Mirabai: Unbreakable, O Lord

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Unbreakable, O Lord

Mirabai, Mirabai poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Mirabai
(1498 - 1565?) Timeline

English version by
Jane Hirshfield

Yoga / Hindu : Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama)

16th Century

Unbreakable, O Lord,
Is the love
That binds me to You:
Like a diamond,
It breaks the hammer that strikes it.

My heart goes into You
As the polish goes into the gold.
As the lotus lives in its water,
I live in You.

Like the bird
That gazes all night
At the passing moon,
I have lost myself dwelling in You.

O my Beloved --
Return.

-- from Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment, Edited by Daniel Halpern

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Themes

Birds

Heart

Lotus

Lover and Beloved

Moon

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	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai, Translated by Andrew Schelling
	Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment, Edited by Daniel Halpern
	Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
	Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, Translated by Robert Bly

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