Poem

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A POEM BY LALLA

 

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.

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,

I realized that He was the Everything and I was nothing.

 

(From " Mystic songs of Kashmirian tantrism " , presented and translated

from English by Daniel Odier)