Lalleshvari citations

Lalleshvari ou Lal Ded ou Lalla était une ascète poétesse mystique et sainte du Cachemire. Attachée au shivaïsme, elle a pris très tôt la voie de la renonciation, le sannyâsa, et a créé des odes au dieu Shiva remplies de dévotion . Wikipedia

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Lalleshvari: Citations en anglais

“It covers your shame, keeps you from shivering.
Grass and water are the food it asks.
Who taught you, priest-man,
to feed this breathing thing to your thing of stone?”

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The Poems of Lal Ded, poem 59, p. 15
Poetry

“Whatever work I've done,
whatever I have though,
was praise with my body
and praise hidden
inside my head.”

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Naked Songs, p. 18
Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry

“Whatever work I did became worship of the Lord;
Whatever word I uttered became a prayer;
Whatever this body of mine experienced became
the sadhana of Saiva Tantra
illumining my path to Parmasiva.”

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Lal Ded Vekhas http://ikashmir.net/lalded/vakhs.html <br class="br">Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry

“I didn't believe in it for a moment
but I gulped down the wine of my own voice.
And then I wrestled with the darkness inside me,
knocked it down, clawed at it, ripped it to shreds.”

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The Poems of Lal Ded, poem 48, p. 10
Poetry