Mirabai Quotes

“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

“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