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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Then everything you've done before<br />
will be brought as a sacrifice<br />
to the mother goddess.<br />
And each day, as you eat the herbs,<br />
the garden grows more bare and empty.<br />
Beautifully full of juice they come from the mother,<br />
causing many birth-pains.<br />
Again and again, they wait at her door to enter.<br />
Shiva is not often among them!<br />
Meditate on that.<br />
The pedestal rock can also serve as pavement,<br />
or as a handsome millstone turning perfectly.<br />
Each is just a hardened piece of the ground.<br />
Shiva is so rarely found.<br />
Sunlight shines everywhere equally.<br />
Water flows into every house.<br />
It's also true that Shiva<br />
can scarcely be located.<br />
The woman who nurses her child with milk<br />
acts with a different love as your wife,<br />
and talking secretly to other men,<br />
she may be dangerous to you, the same woman.<br />
Meditate on how seldom<br />
Shiva appears.<br />
If I could control the channels of my breath,<br />
if I could perform precise surgery on myself,<br />
I could create the substance that awareness is.<br />
There's nothing more valuable than that!<br />
God does not often come as a person.<br />
Four questions:<br />
Who is awake and who asleep?
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