Devotion to Earth as Sacred Other

In Mirabai's bhakti, the beloved—Krishna—is the ultimate sacred reality worthy of total devotion and love. This structure can be reoriented: Earth itself becomes the beloved, the sacred other calling forth your love, your grief, your commitment. Anticipatory grief for civilization is fundamentally grief for the living world—its beings, its systems, its beauty. Devotion to Earth means practicing attention, gratitude, and fierce love for the more-than-human world. It means noticing—truly seeing—water, soil, trees, animals, weather. It means grieving their loss with the same heart-breaking intensity Mirabai poured into her divine longing. This is not sentimental environmentalism but devotional practice: spending time in presence, making offerings, accepting interdependence, acknowledging your complicity and your love simultaneously. Mirabai's bhakti modeled total commitment to what matters beyond the self. Earth-devotion applies this: a spiritual path of reciprocal relationship with the world you inhabit, grounded in love rather than guilt or ideology.