1. Lord! I have completely surrendered myself to you. It is up to you to take me across the ocean of samsar, the way you know best.
2. I have wandered all over the so called holy places, sixty eight in number, yet my mind has not become humble, and does not want to accept my nothingness.
3. Lord Murari - Bansidhar, the lover of your devotees (gopis) please, please hear my request. There is none in this world who belongs to me.
4. Mira is your servant, she is at your mercy. She trusts you and you alone. Please help me attain that freedom where one does not have to go through births and deaths again and again. Let this drama of suffering be over for me once and for all.

 

Commentary:

If there is one repetition in the Gita, it is the Lord's constant advice to us to completely surrender to Him (18: 65,66) "abandoning" ourselves fearlessly. Ours is to surrender the fruits of actions and desires for perishables and then trust fully that the Lord, who alone knows how, when, where and why, will bring us to a safer shore, the shore where there is Eternal Joy.

 

"Ours is not to ask when and why but to do and die," a famous poet has wisely said. No matter how many scriptural books we read, gurus we visit, mantras we chant and pictures and statues of saints we keep, unless we have dissolved our ego, nothing has been achieved by these outer activities.

 

"A blind man can lead another blind into a ditch only," says Katha Upanishad. Mostly our rituals and religious activities increase our ego rather than reduce it. When, even so called dharma gurus themselves are victims of lust and greed, one has to resort to the saintly advice of Mirabai, who is a living Gita. Visiting temples, churches and other holy places are good only if they purify us. Don't visit it as a duty or to show off. No! It is not better than not doing anything. We are supposed to do better things - through pure service where name and fame has no place since it is contradictory to our real goal of happiness.

 

Time and again, wise saints tell us that we have no real friend or relatives in this world. Our friends and relatives are around for mutual benefits. These worldly benefits result in ashes ultimately. As long as we have even an ounce of worldly support, God remains far from us. Know for the sure that until and unless we have abandoned everything (which is being otherwise removed from us anyway) we will have only suffering and repentance in the end. Treat everything, including our own body, therefore as God's property to be duly returned without assuming its ownership. Once we have purified as per Mira's advice, we will have faith that everything will be okay in the end. This faith is a gift of god. We will be free at last. This alone is the purpose of  human life.

--Swami Radhanandaji