Devotion is a painting by Surbhi Grover which was uploaded on June 7th, 2013.
Title
Devotion
Artist
Surbhi Grover
Medium
Painting - Water Color On Paper
Description
Story of Immorttal Love - Mirabai & Lord Krishna
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Hindu poet, saint, and lover of Lord Krishna, Mirabai lived a remarkably nontraditional life for a woman of the early 1500s. When she was young, her family arranged for her to marry a prince, boosting her social standing and her standard of living greatly. However, unlike the majority of women from her time, Mirabai did not look forward to such a fortunate arrangement. She was entirely devoted to Lord Krishna, the Dark One, a primary Hindu deity known for his loving bond with humans and his power to vanquish evil. Her love and devotion to her god outweighed her need for marriage and family. Mirabai refused to love the prince and suffered hardships for the rest of her life because of her nontraditional behavior.
Mirabai saw Krishna as her lover and her god. Her poetry is both erotic and spiritual and her language that of a devotee who is aware of both the reality of her own world as well as the depth of her love for her chosen deity. Mirabai's poetry was written in the Bhakti tradition, which was a popular poetic movement that produced verse in devotion to a marriage between devotee and deity.
Many of her poems discuss the choice she made to turn away from marriage to a human and to marry herself, instead, to her god:
"I have chosen the Indestructible for my refuge,
Him whom the snake of death
Will not devour."
Uploaded
June 7th, 2013
