A queen’s divine love

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Swami Chaitanya Keerti [1]

Why the world with all its technological advancement and thousands of channels of entertainment is day by day becoming dry and boring? The main reason is today the mind rules over our heart, mathematics rules over poetry, materialism rules over spirituality — and very excessively.

The song and dance and ecstasy and celebration are missing from our life. That’s why we live a miserable, juiceless life.
At such an uncertain time, it is best to be reminded of the songs and dance of mystics such as Meera that can change our environment for the better. A little bit of madness, beyond the mundane world of mind to experience a real masti, a transcendental space of ecstasy. Meera was madly in love with Krishna who existed thousands of years before her, but for Meera the Lord was always present, dancing and playing on his flute. Krishna leela made Meera dissolve into the Lord and have an ultimate experience of advaita (oneness) through devotion. The blissfulness of her bhakti gave birth to the unique celestial songs that keep resounding in the hearts of millions of people in India and around the world. These are the songs of divine love.
Meera says: “Main to prem diwani hoon (I am madly in love, so madly loved that I am mad, mad, mad!)” She was a queen but she renounced the palace to be a beggar. Playing her veena she danced in the marketplace, from village to village, town to town, city to city, singing her heart out, pouring herself totally.
Osho gave several discourses on Meera’s songs and said: “Meera is one of the most beautiful women in the world. Perhaps no other woman has reached the heights she had reached. The day the space within her opened, she forgot her queenly status. She started dancing in the streets of her own capital. Naturally, the family was very much disturbed — a queen dancing in the marketplace!”
She danced all over the country. Nobody knows how many people understood the dance. She sang beautiful songs. They are not philosophical treatises, but they have beautiful gaps. If you can catch those gaps, you can enter into the unknown. Her dances are a language of a totally different calibre. If you can understand her dance, perhaps something will start dancing in you.
All that is needed is an openness, a receptivity so that her dance can trigger the dormant energy in your being. And if you can also dance, you will have communicated, you will have understood what meditation is.