Sohbet of the Week (15 - 25)

Sufi Poems – Mirabai - 20

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.

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All I do is breathing

Something has reached out

and taken in the beams of my eyes.

There is a longing, it is for his body,

for every hair of that dark body.

All I was doing was being,

and the Dancing Energy came by my house.

His face looks curiously like the moon,

I saw it from the side, smiling.

My family says: 'Don't ever see him again!'

And they imply things in a low voice.

But my eyes have their own life;

they laugh at rules, and know whose they are.

I believe I can bear on my shoulders

whatever you want to say of me.

Mira says: ‘Without the energy

that lifts mountains,

how am I to live?’

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Heartily,

Puran

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