5 Quotes by Mīrābāī

Take no pride in the body,It will soon be mingling with the dust.This life is like the sporting of sparrows,It will end with the onset of the night.

Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?

The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.

Awake to the NameTo be born in a human body is rare,Don’t throw away the reward of your past gooddeeds.Life passes in an instant – the leaf doesn’t go back tothe branch.The ocean of rebirth sweeps up all beings hard,Pulls them into its cold-running, fierce, implacablecurrents.Giridhara, your name is the raft, the one safe-passage over.Take me quickly.All the awake ones travel with Mira, singing thename.She says with them: Get up, stop sleeping – the daysof a life are short.

My lover's gone offto some foreign country,sopping wet at our doorwayI watch the clouds rupture.Mira says, nothing can harm him.This passion has yetto be slaked.