Prema as Civilization's Last Witness

Mirabai's prema—divine love—transforms how we grieve civilization's decline. Rather than numbing ourselves or surrendering to apocalyptic despair, prema asks us to witness what we're losing with full-hearted presence. This is not passive acceptance but active devotion: we love the forests being cleared, the languages disappearing, the ways of life eroding, precisely because they matter. Mirabai sang to Krishna even as her life crumbled; we can practice this same radical witnessing of civilization's unraveling. Prema teaches that grief itself is a form of fidelity, a refusal to turn away. In anticipatory grief, this becomes essential: to grieve well is to have loved well, to have paid attention, to have let the world change us.