Meera was a devotee who had completely merged herself in Krishna consciousness. After her marriage, she requested her husband to build a temple for Krishna. The Rana built for her a temple in marble. Meera spent all the time in the temple singing bhajans oblivious of the outside world.
The Rana, who allowed Meera to carry on her worship of Krishna
as agreed to by him before the marriage, got vexed with her complete absorption in Krishna and
prohibited her from going to the temple and closed its doors to prevent her from going there.
Meera felt: "The Rana may bar me from the temple which he has built. But who can bar me from
seeking the Krishna who resides in the temple of my heart?"
Meera's thoughts were centred on Krishna installed in Dwaraka. She ran towards Dwaraka
through forests and hills, defying storm and rain, singing all the way and calling on "Krishna !
Krishna !"
Reaching Dwaraka, she entered the temple but found the doors of the sanctum closed.
Despite all her efforts, the doors would not open. She cried out "Oh Krishna ! Do you think with
the cymbals in one hand and tambura in the other how can I hold your lotus feet ? See, I am
throwing them away. I shall not give you up and you cannot get away from me. Abandoning
everything, I will cling to your feet."
Crying in anguish, Meera knocked her head against the
door of the sanctum. That very moment she fell into a swoon. An efflugent flame emerged from
her body and merged into the Krishna idol.
Few can understand the ways in which devotion manifests itself among the lovers of God.
Human relations come and go. But the association with God is eternal.
(From the Divine Discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
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