To Learn The Scriptures Is Easy Poem by Lalleshwari

To Learn The Scriptures Is Easy



To learn the scriptures is easy,
to live them, hard.
The search for the Real
is no simple matter.

Deep in my looking,
the last words vanished.
Joyous and silent,
the waking that met me there.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
[Taken from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield]
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Manonton Dalan 13 January 2016

hmmmmm.... application of what you learne

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Souren Mondal 14 October 2015

'Practice what you preach' as the old saying goes! Loved the way the poem, in two simple, short stanzas, expresses a true devotee's take on holy scriptures and how to find perhaps inner peace through self-realisation.

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Lalleshwari

Lalleshwari

Pandrethan, Srinagar, Kashmir / India
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