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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Shiva is the horse.<br />
Vishnu puts the saddle on.<br />
Brahma adjusts the stirrup.<br />
And there is that in you<br />
that will recognize the rider<br />
those are waiting on: the unobstructed<br />
sound, the nothing without name,<br />
or lineage, or form,<br />
which is continually changing<br />
into the Sound and the Dot<br />
within a human being who is<br />
That meditating inside That,<br />
the Sound and the Dot,<br />
which are one thing, alone,<br />
and the rider who mounts to ride.<br />
Three times I have seen the lake<br />
of the universe overflowing.<br />
Once, I remember seeing<br />
the only existent place<br />
as a whirling without form,<br />
and once, as a bridge over this<br />
that is now Kashmir,<br />
and seven times, I saw the whole<br />
as emptiness.<br />
* * *<br />
Men and women now, even the best,<br />
can barely remember their past lives,<br />
and as for the children, whose lives<br />
are getting harder and harder,<br />
what will they do?
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