The Sublime Vision - LIGHTGRID - Lichtnetz - REDDELUZ2024-03-29T06:46:05Zhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/forum/topics/the-sublime-vision?commentId=4024228%3AComment%3A474440&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe plums tastedsweet to the…tag:lightgrid.ning.com,2016-01-09:4024228:Comment:4744402016-01-09T08:24:34.536ZJillianhttps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/Jillian
<p>The plums tasted<br></br>sweet to the unlettered desert-tribe girl-<br></br>but what manners! To chew into each!</p>
<p>She was ungainly, low-caste, ill mannered and dirty,<br></br>but the god took the fruit she’d been sucking.</p>
<p>Why? She knew how to love.<br></br>She might not distinguish<br></br>splendor from filth<br></br>but she’d tasted the nectar of passion.</p>
<p>Might not know any Veda,<br></br>but a chariot swept her away-<br></br>now she frolics in heaven, ecstatically bound<br></br>to her god.</p>
<p>The Lord…</p>
<p>The plums tasted<br/>sweet to the unlettered desert-tribe girl-<br/>but what manners! To chew into each!</p>
<p>She was ungainly, low-caste, ill mannered and dirty,<br/>but the god took the fruit she’d been sucking.</p>
<p>Why? She knew how to love.<br/>She might not distinguish<br/>splendor from filth<br/>but she’d tasted the nectar of passion.</p>
<p>Might not know any Veda,<br/>but a chariot swept her away-<br/>now she frolics in heaven, ecstatically bound<br/>to her god.</p>
<p>The Lord of Fallen Fools, says Mira,<br/>will save anyone who can practice rapture like that-<br/>I myself in a previous birth<br/>was a cowherding girl<br/>at Gokul.</p>
<p>- Mirabai</p>