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Meera
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Meera, better known as Mirabai, and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. She is mentioned in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely known and a cherished figure in the Bhakti movement by about 1600. In her poems, she expressed her surrender towards Krishna often referring to herself as his daasi (servant).
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Meera, also known as Mira, was an Indian poet, writer, and mystic. She was a female member of the Rathore family and held the noble title of princess. Born in Merta City, she worked within the fields of poetry, literature, Vaishnavism, and the Bhakti movement. Her religious worldview was Hinduism, and she spoke Hindi.
Her professional activity spanned from 1516 to 1546. She died by accidental drowning in Dwarka. Her works have been described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. While the name Meera Lester is associated with works including *Healthiest You Ever* and *365 Ways to Relax Bundle*, these are distinct from the historical figure’s literary contributions to the Bhakti movement.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 46
Top works
- Healthiest You Ever
- 365 Ways to Relax Bundle
- Everything Law of Attraction Bundle
- Sacred Travels
- Tout sur la loi de l'attraction
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Key facts
- Religious biography.name
- Mirabai
- Religious biography.image
- Kangra painting of Mirabai, the female Bhakti saint.jpg
- Religious biography.caption
- Kangra painting of Mirabai playing the veena
- Religious biography.birth_name
- Premal
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Kudki, Kingdom of Marwar
- Religious biography.death_date
- c.
- Religious biography.death_place
- Dwarka
- Religious biography.religion
- Hinduism
- Religious biography.known_for
- Poems, Bhakti for Krishna
- Religious biography.honorific prefix
- Sant
- Religious biography.father
- Rao Ratan Singh Rathore
- Religious biography.dynasty
- Rathore (by birth) Sisodia (by marriage)
- Religious biography.mother
- Veer Kanwar
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mira
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of death
- Dwarka
- Occupation
- mystic
- Languages spoken
- Hindi
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Family
- Rathore
- Noble title
- princess
- Field of work
- Bhakti movement
- Movement
- Vaishnavism
- Image
- Meerabai painting.jpg
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- Commons category
- Meera (Mirabai)
- date of death
- 1552-01-01
- date of birth
- 1504-01-01
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- start of work period
- 1516-01-01
- end of work period
- 1546-01-01
- manner of death
- accidental death
- cause of death
- drowning
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Hagiographical variations
- Poetry
- Hindi and Rajasthani
- Ravidas as Mira's Guru
- Sikh literature
- Mirabai's compositions
- Influence
- English translations
- Popular culture
- Film and TV adaptations
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Meera, better known as Mirabai, and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. She is mentioned in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely known and a cherished figure in the Bhakti movement by about 1600. In her poems, she expressed her surrender towards Krishna often referring to herself as his daasi (servant).
Most legends about Mirabai mention her fearless disregard for social and family conventions, her devotion to Krishna, and her persecution by her in-laws for her religious devotion. Her in-laws never liked her passion for music, through which she expressed her devotion, and they considered it an insult to the upper caste people. It is said that amongst her in-laws, her husband was the only one to love and support her in her Bhakti, while some believed him to have opposed it. She has been the subject of numerous folk tales and hagiographic legends, which are inconsistent or widely different in details. According to legend, when her in-laws attempted to murder her with poison, Mirabai tied a sacred thread on a murti of Krishna, trusting in His divine protection, through which she was saved by divine intervention. This legend is sometimes cited as the origin of the ritual of tying rakhi on Krishna's murti.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.