Mirabai

So doesn't matter, you know.

Compare yourself with Mirabai, you know.

How much resistance was for Mirabai in his family.

And, and you look like Mirabai to me because her husband was supportive.

Her husband was 100% supportive for her.

It was the other members of the family who were against it, you know, whatever reason.

So all are married to Krishna.

There are famous stories about it and I think it was Mirabai when she travels all the way to Mathura, Vrindavan and she wants to meet a saint who doesn't see women.

So he says that, well, I can't see women.

We still have some sampradayas like that.

So Mirabai's answer is very beautiful.

She says, I had heard that in Vrindavan there are only women.

There is a man also living here.

It just won't happen.

The universe.

You know, we hear the story of Mirabai falling in love with Krishna.

It's very similar.

You just feel absolutely abandoned, and you're just filled with joy with the universe.

Often people say, there is issues about, why do you get milk in the ashram? So, you know, I have heard people and such even devotees, quoting studies, milk is poison.

I said, we belong to the land of Mirabai.

If poison is given in the name of Lord, we drink it and it strengthens us, it liberates us.

I mean, anyways, those who want to believe it, they are business.

And in that, they talk about, you know, the different ways in which Krishna, you can endear yourself to Krishna or you can, you know, the various bhavas.

So can you throw a little bit of light? Because like there's on the one hand, there's a Mirabai who's a devotee of Krishna.

On the one hand, on the other hand, there's a Sudama.

So there's so many different ways.

And so these Dravidians maybe, or these Aryan outcasts, whatever type of people they were, they had a kind of ritual approach or they had a kind of theology or soteriology that was scary because it was foreign, because it was different, but it was also thrilling.

And that's why when we gave that lecture on the Indian baddie, Mirabai, you know, it was Meera Jayanti and we did a tribute to Meera and we talked about her as the primordial Indian baddie.

We described how like, there's something about Chandalini that is both attractive and detestable.

She brings into society that which was never there.

But also we crave that newness.

We crave the inspiration that it brings.

So we both hate and love Chandalini the way we both hate and love Mirabai because everybody loves Mirabai until she's your daughter.

And we both hate and love these Shaivas, these early Shaivas, Shishna Devatas.

It is all an ocean.

Everything is kind of destroyed like mirabai also sings about this in a bhajan she will say i went to the guru asking for how will i cross this samsara what stroke of swimming i will do will it be a friend stroke will it be a butterfly stroke will it be a back float what should i do this ocean is bothering me then the guru did the magic she will sing in it the bhavasagara sukha gayi The entire ocean dried up because it is all an ocean.

When you know that Jagat is Mithya, then where is this Shoka? So that is what happens to the Jnani.

Then this body, that the Jnani's body, whatever happens to that body, who cares? So he may be in Kashi.