What's Interesting?

[qos]

This - like many other good things - lifted from mommybird

Pick an interest from my interests page that either 1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or 2) you know something about but can't fathom why yours truly would be interested in it, and demand an explanation. Verily, I will provide.

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Ooooohhhh. . . I would have thought you knew Mirabai. I'm delighted to be the one to introduce you!

Mirabai was a Hindu princess who lived from 1498-1550. She was a devotee of Krishna, and resisted the arranged marriage her parents forced on her because she wanted to give her entire life to her god, whom she addressed as Dark One. Legend has it her in-laws tried to poison her because her religious ecastasies and her refusal to conform to their household infuriated them. Eventually she left her husband and became a wandering saint whose poetry has been preserved down to today.

Her devotional poetry is erotically rich and filled with the yearning of the soul for the Divine.

Come to my bedroom,
I've scattered fresh buds on the couch,
perfumed my body.
Birth after birth I am your servant,
sleep only with you.
Mira's lord does not perish --
one glimpse of the Dark One
is all she requests.

And. .

Your colorful kingdom
just bores me.
Among your subjects no seekers, O Prince,
only trash --
these people are abject!
Prince Ratan Singh,
I strip off my jewelry,
thrown down my bangles,
eye-black and rouge -- gone.
I shake the barrettes from my hair.
Why? Mira has found
a lord who lifts mountains,
a lover who fills her completely.