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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The ground's surface will extend outward.<br />
The new moon will be swallowed<br />
in eclipse, and the mind in meditation<br />
will be completely absorbed<br />
by the Void inside it.<br />
Let him say<br />
whatever he wants<br />
against me.<br />
Let whoever come<br />
and say whatever.<br />
Or let them worship me,<br />
bringing their souls<br />
here like flowers.<br />
I'm not part of any of that.<br />
So where's the exchange?<br />
* * *<br />
God of the dark blue throat,<br />
who drank the poison to save us,<br />
You have six powers, and so must I!<br />
But I've grown separate from You,<br />
and taken on another six.<br />
They mislead me.<br />
When you see yourself<br />
and someone else<br />
as one being,<br />
when you know the most joyful day<br />
and the most terrible night<br />
as one moment, then<br />
awareness is alone<br />
with its Lord.<br />
* * *<br />
With repeated meditation practice<br />
the expanse of the visible universe
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