Saints of India – MeeraBai

This Times Music app features a musical tribute to Meera Bai 14981547. She was from an aristocratic family of Rajasthan, India. She was a Hindu mystical singer and a great devotee of Lord Krishna. She sang more than a thousand Bhajans in passionate praise of Lord Krishna and had reportedly declared that she was married to him.
She was the granddaughter of the founder of Jodhpur, Rao Jodha of Mandore. From childhood, she was enamoured only with Lord Krishnas idol, but her husband, Prince Bhoj Raj, the eldest son of Rana Sanga of Chittor, did not support her religiousness, enthusiastically. Later, when the Prince was killed in battle with the Central Asian conquerors, she became more and more passionate with spiritual devotion. The Rajput princess had started singing and dancing in ecstatic state, even in the midst of commoners, and in the streets. Her brotherinlaw, Vikramaaditya, who became the ruler, tried to poison her, and her sisterinlaw spread defamatory gossips about her.

Soon, she left the palace and went in pilgrimage all over North India, singing and dancing, as she considered herself as Lalita, one of the Gopikas, the Maids in love with Lord Krishna. She was reportedly refused audience with a very famous saint of Vrindavan, Rupa Goswami. Being a celibate, he refused to meet a woman, for which she seemed to have declared that except for Lord Krishna, all are women.

The characteristics of her poetry are the complete surrender and union with Lord Krishna. She spent her last years in Dwaraka of Gujarat, India. The Krishna Temple at Chittorgarh Fort, Rajasthan, is still being revered as her personal temple.

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