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 suddenly woke inside myself<br />
like a lotus opening<br />
in waterweeds.<br />
How did I get here?<br />
Where am I going?<br />
Only true initiation helps.<br />
Is breath-awareness<br />
all there is?<br />
* * *<br />
I do not know myself,<br />
nor you, my Lord.<br />
I mistook the body<br />
for my identity.<br />
I didn't know<br />
that you are<br />
me, and I you,<br />
yet still I keep wondering<br />
who you and I are.<br />
* * *<br />
Playfully, you hid from me.<br />
All day I looked.<br />
Then I discovered<br />
I was you,<br />
and the celebration<br />
of That began.<br />
Introduction<br />
<strong>Lalla</strong> lived in Kashmir in the 14th century, when many doctrinal<br />
streams were merging: Shaivism, sufism, Vedantic non-dualism,<br />
and other -isms, but <strong>Lalla</strong> is beyond religious categories, a living<br />
combination that cannot be described in those terms.
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