For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai

Sometime in the sixteenth century a high born Hindu lady fell in love with a god, Krishna, dropped everything, family, friends, widow's weeds, and went through the land singing about it. The ecstasy is similar to the Sufi effusions, but--at least according to this translation--rather more starkly sexual. This truly is "body & soul" devotion. The singing was apparently literal, and although I suppose Mirabai's own melodies are lost or transformed after all this time, her texts are still sung and recorded.