as interviewed by Dilip Roy

Dilip: How do you like Mira's Bhajans?

The saint Mirabai is the most famous of the women saints of India and can be ranked among the foremost of the mystics of the world.

The normal place of women in India has from time immemorial been in the seclusion and sanctity of the home. The ideal of the vast majority of the Indian women have been Sita and Savitri -- the epic characters who embody the virtues of self-sacrifice, patience and one-pointed devotion to their husbands; this ideal of the chaste wife (pativrata) has been further ennobled by its fusion with the mother ideal.

Love is something absolutely unselfish, that which has no thought beyond the glorification and adoration of the object upon which our affections are bestowed. It is a quality which bows down and worships and asks nothing in return. Merely to love is the sole request that true love has to ask.

It is said of a hindu saint (Mirabai)  that when she was married, she said to her husband, the king, that she was already married.

"To whom?" asked the king.

"To God," was the reply.

Religious experience, ineffable as such, can be transmitted only by means of similes, of symbols, and rituals, which like so many languages, are different not only in every country and  civilization  but even more  within the same  religious system, in conformity  with  the various levels of human understanding, a matter not merely of intelligence, but rather of the heart. The Gita has, therefore, acknowledged a number of approaches to God -- whatever we may understand under this term -- but has likewise insisted on the primary need of selfless love to God  and to all life emanating from  Him.

from the introduction to "The Devotional Poem of Mirabai"

There is nothing highly wrought about Mira's style, and no erotic element in her poetry whatsoever.
But with her they are instruments used to express a deep and personally felt emotion.  She may use the marriage-bed as a symbol of mystical union with God in the manner of Saint -- poets, or as a symbol of the devotee's readiness to give the Lord all that is in his power. But in Mira's poetry there is no tendency to luxuriate in devotional feelings tinged with eroticism.