The Heat of Midnight Tears

Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening,
Kissing his feet, resistance broken, tears all night.

If we could reach the Lord through immersion in water,
I would have asked to be born a fish in this life.
If we could reach Him through nothing but berries and wild nuts,
Then surely the saints would have been monkeys when they came from the womb!
If we could reach him by munching lettuce and dry leaves,
Then the goats would surely go to the Holy One before us!

If the worship of stone statues could bring us all the way,
I would have adored a granite mountain years ago.

Mirabai says: The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.

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Mirabai was a 16th-century Hindu mystic, poet and devotee of Krishna. Her reference to Midnight Tears can mean a number of things. Typically we relate tears to grief or sadness. Midnight can be interpreted as unseen or unacknowledged grief that is out of the “daylight” of awareness. Midnight Tears can refer to unattended grief.

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