One of the greatest saints of all times is Mirabai of Rajasthan, India of the sixteenth century. We are of course interested not in the personality as such but the spiritual message and its joy as she experienced it.

Gitananda has attempted to provide here some of Mirabai's bhajans, an English translation, and a commentary for those who sincerely want to benefit from the message in a bhajan. The Gita itself is a Great Bhajan.The reader will note that translation of the original feelings and meanings is not possible, so we have done the best we can. We are not looking for scholarship but the bhajan's substance and an immediate implementation of its teachings after grasping the meaning.

May our exposition of Mirabai's Love be in the spirit of true Love, however minute. We thank her blessings with perfect humility as often as we can. If in our exposition of her Bhajans as Love songs we fail to bring out the entire Truth, this is but our human frailty. In our exposition of Mirabai's bhajans, we need not use constant references to other incarnations, for Mirabai’s Love stands out on its own. It would be an injustice to her Love and Perfection, and it would also be a mere show of our vanity of knowledge or literary art. Subtle vanity is difficult to overcome. May she teach us to express Love in its simplest form, in an innocent child-like manner without seeking a name for ourselves. The reader will equally assume responsibility on her/his part and keep that in mind with perfect humility.