Mirabai

"Mirabai was a devotee of the high, higher, highest order. Among the saints of India, she is absolutely unparalleled. She composed many, many bhajans, which are prayerful songs to God. Each song Mirabai wrote expressed her inspiration, aspiration and sleepless self-giving."   Sri Chinmoy




I'D CALL THAT
A poem by Mirabai


Before I
fell asleep last night
I laid awake and wondered:

What did I achieve this day
just roaming around calling His name?

So I brought before my minds' eye all who I had been kind to,
and it turned out to be
all things that
I had
seen.

I'd call that---one hell of a
productive
day!


Mirabai (1498-1550) India's most renowned woman poet-saint