Mera Bai or Yogini Meera - Bhakta - Hinduism:

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Yogini Meera, also known as Meera Bai
(1498-1547) was a Hindu mystic poet
of the Bhakti movement. (Bhakti
means divine Love of God). She
referred to the Lord, whom she
saw as her husband, with different
names like Satguru, Prabhu Ji,
Girdhar Nagar, Krishna. She even called
him the husband of her soul. Due to her
mother, her in-laws disapproved
of her public singing and dancing
as she belonged to a Royal Family
of Mewar and was a princess.

But she had too much love for her
god and sacrificed everything, even
her family, for god and attained Moksha
through Bhakti Yoga. She is a celebrated
Bhakti saint, particularly in the
North Indian Hindu tradition.

Meera Bai was born into family of
Merta, Rajasthan, India. She is mentioned
in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely
known and a cherished figure in the Bhakti
movement culture by about 1600 CE.
Most legends about Meera mention
her fearless disregard for social and
family conventions, her devotion to
Lord Krishna, her treating Krishna as
her husband, and she being persecuted
by her in-laws for her religious devotion.

She has been the subject of numerous
folk tales and hagiographic legends,
which are inconsistent or widely different
in details.thousands of devotional poems
in passionate praise of Lord Krishna
are attributed to Meera in the Indian
tradition, but just a few hundred are
believed to be authentic by scholars,
and the earliest written records suggest
that except for two poems, most were
written down only in the 18th century.

Many poems attributed to Meera were
likely composed later by others who
admired Meera. These poems are
commonly known as bhajans, and
are popular across India.

Hindu temples, such as in Chittorgarh
fort, are dedicated to Mira Bai's memory.

One poem:

My Dark One has gone to an alien land.
He has left me behind, he's never returned,
he's never sent me a single word.
So I've stripped off my ornaments,
jewels and adornments, cut my hair
from my head. And put on holy garments,
all on his account, seeking him in
all four directions. Mira: unless she
meets the Dark One, her Lord, she
doesn't even want to live.

— Mira Bai, Translated by
John Stratton Hawley

Authors note: This is like St John of
the Cross - in the Dark Night of the
Soul. 'Dark One' simply means the
ocean of being or tranquility - which
is found to be ones nature - a living
being - us and God at the same time.
Alien land since there is no more time
or space, we are free of worldliness
and its limitations. There is also were
very deep love is experienced. No
word = silence. Cut my hair from my
head - loss of the intellect, tranquility.

Ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera