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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<strong>Lalla</strong>, you've wandered so many places<br />
trying to find your husband!<br />
Now at last, inside the walls<br />
of this body-house, in the heart-shrine,<br />
you discover where he lives.<br />
I made pilgrimages, looking for God.<br />
Then I gave up, turned around,<br />
there God was inside me!<br />
Oh <strong>Lalla</strong>, why do you keep on<br />
wandering, and begging?<br />
Make just a little effort. Act!<br />
And God will appear in the form<br />
of a love that fills your heart.<br />
* * *<br />
I spent my days idly as a vine<br />
growing slowly in some holy place.<br />
Then compassion came,<br />
and I saw the Absolute.<br />
All the names are true,<br />
but I kept repeating that<br />
of my teacher, and OM.<br />
And sometimes I sang Om<br />
Namah Shivaya, the greeting<br />
that gives peace to the world<br />
as well as to the spirit.<br />
As my love and my faith,<br />
and my interest in the inner<br />
grew, the darkness diminished,<br />
within and without, and <strong>Lalla</strong><br />
lost herself in that light.<br />
* * *<br />
When you eat too much,<br />
you forget your truth,
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