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कठण थयां रे माधव मथुरां जाई। कागळ न लख्यो कटकोरे॥ध्रु०॥ अहियाथकी हरी हवडां पधार्या। औद्धव साचे अटक्यारे॥१॥ अंगें सोबरणीया बावा पेर्या। शीर पितांबर पटकोरे॥२॥ गोकुळमां एक रास रच्यो छे। कहां न कुबड्या संग अतक्योरे॥३॥ कालीसी कुबजा ने आंगें छे कुबडी। ये शूं करी जाणे लटकोरे॥४॥ ये छे काळी ने ते छे। कुबडी रंगे रंग बाच्यो चटकोरे॥५॥ मीरा कहे प्रभु गिरिधर नागर। खोळामां घुंघट खटकोरे॥६॥
इति
The Poet
मीराबाई
Mirabai
1498 · 1546
In the vast tradition of Indian devotional literature, Mirabai stands as an absolute force of fearless independence. Born around 1498 into a royal Rajput family in Rajasthan, she rejected every expectation placed upon a woman of her aristocratic stature. Following the death of her husband, she refused to commit Sati, refused to mourn according to courtly protocol, and instead declared herself eternally married to Lord Krishna. Her entire life became an act of spiritual rebellion against feudal patriarchy. She left the palace, mingled with the lower castes, accepted the leather-worker Ravidas as her guru, and composed ecstatic, deeply personal poetry (bhajans) that mapped the fierce agony and joy of divine love. According to enduring historical memory, she survived multiple assassination attempts by her furious in-laws before leaving Mewar entirely. Five centuries later, her voice remains universally alive. Her songs are sung in temples, villages, and classical concerts across the subcontinent. She did not merely write Bhakti poetry; she weaponized devotion to achieve total personal liberation.
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Shri Chaitanya Meets His Mother After Sanyas
This profound work captures one of the most heart wrenching moments in the life of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. After embracing the path of Sanyas, or renunciation, the saint returned to see his grieving mother, Sachi Devi. Majumdar paints the delicate intersection of divine calling and human sorrow. The figures are rendered with the signature lyrical elegance of the Bengal School, where thin, flowing lines and soft, ethereal washes of color convey a spiritual depth that transcends mere form. The mother's posture reflects the overwhelming weight of maternal longing, while Chaitanya, though shaven and draped in the saffron robes of a renunciant, remains the gentle soul whose spiritual transformation has altered the course of their lives forever.
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