Lalla (Lal Ded): A thousand times I asked my guru

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A thousand times I asked my guru

Lalla (Lal Ded), Lalla (Lal Ded) poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Shaivite (Shiva) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Lalla (Lal Ded)
(14th Century) Timeline

English version by
B. N. Paramoo

Original Language
Kashmiri

Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)

14th Century

A thousand times I asked my guru,
'The name of the One who is known by No-thing',
Tired and exhausted was I, asking time and again;
Out of Nothing emerged Something, bewildering and great!

-- from The Ascent of Self: A Reinterpretation of the Mystical Poetry of Lalla-Ded, by B. N. Paramoo

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	The Ascent of Self: A Reinterpretation of the Mystical Poetry of Lalla-Ded, by B. N. Paramoo
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	Naked Song, by Lalla / Translated by Coleman Barks
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