Lalla: Dying and giving birth go on

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Dying and giving birth go on

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by Lalla
(14th Century) Timeline

English version by
Coleman Barks

Original Language
Kashmiri

Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)

14th Century

Dying and giving birth go on
inside the one consciousness,
but most people misunderstand

the pure play of creative energy,
how inside that, those
are one event.

-- from Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment, Edited by Daniel Halpern

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Themes

Birth, Rebirth

Womb

Recommended Books

	The Ascent of Self: A Reinterpretation of the Mystical Poetry of Lalla-Ded, by B. N. Paramoo
	Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment, Edited by Daniel Halpern
	I Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded, Translated by Ranjit Hoskote
	Lalla: Naked Song, Translated by Coleman Barks
	Lalleshwari: Spiritual Poems by a Great Siddha Yogini, Translated by Swami Muktananda

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