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Don't flail about like a man wearing a blindfold

Lalla, Lalla poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Shaivite (Shiva) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Lalla
(14th Century) Timeline

English version by
Ranjit Hoskote

Original Language
Kashmiri
Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
14th Century

Don't flail about like a man wearing a blindfold.
Believe me, He's in here.
Come in and see for yourself.
You'll stop hunting for Him all over.

 

 

-- from I Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded, Translated by Ranjit Hoskote

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