“The Great Dancer is my husband," Mira says, "rain washes off all the other colors.””

—  Meera Bai

Mīrābā, in Christian Mysticism East and West: What the Masters Teach Us http://books.google.co.in/books?id=u2EBULLB-uQC&pg=PA121, p. 121

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