Sant Meerabai

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Born in the Rathod Vansh of the Rajput royalty, Meerabai was married away into the Sisodia royal clan of the glorious mewar rulers. Legend has it that when she was a child she saw a marriage procession, and asked her mother what it was. her mother replied that this is the ceremony where a man takes a woman as his wife, and through religious and social consent, are declared married to each other, and that the man is known as the husband and the woman as the wife. Meera asked her mother who will she be married to, once she grows up, and who her husband shall be? Her mother jokingly replied, that she will marry Lord Krishna when she grows up!!! This stayed on in the little girl's mind and from that moment thereon she dedicated her life to Lord Krishna. She faced a lot of persecution from her in-laws, but yet went on to become one of the greatest poet-saints the world has ever known.