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Her bhajan-s (songs) profoundly represent the transforming of consciousness working through conceptual metaphors which fall in the realm of religious poetry wherein target domains are generally abstract. Since, the working of the mind is more powerful than anything else, consciousness has become the central issue in modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Can we try to gauge abstract ideas and consciousness? What do we need to make such ideas explicit? What happens when the line between the abstract and the real becomes blur or transparent, especially with respect to spiritual experience? It is here that metaphors step in providing us glimpses into representational relation between mental processes, state of mind and the material world. Therefore, this present paper attempts to study conceptual metaphors which are replete in Mira Bai’s poetry conforming to her spiritual journey. The paper is divided into three sections viz. Mira Bai, Understanding Conceptual Metaphor, A Study of Mira Bai ’s Selected Poetry.  \nKeywords: Mira, Metaphor, Religious poetry, Mapping  \n1. Introduction  \nThe Indian Classical Tradition describes the four main objectives of human pursuit called purūṣārtha i.e. Dharma (duty with compassion and righteousness), Artha (wealth and prosperity), Kāma (satisfying material desires), and Mokṣa (liberation from material pursuits/salvation) . Bhāmaha, an Indian logician and poetician from Kashmir, in his famous treatise Kāvyālaṃkāra, does echo these aforesaid aims of writing good poetry. While the ultimate aim of life is mokṣa (salvation), it cannot be attained without self-realisation (Chapter 1, kārikā-II) . Out of the three basic paths provided for attaining salvation – karmayoga (action), jñānayoga (knowledge) and bhaktiyoga (devotion), the path of devotion is most plausible because it helps to get rid of māyā (worldly illusion) more fruitfully. Even an ordinary, illiterate person can follow this path of devotion easily. Mira Bai, the great saint-poet born in 1498 A.D. of North India carved herself a niche by traversing such a path singing bhajan-s (songs) which became popular among common masses, renouncing her family honour and comfort. She is known to have crossed boundaries of caste, creed and colour showing great courage to become a bhakta (devotee) with her dauntless devotion, surrendering to Lord Krishna. Her radiance of spirit, selfconfidence, evolved consciousness and concentrated effort to achieve the divine are certainly extraordinary. This paper attempts to investigate conceptual metaphors which are replete in her religious verses conforming to her spiritual journey.  \n1.1 Mira’s Life  \nThe journey of Mira’s life starts from 1498 A.D. (Vikram Samvat 1555) in a village named Kudaki, near Medata, a small region of Marwad, Rajasthan in a Rajput family. Mira was the daughter of Ratan Singh Rathod and the granddaughter of Dudaji of Medata. Her mother died when she was about five to seven years old. It is said that Mira Bai could not experience the affection of her parents for long as her ","cbCaifocKfWbCciS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifocKfWbCciS","pdf",261784,"English","# Abstract\n# 1. 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