Analysis Of The Writings Of Mira

An Elaborative Analysis of the Writings of Mira
The present paper explores the treatment of love and devotion in the selected poems of Mira. Her devotion to Lord Krishna is incomparable greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation. Mira used elegant words in her poetry. In her poems, the elevated thought of true love for Lord Krishna results in an elevating effect morally, linguistically and artistically. Her poems build a platform of Divine understanding of the nature of love. Mira is the moth that burnt itself on the flame of love for Giridhar. She longs for meeting with Giridhar and burns herself like incense that fills the temple of devotion with the fragrance of love.
Mira is a genius in writing poems. Her
She has no one to call as her own except Lord Krishna. She is unable to decide as what to do when she has abandoned her family’s honor and the God they used to pray. This is depicted in the poem ‘Mine is Gopal’:
Father, mother, brother, relative:
I have none to call my own.
I’ve forsaken both God, and the family’s honor: what should I do?
She joined the company of the saints without getting affected by the criticism of the worldly people. She used to wear a saree or a blanket of cloth on her body like a saint. She took off her finery of pearls and corals and strung a garland of wildwood flowers, accepting herself as a maid-servant of Lord Krishna as depicted in the poem ‘Mine is Gopal’:
I’ve sat near the holy ones, and I’ve lost shame before the people.
I’ve torn my scarf into shreds;
I’m all wrapped up in a blanket.
I took off my finery of pearls and
I came for the sake of love-devotion; seeing the world, I wept.
Mira is the maidservant of the Mountain-Holder:
Now with love
He takes me across to the further shore.
Mira expresses her love-sick condition in this poem. She conveys that she is mad with love for Lord Krishna. No other person in the world understands her plight, that is, Lord Krishna’s promise to marry Mira. A person who got wounded can only understand the agonies of the other wounded person. In the same way, a person who suffered the pain of separation from his or her lover can only understand the pain in her heart. She is burning in the fire of love being separated from Lord Krishna since time immemorial. I am mad with love and no one understands my plight.
Only the wounded understand the agonies of the wounded, when the fire rages in the