Mirabai saw Krishna in all beings and all beings in Krishna; this non-dual vision shows how romantic or intimate love can expand into the universal Brahmaviharas.
Mirabai's devotion to Krishna was intensely personal—she loved him as her sole beloved, her husband, her god. Yet her non-dual understanding meant she saw his divine nature everywhere: in the servant, the stranger, the enemy. This is not dilution of love but its deepest expansion. Applied to Buddhist Brahmaviharas, this teaches that our intimate relationships—romantic love, family bonds—are not obstacles to universal loving-kindness but its training ground and gateway. The person we love most reveals the mechanism of love itself: how the heart opens, what barriers we hold, where we defend against true meeting. As we practice examining that intimate relationship with honesty, the same metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha naturally extend outward. Mirabai's non-dual vision suggests that loving your partner as Krishna means seeing divinity in their being, and this same seeing then transforms how you encounter all beings. The Brahmaviharas are not four separate practices but one love expressed in infinite directions—intimate and universal simultaneously.
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