There is thus always a latent potential for resistance and challenge to the status quo in the telling of her tale, a potential that can readily be developed by an alternate community as people identify with her character and plight in different ways and imagine her life differently. Order now and we'll deliver when available. For example, G. Kenneth Bradford in an essay entitled ‘Romantic love as path: tensions between erotic desire and security needs’ in For others she embodies the person who knows fully what matters and what she is to do in life, and pursues it, in works such as As she was by Sue Monk Kidd, Mira is credited with being a companion and inspiration to many women but also men on the spiritual journey and invoked by those who would offer guidance to others along the way, as one who fully embodies and articulates the longing that is a part of the spiritual journey and the courage to step out of expectations. Indeed, Mira's story is often one of the first narratives chosen for such performances, a testament to her continuing relevance as the embodiment of shakti (strength) and bhakti (devotion), of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity, and of the best, in some sense, of what it means to be Hindu, Indian, and human. All right reserved. ), Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. A Limb Just Moved is a poem attributed to Mirabai, a Hindu mystic and Bahkti saint who lived in the sixteenth century and was well-known for her incredible devotion to Krishna, and to her faith. I am grateful to have Alston's paperback.
Poet Janine Canan includes translations of two poems of Mirabai first in her Images from familiar songs like ‘Jogi, don’t go' are woven across multiple verses to create a new and yet familiar description of the saint:Canan traces the trajectory of Mira's life away from the home of her grandfather and in-laws into a life of wandering, and though her poem is filled with very specific references to Krishna devotion and specific popular Mirabai songs, the emotions are raw and universal, her words capturing the overwhelming hunger and explosive emotions that attend impassioned desire:Canan does not tell us what Mira has meant to her personally, but the depth of emotion and breadth of imagery in her presentation of Mira and Krishna's love suggest that she has thoroughly immersed herself in the story and songs and is speaking from inside this experience.Other poets too invoke Mira within their works. Wilson in 1828, and Col. James Todd in Works in English on Mirabai were also being published in India by Indian authors. Mirabai … Sun and moon are her ornaments, the cosmic serpent her braid.
Her poems … Phenomenal Woman, Still I Rise, The Road Not Taken, If You Forget Me, Dreams Three introductory essays deal with her life, her place in the Bhakti movement and the characteristics of her poetry. Such cultural and religious transformations are not a new phenomenon, but they do become problematic when people might then want to make conclusions about the sixteenth-century Hindu woman saint based on reading them.And such conclusions are drawn. Mirabai Poems. Im using an online business opportunity I heard about and I'AM made such great money. ‘A few words about Mirabai’. Clearly her story and songs attributed to her express fundamental Hindu but also Indian experiences and values, hopes and aspirations, that speak to and for people in wide-ranging cultural, religious, and social locations.Mirabai's story and songs have also been carried by South Asian people as they have migrated to other regions of the world, so we find her in the Caribbean and the South Pacific, in Europe and Africa, and in North America. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed.
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