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Only He Knows the Bitterness of Love

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Only he knows the bitterness of love

Who has deeply felt its pangs.

When you are in trouble

No one comes near you:

When fortune smiles.

All come to share the joy.

Love shows no external wound.

But the pain pervades every pore

Devotee Mira offers her body

As a sacrifice to Giridhara for ever.


- Mirabai

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Translated by A.J. Alston

From Devotional Poems of Mirabai

Also in Poetry for the Spirit; Ed Alan Jacobs
 

 

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