Lalleshwari Teaching in a Nutshell.

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Wonderful, I spend the whole afternoon rereading the Ascent of the

Self, and I thought I post this extraction.

 

Lalla-ded teaches the people to rise above the plane of sensory

perceptions to the subtle plane of recogniiton and true knowledge.

That is the place of correct understanding. Once man rises to that

height, narrow-mindedness and stubborn discrimination between man

and man on the basis of accidents of birth, rac, caste and creed are

wiped out.

 

Her teaching has a devastating effect on the religious bigotry of

man whose understanding is warped by misconceived notions of the

Ultimate Truth.

 

Her philosophy is simple. God realization is an act of self-

realization and recognition of the fact that though apparently cast

in different moulds, we are all made of the same stuff. The Essence

of creation is one and the same. The Mighty Being pervades us all.

 

Her teaching boils down to the basic tenent of all religious

teachings - The Universal Spirit is One, and we are but His earthly

tabernacles. We must realise Him whose manifestations we are. The

following vakh sums up her teachings ;

 

shiv chuy thali thali rav zAn

Mav zAn Hyond ta Mussalman

Trukhay chukh ta pananuy pAn parzAn

Ada chay SAhibas satiy zAniyzAn

 

[Lallavakya, shloka 88]

 

Siva, like the sun, shines everywhere

Do not discriminate between a Hindu and a Muslim

If thou art wise, recognise thy self.

That is the way of knowing the Lord.

 

[Page xviii, Introduction [iv] The Ascent of Self]