The Dissolution of Walls

Mirabai famously dissolved the boundaries between sacred and profane, divine and human, self and beloved. She danced in the streets in violation of caste and gender norms. Her dissolution was not nihilism but liberation—the breaking of false walls that keep us small and separate. Anticipatory grief requires a similar dissolution. We must dissolve the wall between "my future" and "civilization's future," between "personal loss" and "collective loss." We must dissolve the wall between the griever and the grieved-for. Mirabai teaches that these dissolutions are not losses but expansions. As we practice dissolving our rigid identities and attachments, we become more resilient, more permeable, more able to hold complexity. The dissolution of walls is the spiritual work that anticipatory grief requires: moving from "I will survive" to "We are already interconnected in dying and transformation."