Lalla-Naked-Song
Lalla lived in Kashmir in the 14th century, when many doctrinal streams were merging: Shaivism, sufism, Vedantic non-dualism, and other -isms, but Lalla is beyond religious categories, a living combination that cannot be described in those terms.
Lalla lived in Kashmir in the 14th century, when many doctrinal streams were merging: Shaivism, sufism, Vedantic non-dualism, and other -isms, but Lalla is beyond religious categories, a living combination that cannot be described in those terms.
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And there are others<br />
doing household chores<br />
who are free of any action.<br />
* * *<br />
One in whom the syllable OM<br />
rises steadily upward<br />
from the sex through the navel,<br />
and only OM, forms a bridge to God.<br />
That one has no interest<br />
in different kinds of magic.<br />
That one is a spell.<br />
So you've cut up your hide and stretched it,<br />
pegged it down to dry with definite,<br />
sharp-pointed desires,<br />
but have you planted any fruit trees<br />
for the next generation?<br />
Wisdom offered you is like a ball<br />
thrown at a boundary post,<br />
useless as molasses fed to a tawny bull<br />
to help it give more milk!<br />
* * *<br />
I keep weeping for you, my soul,<br />
good sir, gently trying to let you<br />
see the nature of what you love.<br />
Not even the shadow<br />
of an iron anchor<br />
will last from here.<br />
Remember the truth<br />
that you are.<br />
I, <strong>Lalla</strong>, entered the jasmine garden,<br />
where Shiva and Shakti were making love.
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