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Sohbet of the Week (39 - 25) Sufi Poems – Mirabai - 32 Mirabai (1498-1546) was an Indian mystic and poetess. Her very personalized ecstatic songs of love, praise and lamentation have remained alive through the centuries and are still recited and sung by Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and Christians alike on the Indian subcontinent today * * *
A Cowherd Girl
The plums tasted sweet to the unlettered desert-tribe girl, but what manners! To chew into each!
She was ungainly, low-caste, ill-mannered and dirty, but the god took the fruit she'd been sucking.
Why? She'd know how to love. She might not distinguish splendor from filth but she'd tasted the nectar of passion.
Might not know any Veda, but a chariot swept her away - now she frolics in heaven, ecstatically bound to her god.
The Lord of Fallen Fools, says Mira, will save anyone who can practice rapture like that.
I myself in a previous birth was a cowherding girl at Gokul.
* * * Heartily, Puran |
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Dear friends, here is a wonderful website - an overview over all the many outstanding poets which the Indian Sufi Culture has brought in the course of the many centuries.
Dear friends, here are the collected 'Sohbets' 2025, much joy listening! |
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