The liminal space where your old self dissolves and new self emerges—a threshold Mirabai inhabited when she abandoned her prescribed role.
Mirabai existed in a dangerous threshold: no longer the dutiful queen, not yet fully accepted as a saint. This in-between space is where identity grief becomes most acute. The veil between identities is that disorienting period when you've released who you were but haven't solidified who you're becoming. You belong nowhere; you're claimed by no role. Mirabai's bhakti poetry speaks from this veil—raw, ecstatic, unmoored. Rather than rushing to replace your lost identity with a new one, this concept asks you to dwell in the veil deliberately. Here, in the uncertainty and groundlessness, you can examine what was true about your former self and what was merely inherited. The veil is not a failure of transition but a necessary crucible where identity is purified through grief and devotion.
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