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What Mirabai Meant When She Said She Was Already Married

The story most people know goes like this: a Rajput princess refused her husband's bed, sang love songs to a deity, and was eventually left alone to wander. The family was shamed. The husband was humiliated. Mirabai was difficult. That reading misses the point entirely, and it misses it because…

MyLifeXP · Nov 11

What Amir Khusrau Wrote About Nizamuddin Auliya That Reads Like India's Most Honest Love Poem

The man who made a saint weepWhen Nizamuddin Auliya heard Khusrau sing for the first time, he wept. Not the composed, inward weeping of a man in prayer. He wept openly, in front of his disciples, in the khanqah at Ghiyaspur in Delhi. Khusrau was perhaps seventeen. He had come…

Times Life · Sep 11

The Anahata Chakra Holds Both Love and Grief Because the Heart Cannot Choose Between Them

The Word Means Unstruck, and YetAnahata translates as "unstruck", the sound that arises without two things colliding. It names the fourth chakra, the green wheel spinning at the centre of your chest, and it is supposed to represent the frequency that exists before contact, before impact, before anything has had…

Times Life · Jul 19