“Awake to the Name

Awake to the Name

To be born in a human body is rare,
Don’t throw away the reward of your past good
deeds.
Life passes in an instant – the leaf doesn’t go back to
the branch.
The ocean of rebirth sweeps up all beings hard,
Pulls them into its cold-running, fierce, implacable
currents.
Giridhara, your name is the raft, the one safe-passage 
over.
Take me quickly.
All the awake ones travel with Mira, singing the
name.
She says with them: Get up, stop sleeping – the days
of a life are short.

_         Saint Meerabai