Meerabai was a princess Hindu

Meerabai was a princess Hindu
mystical and a devotee of Lord
Krishna from Rajasthan . She was
one of the most significant
figures Sant of the Vaishnava
bhakti movement. Some 1,300
pads (poems) commonly known
as bhajans (sacred songs) are
attributed to her. These are
popular throughout India and
have been published in several
translations worldwide. In the
bhakti tradition, they are in
passionate praise of Lord Krishna .
In most of her poems she has
described her unconditional love
for her Lord. She has tried to
give the message that Krishna
bhakti is the best way to live life
as it helps us forget our desires
and this in turn helps us attain
moksha (liberation).
Details of her life, which has
been the subject of several films,
are pieced together from her
poetry and stories recounted by
her community and are of
debatable historical authenticity,
particularly those that connect
her with the later Tansen. On
the other hand, the traditions
that make her a disciple of Guru
Ravidas in Chittor, her association
with Tulsidas and later
interactions with Rupa Goswami
in Vrindavan are consonant with
the usual account of her life.
Biography
Meera's temple to Krishna at
Chittorgarh Fort , Rajasthan
Meera was a princess. [1] Her
father, Ratan Singh, was the
youngest son of Rao Duda ruler
of Merta and belonged to the
Rathore clan. Rao Duda was son
of Rao Jodha ruler and founder of
Jodhpur.[ citation needed ]
As a child Meera became deeply
enamored by a Murti of Giridhar
Gopal, Lord Krishna, owned by a
holy man; she was inconsolable
until she possessed it and kept it
all her life. [ citation needed ]
(Some myths say that Meera saw
a wedding procession of a bride-
groom and asked her mother
about her husband, then her
mother took her in front of the
deity Lord Krishna and told her
that He was her husband.) Then
she was around seven years old.
She was highly influenced by her
father as he was a worshiper of
Krishna. [citation needed]
Meera's mother, Veer Kumari,
died during child birth when
Meera was around seven. Meera
was then sent to her
grandfather, Rao Duda and
father's older brother, Rao Viram
Dev at Merta. It is here that she
received her
education.[ citation needed ]
Her uncle, Rao Viram Dev
arranged Meera’s marriage, in
1516 when she was eighteen,
with prince Bhoj Raj, the son of
Rana Sanga of Chittor . She was
not happy with her marriage as
she considered herself already
married to Krishna. She went to
live in Chittor accompanied by
her childhood mate, Mithula,
who stayed with Meera till the
end. [ citation needed ]
Her new family did not approve
of her piety and devotion when
she refused to worship their
family deity- Tulaja Bhawani
(Durga). [citation needed]
The Meera Museum in Merta
City
Rajputana had remained fiercely
independent of the Delhi
Sultanate, the Islamic regime
that otherwise ruled Hindustan
after the conquests of Timur . But
in the early 16th century AD the
central Asian conqueror Babur
laid claim to the Sultanate and
some Rajputs supported him
while others lost their lives in
battle with him. Her husband's
death in battle (in 1521 AD) was
only one of a series of losses
Meera experienced. Her father-
in-law, Rana Sanga respected and
protected Meera Bai. However;
he also died after a few years
and Meera was then persecuted
by the rest of her in-laws. She
found Krishna to be her only
support and resisted the wishes
of her in-laws to give up her
worship of Giridhar Gopal. Her
grief turned into a passionate
spiritual devotion that inspired in
her countless poems drenched
with separation and
longing. [ citation needed ]
Meera's love for Krishna was at
first a private thing but at some
moment it overflowed into an
ecstasy that led her to sing and
dance in public and other
religious folk. She would quietly
leave the Chittor fort at night
and join Satsangs (religious get-
togethers) in the town below.
Her brother-in-law, the new
ruler of Chittorgarh,
Vikramaditya, was a cruel youth
who strongly objected to Meera's
devotion, her mixing with
commoners and her lack of
feminine modesty. Vikramaditya
made several attempts to kill
Meera. [2] Her sister-in-law Uda
bai is said to have spread
defamatory gossip.
According to some
myths [citation needed] Meera's
brother-in-law Vikramaditya, who
later became king of Chittor,
after Bhojraj's death, tried to
harm Meera in many ways, such
as:
The famous one is that he
mixed poison in the prasadam or
charna-amritam of Krishna and
made her drink it. But by God's
grace, Krishna changed it to
Amrit.
He pinned iron nails in Meera's
bed, but, again by God's grace
they turned into rose petals. As
she explains in one of her
couplets 'शूल सेज राणा नै भेजी,
दीज्यो मीरां सुलाय/सांझ भई
मिरां सोवन लागी, मानों फूल बिछाय'
He put a snake in a flower
basket and told her that it was a
gift from him to her Lord, but
when she opened it actually
became a gift- a garland.
There are many more in a similar
vein.
At some time Meera declared
herself a disciple of the guru
Raidas ("guru miliyaa raidasjee").
After unbearable torture she left
Chittor. First she went to Merta
where she was still not satisfied
and after sometime left for the
centre of Krishnaism, Vrindavan.
She considered herself to be a
reborn gopi , Lalita, mad with
love for Krishna. Folklore informs
us of a particular incident where
she expressed her desire to
engage in a discussion about
spiritual matters with Rupa
Goswami , a direct disciple of
Chaitanya and one of the
foremost saints of Vrindavan at
that time who, being a
renunciate celibate, refused to
meet a woman. Meera replied
that the only true man ( purusha)
in this universe is Lord Krishna.
[3] She continued her pilgrimage,
"danced from one village to
another village, almost covering
the whole of north India". [4]
One story has her appearing in
the company of Kabir in Kashi ,
once again causing affront to
social mores. She seems to have
spent her last years as a pilgrim
in Dwarka, Gujarat . It is said that
Mirabai disappeared into the
Dwarkadhish Murti (Image of
Lord Krishna) in front of a full
audience of
onlookers.