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Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
14th Century

 

About Lal Ded

Timeline (14th Century)

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English version by
Coleman Barks
To learn the scriptures is easy,

Themes
  Silence
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Ascent of Self: A Reinterpretation of the Mystical Poetry of Lalla-Ded, by B. N. Paramoo
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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.

 

 

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

 

 

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