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It was at this time also that the famous Saint Mira of hallowed memory began to manifest her lead of light through Indira's visions, giving her song after ecstatic song in flawless Hindi verse which I then set to tune and sang athrill. To date Indira has dictated more than eight hundred such songs, sometimes, alas, while literally gasping for breath due to her cardiac asthma. As to the historicity of Mira, this noble queen of Mewar and composer of devotional songs, which are sung to this day throughout India, had given up her throne and palace and family to become a wandering mendicant in the name of Krishna, the Lord of her heart. I need here to mention only that from the time of her earthly embodiment in the sixteenth century upto the present day, her life and songs have electrified countless admirers and devotees drawn by the dateless message of Krishna and God-love. Dadaji writes in the Pilgrims of the Stars: ------ "... I published in 1950 her first book of verses which I called Shrutanjali, that is, "songs heard," not composed. Over a hundred of these songs I translated into Bengali and sang with great joy. I also translated sixteen into English. Thereafter Indira went on daily dictating the songs she had heard - till I found, to my thrilled amazement, that she had given altogether more than eight hundred songs which were published serially in six books, an achievement indeed!" "I have seen a great many miracle happen under Indira's beneficent aegis, but to me the greatest miracle has always been her gift of hearing such lovely, inspiring songs and then dictating them year in year out in an endless procession of sparkling, purling waves. I would only add my personal belief that these songs were and are sung to Indira by Mira in person. I know my conviction is not likely to be shared by many, some of whom call Mira Indira's alter ego. But one thing I learned from Indira which has stood me in good stead many a time that I need not lean at all on outside support or endorsement for my honest convictions stemming from personal experience. Which is not to suggest, however, that Indira's contact with Mira is lacking support from those whose opinions are worth hearing in such matters. During the brief period that Sri Aurobindo had to observe the phenomenon, he endorsed it as authentic in three of his letters to me." ------ | |||||||||
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