Lalleshwari Poems

Fair or foul, satire or sarcasm, all
I deserve:
Blockade of audition, screening eyes,
As the voice of god tickled
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When my mind was cleansed of impurities,
like a mirror of its dust and dirt,
I recognized the Self in me:
When I saw Him dwelling in me,
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The sling of my candy load has gone loose,
(and it galls my back):
My body has bent double under its weight;
how shall I carry the load ?
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A thousand times I asked my guru,
'The name of the One who is known by No-thing',
Tired and exhausted was I, asking time and again;
Out of Nothing emerged Something, bewildering and great!
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O infinite Consciousness,
brimming with elixir,
You live within my body,
and I worship only You.
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It is easy to read and to recite;
It is hard to practice what one reads,
And, reading seek out the Self within.
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I, Lalla, willingly entered through the garden-gate,
There, O Joy! I found Siva united with Sakti;
There and then I got absorbed drinking at the Lake of Nectar.
Immune to harm am I, dead as I am to the world, though still alive.
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There is neither you, nor I;
neither the object of meditation,
nor the process of meditation;
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Have no fear, O restless mind,
The Eternal One takes thought for you.
He knows how to fulfil your wants.
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Why do you dote upon someone, my Soul,
who is not your true love?
Why have you taken the false for the true?
Why can't you understand, why can't you know?
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