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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What is this lake that is continually<br />
oozing back into the earth?<br />
What can a human being offer to God?<br />
What do we most deeply want?<br />
The answers:<br />
The mind is what sleeps.<br />
What recognizes itself<br />
as God is awake.<br />
This always-disappearing lake<br />
is made of our appetites,<br />
these movings-about,<br />
this talking and listening.<br />
The only offering you can make to God<br />
is your increasing awareness.<br />
And the last desire is<br />
to be God in human form.<br />
The soul, like the moon,<br />
is new, and always new again.<br />
And I have seen the ocean<br />
continuously creating.<br />
Since I scoured my mind<br />
and my body, I too, <strong>Lalla</strong>,<br />
am new, each moment new.<br />
My teacher told me one thing,<br />
Live in the soul.<br />
When that was so,<br />
I began to go naked,<br />
and dance.<br />
* * *<br />
Meditate within eternity.<br />
Don't stay in the mind.
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