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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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from a sense of deprivation and separation, and therefore, every line of her poems is soaked with the pangs of loneliness and dissatisfaction. As her husband died considerably early, she could not enjoy her married life properly; as a result of that she developed depressive tendency and melancholia. Because of her highly emotional bent she felt, every now and then, the heart-rending and deep depression. Life was unbearable to her in the absence of a loving support; she made it good by transferring all her emotions of love (priti) to God Kļšņa, and thus, purifield them by their sublimation. The result was that Mirā turned the most ardent and keen devotee of the Lord Krsna, and became a spriritual person possessing the angelic purity and divine thrill like Caitanya.
Mirābāi was given to the love of Giridhara Gopal Krsna right from her childhood. She came across an idol of Giridhara in her childhood; she was highly fascinated by that idol and craved for securing it from a renunciate who was carrying it. But it is reported that the renunciate came to know in his revelation in dream that the idol was really meant for Mīrā and he was asked to hand it over to Mīrā. At the instructions of the Unknown that person handed over the idol to her, and Mirā loved it most ardently throughout her life.
Mirā believed in general that the samsāra or the worldly life is ever-changing and so it is not everlasting (anitya). The body which we love so much is nothing but a product of the earth, and it returns
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