Meera

HH  Shri Nathji also had praise for Meera, and used to praise her steadfastness

HH Shri Nathji had often quoted the saying of the legendary devotee, Meerabai, who had

said:

Kit jaaoon taj charan tihaari

Where can I go if I leave Thy Feet

Her other songs -

“Rana roothhe nagari raakhe

Mai Har roothhe kahaan jaanaa

If the King be angry, let him keep his

kingdom,

But if my Lord is angry where shall I go?

And

"Pag ghunghroo baandh meeraa naachi re

Let Meeraa dance now with joy!"

And also

"Mujhe naukar raakho jee,

Mujhe chaakar raakho jee

Nit utth baag lagaaoon

Nit utth darshan paaoon

Keep me as Thy servant,

O Lord, keep me as Thy slave,

Tending to thy garden on rising, every day,

And catching a glimpse of Thee!"

MeeraBai was an aristocratic Hindu mystical singer and devotee of Lord Krishna from Rajasthan and one of the most significant figures of the Sant tradition of the Vaishnava bhakti movement. Some 1,200–1,300 prayerful songs or bhajans attributed to her are popular throughout India and have been published in several translations worldwide. In the bhakti tradition, they are in passionate praise of Lord Krishna. In most of her poems she has described her unconditional love for her Lord.

Meera, a Rajput princess was born in Kudki (Kurki), a little village near Merta City[1] which is presently in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan in northwest India. Her father, was Jai Singh Aman.

As an infant Meera became deeply enamored of an iconic idol of Lord Krishna owned by a visiting holy man; she was inconsolable until she possessed it and probably kept it all her life. Then she was just five years old. She was highly influenced by her father as he was a sole worshipper of Krishna. But because she would not be able to keep the Lord happy the holy man took away the idol. Then she, her friend Lalita and her male cousin, Jaimal, went to the holy man or saint's house to get the idol back. When they went they saw that whatever the saint was offering to the Lord was not accepted. Then some ancient myths say that the idol started crying. Then next day the idol was given back to Meera and since then it remained with her. This made a bond between her and Lord and she was called "stone lover". She even organized a marriage with the idol. And she considered herself as spouse of Lord Krishna.

 Meera’s marriage was arranged at an early age, traditionally to Prince Bhoj Raj, the eldest son of Rana Sanga of Chittor. She was not happy with her marriage as she considered herself already married to Krishna. Her new family did not approve of her piety and devotion when she refused to worship their family deity- Tulaja Bhawani (Durga). Her husband's death in battle against Babar in 1527 AD. It was only one of a series of losses Meera experienced in her twenties. She appears to have despaired of loving anything temporal and turned to the eternal, transforming her grief into a passionate spiritual devotion that inspired in her countless songs drenched with separation and longing.

Meera's love to Krishna was at first a private thing but at some moment it overflowed into an ecstasy that led her to dance in the streets of the city. Her brother-in-law, the new ruler of Chittorgarh, was Vikramaditya, an ill-natured youth who strongly objected to Meera's fame, her mixing with commoners and carelessness of feminine modesty. There were several attempts to poison her. Her sister-in-law Udabai is said to have spread defamatory gossip.

Meera declared herself a disciple of the guru Ravidas, and left for Vrindavan. She considered herself to be a reborn gopi, Lalita, mad with love for Krishna.

She seems to have spent her last years as a pilgrim in Dwarka, Gujarat. It is said that Mirabai disappeared into the Dwarkadhish Murti (Image of Lord Krishna) in front of a full audience of onlookers.