Mirabai's practice of inner examination applied to understanding what public figures or tragedies reveal about our own values, attachments, and spiritual blind spots.
Mirabai was relentless in examining her own heart—her attachments, desires, and contradictions. When we face collective grief, her model invites us to ask: What does my grief reveal about what I valued in this person? What attachments am I grieving—the person themselves, or an image or projection? What truths about mortality, injustice, or meaning does this loss expose in me? The examined heart is not indulgent self-reflection but sacred accountability. It asks us to grieve *honestly*, acknowledging both genuine loss and our own entanglement with public narratives. Mirabai refused false piety; she named her desire, her anger, her longing. In collective mourning, this practice means moving beyond performative grief to ask ourselves what this tragedy demands we *see* about ourselves and our world.
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