Devotion Across Time and Death

Mirabai devoted herself to Krishna across lifetimes—her love transcended the physical body, the social world, even conventional religious forms. When public figures die or are exposed as flawed, devotion is tested. Do we love them only while they live? Do we abandon causes when leaders fall? Bhakti teaches a different path: love that survives betrayal, death, and disillusionment. This doesn't mean blind loyalty; Mirabai's freedom was rooted in her willingness to see clearly. Rather, it means honoring what they gave us, what they stood for, what their example awakened in us—even as we acknowledge their full humanity, including their failures. Sustaining devotion to a dead figure becomes a practice: we tend their memory, continue their work, let them remain alive in our hearts as teachers and reminders of what's possible.