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Strange are the ways of the Lord

Sri Andal grew up in South India, in a priest's household, listening to her father's prayers। Her conviction that She was the Chosen One was given early support by the Lord Himself, when He appeared in her father's dream and asked that She, a mere child now in this birth, must first wear the garlands before He did.......Imagine her feelings when her father, angry the day before, now saw her in a new light.... How happy She must have been to know that Her father too was aware of Her special relationship with the Lord....It was a very different story for Meera. She was born to a Rajput ruler, Rana Ratansingh of Kurkhi in Mewad district of Rajasthan. The year was 1547 A.D. These were times of intense fighting between the Mughals and Rajput rulers. She was expected to learn the ways of Rajput princesses. In time, she would be married off to a prince, and was expected to move from behind one curtain (purdah) to another. Only a society which has been subjected to the ruthlessness