The practice of cultivating fierce love and attention as an antidote to the dissociation that anticipatory grief can produce.
Mirabai's radical devotion—her refusal to perform expected roles, her ecstatic love for Krishna—models a form of resistance to the deadening effect of civilizational collapse. Anticipatory grief can numb us into passivity, yet Mirabai teaches that devotion keeps the heart awake and responsive. By attending intensely to what we love, we remain present to both its beauty and its fragility. This is not denial but a conscious choice to meet loss with tenderness rather than armor. For those grieving civilization's trajectory, devotion becomes a practice of staying alive to connection, meaning, and the particular beings and places we cherish, even as systems fail around us.
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