Mirabai's transformation meant being condemned by her family and society; grieving your old self requires accepting that others may misinterpret your evolution.
When Mirabai left, they called her shameless, mad, a betrayer. Her family couldn't recognize the authenticity emerging as anything but loss and rebellion. One dimension of grief over lost identity is the loneliness of being misunderstood by those who knew your former self. They may see your transformation as rejection of them, as arrogance, as breakdown. Bhakti teaches that becoming your true self almost always means being misread. This concept asks you to distinguish between the pain of genuine loss and the pain of others' misunderstanding. Can you grieve your old identity while accepting that people invested in that version of you may never understand why it had to go? Courage here means proceeding with your transformation even as others mourn the person you were—and even as you mourn her too.
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