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?)
