Lalleshwari World Poems

  • 1.
    Why have you sunk deep in the sea
    of the illusory pleasures of the world?
    Why have you pulled down the high-banked road
    which could have led you safe across?
    ...
  • 2.
    I, Lalla, willingly entered through the garden-gate,
    There, O Joy! I found Siva united with Sakti;
    There and then I got absorbed drinking at the Lake of Nectar.
    Immune to harm am I, dead as I am to the world, though still alive.
    ...
  • 3.
    I practiced what I read,
    And learnt what was not taught.
    From its jungle abode
    I brought the lion down
    ...
  • 4.
    I have seen a learned man die of hunger,
    A sere leaf dropp in winter wind;
    I have seen an utter fool beat his cook
    (who could not make a toothsome dish).
    ...
  • 5.
    Intense cold makes water ice.
    Then the hard ice turns to slush
    and back to water, so there are three
    forms of consciousness: the individual,
    ...
  • 6.
    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 ?
    ...
  • 7.
    The joys of palate and fine apparel
    bring man no lasting peace.
    They who give up false hopes and don't
    put trust in the things of the world,
    ...
Total 7 World 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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