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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I dissolved into them,<br />
and what is this<br />
to me, now?<br />
I seem to be here,<br />
but really I'm walking<br />
in the jasmine garden.<br />
* * *<br />
Fearful, always-moving mind,<br />
the One who has no beginning<br />
is thinking of how hunger<br />
may fall away from you.<br />
No ritual,<br />
no religion,<br />
is needed.<br />
Just cry out one<br />
unobstructed cry.<br />
The royal fan, sunshade, and chariot,<br />
the throne itself, the happy feasting,<br />
the theatre nights, your soft, down bed,<br />
which of these can help your fear of death?<br />
You've demolished the highbanked marsh road.<br />
How is it now out in the swamp?<br />
Death will come at one specific moment.<br />
How does that make you feel?<br />
There are two results and three causes.<br />
Practice the breath. Rise<br />
through the disc of the sun.<br />
Your death panic will fade.<br />
Let your body wear your knowing.<br />
Let your heart sing songs.<br />
<strong>Lalla</strong> has become a syllable<br />
of soul-light. There is no death.<br />
Enlightenment absorbs this universe of qualities.<br />
When that merging occurs, there is nothing<br />
but God. This is the only doctrine.
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