A closer look
When your divine crush on a blue-skinned deity is so overwhelmingly intense that literal snake poison becomes a fun beverage. Mirabai was a 16th-century Rajput princess who completely ditched her royal duties to dance in the streets, fully believing she was married to Krishna. Her furious earthly in-laws tried to assassinate her multiple times, including sending her a cup of pure venom. According to the Bhakti tradition, her state of 'Viraha' (agonizingly intense longing for the divine) actually rewrote her biology, neutralizing the poison as she drank it while singing love poems.
