Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

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Contents
A Few Words About Mirabai
Mirabai’s Teachings
I: The Dancing Energy Came by My House
	All I Was Doing Was Breathing
	The Dagger
	Mira Has Finished with Waiting
	It’s True I Went to the Market
	Mira the Milkmaid
	The Fish and the Crocodile
	Polish into Gold
	A Dream of Marriage
	Ankle Bells
	The Flute
	The Rope of Jasmine Blossoms
	His Hair
	The Gooseberry Patch
	To My Brother-in-Law Rana
	Fate Is Strange
	Not Hiding Not Seeking
	Don’t Go, Don’t Go
	Why Mira Can’t Come Back to Her Old House
II: The Ocean of Separation
	The Necklace
	How This Will Go
	The Arrow
	Heading for the Ocean
	Don’t Tell Me No, Mother
	Where Did You Go?
	Mira Asks Only to Join with the Elephants & Parrots
	Mira Is Jasmine
	The Cuckoo Calls a Beloved Who Comes
	Only the Beloved Can Open the Blossoming Spring
	Mira Is Mad with Love
	In All My Lives
	The Door
	The Storm Clouds
III: Love Has Come Home with the Rains
	Mira the Bee
	No Longer Thirsty
	The Coffer with the Poisonous Snake
	Mira the Slave
	Awake to the Name
	The Long Drought Is Over
	Near the Throne
	Drunk for Life
	Water through the Fingers
	Wild Plums Are Sweetest
	Mira Swims Free
	Mira the Barterer
	The Clouds
	To Dance for the Dark One Is All the Clothing Mira Needs
	Faithfulness
	Mira the Lotus
	The Heat of Midnight Tears
	No More Drought
Afterword by John Stratton Hawley
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