A Leak In The Safe

Found/Acquired Pune ,India

1800-1805

The British Museum

Love has stained my body

to the color of the One Who Holds Up Mountains.

When I dressed in the world’s five fabrics,

I only played hide and seek  —

For disguised though I was, the Lifting One caught me.

And seeing his beauty, I offered him all that I am.

Friends, let those whose Beloved is absent write letters —

Mine dwells in the heart, and neither enters nor leaves.

 Mira has given herself to her Lord.

Day or night, she serves only Him.

— Mirabai (1498-1565?)