Mīrābāī > Quotes

“Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across
the universe.”
― Mirabai

“I want
you to have
this,

all the beauty in my eyes, and the grace of my mouth,
all the splendor of my strength,

all the
wonder of the musk parts
of my
body,

for are we
not talking about real love, real
love?”
― Mirabai

“I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;
and now you want me to climb
on a jackass? Try to be serious.”
― Mirabai

“One night as I walked in the desert
the mountains rode on my
shoulders

and the sky became my heart,
and the earth - my own body, I explored.

Every object began to wink at me, and Mira wisely
calculated the situation, thinking:
My charms must be at their height

now would be a good time to
rush into His
arms,

maybe He won't drop me
so quick.”
― Mirabai

“My lover's gone off
to some foreign country,
sopping wet at our doorway
I watch the clouds rupture.
Mira says, nothing can harm him.
This passion has yet
to be slaked.”
― Mirabai

“I came for the sake of love-devotion; seeing the world, I wept.”
― Mīrābāī

“The Great Dancer is my husband," Mira says, "rain washes off all the other colors.”
― Mirabai, For Love of the Dark One:Song of Miraba

“The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.”
― Mīrābāī, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

“Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?”
― Mīrābāī, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

“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.”
― Mirabai, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

“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.”
― Mīrābāī, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

“My Love, He is here inside. He does not leave.
He does not need to arrive.”
― Mīrābāī

“Awake to the Name

To be born in a human body is rare,
Don’t throw away the reward of your past good
deeds.
Life passes in an instant – the leaf doesn’t go back to
the branch.
The ocean of rebirth sweeps up all beings hard,
Pulls them into its cold-running, fierce, implacable
currents.
Giridhara, your name is the raft, the one safe-passage
over.
Take me quickly.
All the awake ones travel with Mira, singing the
name.
She says with them: Get up, stop sleeping – the days
of a life are short.

”
― Mīrābāī, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems