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Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow: Examine the reason for calling Meera Bai an ascetic figure. Analyze Meera Bai’s relation with Mewar. How was Mirabai - History

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Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Love for the Lord

This is part of a song attributed to Mirabai:
  I will build a funeral pyre of sandalwood and aloe;
  Light it by your own hand
  When I am burned away to cinders;
  Smear this ash upon limbs.
  ... let flame be lost in flame.

In another verse, she sings:
  What can Mewar's ruler do to me?
  If God is angry, all is lost,
  But what can the Rana do?

  1. Examine the reason for calling Meera Bai an ascetic figure.
  2. Analyze Meera Bai’s relation with Mewar.
  3. How was Mirabai unique among the poet-saints of the Bhakti movement?
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  1. i. Meera Bai led a life of asceticism and became a devotional and mystic poet.
    ii. She stood against the conventions of her times.
    iii. She showed her spiritual devotion to Krishna.
  2. Mira Bai was married to the crown prince of Mewar but after a few years, Rana of Mewar died.
  3. i. Mirabai was unique among the poet-saints of the Bhakti movement owing to her socio-economic background as well as her gender.
    ii. Born a princess, she opted for the life of a saint.
    iii. She lived a life of austerity.
    iv. She showed absolute devotion to her beloved Krishna.
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