Lalleshwari Soul Poems

  • 1.
    The soul, like the moon,
    is now, and always new again.

    And I have seen the ocean
    ...
  • 2.
    This counsel to the body give, O Soul:
    Wear only such clothes as ward off cold;
    Eat only to satisfy your hunger;
    Devote yourself with all your heart
    ...
  • 3.
    I

    By a way I came, but I went not by the way.
    While I was yet on the midst of the embankment
    ...
  • 4.
    The sling of my candy load has gone loose,
    (and it galls my back):
    My body has bent double under its weight;
    how shall I carry the load ?
    ...
  • 5.
    Why do you dote upon someone, my Soul,
    who is not your true love?
    Why have you taken the false for the true?
    Why can't you understand, why can't you know?
    ...
  • 6.
    Draped in stores of knowledge,
    The points of the verses
    That Lalla sang, became,
    Organic parts of her heart and soul;
    ...
  • 7.
    Ah me! the Five (Bhuta-s) , the ten (Indriya-s) ,
    And the Eleventh, their lord the mind,
    scraped this pot* and went away.
    Had all together pulled on the rope,
    ...
Total 7 Soul Poems by Lalleshwari

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Mind 21 God 12 Body 9 Death 9 Away 8 Knowledge 8 Water 7 Heart 7 Soul 7 World 7

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Saqib ali mir: Lalles was the great personality of kashmir, indian subcontinent.

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