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sadhus), who are described as ‘clothed by the heavens’.

For a woman, however, this practice in Kashmir at that time was an unprecedented act of rebellion.

Just one ‘link’ among many:

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Lal Ded (b. 1355) | Encyclopedia.com
Lal Ded (b. 1355)Kashmiri mystic and poet. Name variations: LalDed; Lallyogeshwari or Lalla Yogeshwari; Lalla the Mystic; Mother Lalla; Lalleshwari. Born in 1355 in Pandrenthan, near Srinagar, to a Ka...
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October 20, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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They arrive and others arrive,
and then they go, and the others go.
Day and night, a constant traffic.

Where do they come from?
Where do they go?

Does it mean anything?
Nothing, nothing, nothing.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
October 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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- #Lalla / #LalDed, from 'Naked Song,' tr. by #ColemanBarks
October 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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The only offering you can make to God is your increasing awareness.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
October 4, 2026 at 7:54 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
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!

- #Lalla / #LalDed, tr. B.N. Paramoo
August 25, 2026 at 10:13 PM
aliyanazki.bsky.social
The Lalle vaakh he’s used:

tchalun chhu vuzmalle ti tratay,
tchalun chhu mandinyan gattekar
tchalun chhu paan panun kadun graetay
hyeti maale santush vaati’ paanay ~

#LalleVaakh #kashmir #kashmiripoetry #poetrysky #lalded #koshur
April 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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There is so much I want to say about this book.

For now I’ll just leave you with how it ends.

#booksky #books #rajashehadeh #occupationdiaries #LalDed #reading
April 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Alone, I crossed the Field of Emptiness,
dropping my reason and my senses.
I stumbled on my own secret there
and flowered, a lotus rising from a marsh.

- #Lalla / #LalDed, tr. @ranjithoskote.bsky.social 🙏
August 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Forgetful one, get up!
It's dawn, time to start searching.

Open your wings and lift.
Give like the blacksmith
even breath to the bellows.

Tend the fire that changes
the shape of metal.

Alchemical work begins at dawn,
as you walk out to meet the Friend.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
July 28, 2026 at 6:51 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Lost in the wilderness between true awareness and the senses,
I suddenly woke inside myself like a lotus opening in waterweeds.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
July 22, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Impart not esoteric truth to fools,
Nor on molasses feed an ass.
Do not sow seed in sandy beds,
Nor waste your oil on cakes of bran.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
June 21, 2026 at 8:26 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Lost in the wilderness between true awareness and the senses,
I suddenly woke inside myself like a lotus opening in waterweeds.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
June 5, 2026 at 6:40 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Unconscious people read the scriptures like parrots saying 'Ram, Ram,' in their cages.
It's all pretend-knowledge.
Read rather, with me, every living moment as prophecy.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
April 10, 2026 at 10:07 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
My body caught fire like an ember,
as I brought the syllable OM,
the one that says “You are That,”
into me. I moved through
the six sky-wheels
that urge human beings to action
and out into the lightedness
where #Lalla lives now.

- #LalDed
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
The purpose of being born is fulfilled
in the state between
"I am"
and
"That."

- #Lalla / #LalDed
January 13, 2026 at 8:10 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Do you think #Shiva worries what people say!
If a few ashes fall on a mirror, use them to polish it.

- #Lalla (aka #LalDed)
December 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
The only offering you can make to God is your increasing awareness.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
October 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
In this state there is no #Shiva,
nor any holy union.

Only a somewhat something moving
dreamlike on a fading road.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
August 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Just for a moment, flowers appear
on the empty, nearly-spring tree.

Just for a second, wind
through the wild thicket thorns.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
August 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Forgetful one, get up!
It's dawn, time to start searching.

Open your wings and lift.
Give like the blacksmith
even breath to the bellows.

Tend the fire that changes
the shape of metal.

Alchemical work begins at dawn,
as you walk out to meet the Friend.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
July 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
djp1974.bsky.social
Lost in the wilderness
between true awareness and the senses,
I suddenly woke inside myself
like a lotus opening in waterweeds.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
July 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
That one is blessed and at peace
who doesn’t hope, to whom
desire makes no more loans.
Nothing coming, nothing owed.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
June 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
The washerman dashed me on the washing stone
And the tailor's scissors made me aware of the way
To attain what is the supreme state."

- #LalDed
June 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
Alone, I crossed the Field of Emptiness,
dropping my reason and my senses,
I stumbled on my own secret there.

- #Lalla / #LalDed
Image of the lines of the poem taken from a baker's smoked mud wall, Kashmir
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
#Siva is omnipresent.
Never differentiate between a Hindu and a Muslim.
If you are wise, know yourself.
That is the recognition of the true Friend.

My guru gave me just one rule:
'Forget the outside, get to the inside.'
I, #Lalla, took this to heart.
From that day, I naked danced.

- #LalDed
June 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM