Prema: Love as the Ground of All Feeling

Prema is divine love or ultimate devotion in bhakti philosophy. Mirabai's grief was not petty sorrow but the evidence of her prema for Krishna. Her anger at his absence, at social restrictions, at the world's inability to recognize love—all of it flowed from the ground of overwhelming prema. This concept teaches that the intensity of your grief or rage often measures the depth of your love or commitment. Rather than pathologizing anger as 'too much' or grief as 'too long,' this framework honors these emotions as proof of your capacity for deep feeling. It redeems the raging person: you are not broken; you love greatly.