands,
And my heart finds it unbearable.

Thick overhead clouds of the monsoon,a delight to this feverish heart.
Season of rain,
season of uncontrolled whispers—-the Dark One's returning!
O swollen heart

Sleep has not visited me the whole night,
Will the dawn ever come?
O my companion,
Once I awoke with a start from a dream.

Unbreakable,
O Lord,
Is the
That binds me to You:

Rana, to me your slander is sweet.
Some praise me, some blame me.
Igo the other way.
On the narrow path

Take my armand keep up your promise!
They call you the refugeless refuge,
they call you redeemer of outcasts.
Caught in a riptidein the sea of becoming

That dark Dweller in
Is my only refuge.
O my companion,
Worldly comfort is an illusion

O my mind,
Worship the lotus feet of the Indestructible One!
Whatever thou seest twixt earth and
Will perish.

Friend, the arrow of his glance struck my eyes;
Its point pierced my heart (and) his sweet image entered my soul.
For a long time I have been staying (here) watching the road, standing at my house.
My life clings to (my) dark…

Come to my pavilion,
O my King.
I have spread a bedmade of delicately selected buds and blossoms,
And have arrayed myself in bridal

Nothing is really mine except Krishna.
O my parents,
I have searched the
And found nothing worthy of love.

I send letters to my Beloved,
The dear Krishna.
But He sends no message of reply,
Purposely preserving silence.

Drink the nectar of the Divine Name,
O human!
Drink the nectar of the Divine Name!
Leave the bad company, always sit among righteous company.

On a sudden, the sight.
Your look of light stills all,
stillsall,
The curd-potfalls to the ground.

The dagger of love has pierced my heart.
I was going to the river to fetch water,
A golden pitcher on my head.
Hariji has bound

Mine is the lifter of mountains, the cowherd, and none other.
O sadhus! there is no other—I have seen the whole world.
I left brothers,
I left kindred

Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening, kissing his feet, resistance broken, tears all night.
If we could reach the Lord through immersion in water,
I would have asked to be born a fish in this life.
If we could reach…

I have found a guru in Raidas, he hasgiven me the pill of knowledge.
I lost the honor of the royal family,
Iwent astray with the sadhus.
I constantly rise up, go to God’stemple, and dance, snapping myfingers.

The saffron of virtue and
Is dissolved in the water-gun of love and affection.
Pink and red clouds of emotion are flying about,
Limitless colours raining down.