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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A time is coming so deformed<br />
and unnatural that pears and apples<br />
will ripen with the apricots,<br />
and a daughter and a mother<br />
will leave the house every day<br />
hand in hand to find new strangers<br />
to lie down with.<br />
For a moment I saw a beautiful moving river.<br />
Then a vast water with no means of crossing it.<br />
For a moment, I saw a bush full of opening buds.<br />
Then no roses, no thorns, nothing.<br />
For a moment I saw a busy cooking fire.<br />
Then no hearth, no smoke, no flame.<br />
I saw the great mother of kings, Kunti.<br />
Then, the next moment, sitting here, is<br />
the helpless old aunt of the potter's wife.<br />
* * *<br />
Whatever I do, the responsibility is mine,<br />
but like one who plants an orchard,<br />
what comes of what I do, the fruit,<br />
will be for others.<br />
I offer the actions of this life<br />
to the God within,<br />
and wherever I go, the way is blessed.<br />
Some people abandon their homes.<br />
Others abandon hermitages.<br />
All this renunciation does nothing,<br />
if you're not deeply conscious.<br />
Day and night, be aware<br />
with each breath,<br />
and live there.<br />
My teacher, you are God to me!<br />
Tell me the inner meaning
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