Lalla or Lal Ded was born in Kashmir in the 14th century. She was
a follower of Shiva and believed in the oneness of God and the phenomenal
world. She wandered the country in monetary poverty, dancing
and singing about her intense mystical experience.

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That one is blessed and at peace, Who
doesn't hope, to whom desire makes no more
loans. Nothing coming, nothing owed.

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The world is my disease, and You are the
cure, You, You, You, You, You.

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This new knowledge of how likenesses unite. Good friend
everything is You. I see only God. Now the delightful
forms and motions are transparent. I look through them
and see myself as the Absolute. And here's the
answer to the riddle of the dream: You leave
so we two can do the One Dance.

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Now at last, as clothes, I find You and
freedom. This living is so difficult, Before One takes your hand.

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I wearied myself searching for the Friend with efforts
beyond my strength. I came to the door and
saw how powerfully the locks were bolted. And the
longing in me became that strong, And then I
saw I was gazing from within the presence. With that
waiting, and in giving up all trying, Only
then did Lalla flow out, from where I knelt.

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The last desire is to be God in human form.

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Wear just enough clothes to keep warm. Eat only
enough to stop the hunger-pang. As for your
mind let it work to recognize who you are.
And the Absolute, and that this body will become
food for the forest crows.

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Enlighten your desires, Meditate on who you are,
Quit imagining. What you want is profoundly expensive,
and difficult to find, yet close by. Don’t search
for it, It is nothing, and a nothing within nothing.

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Your pride in yourself and your wanting, These
steal your energy along the road. If you can
kill these robbers and become the servant of everyone,
You’ll meet the Lord in meditation, And see what
you used to protect as just a pile of ashes.

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Covered with mud, I spent the entire day looking for mud,
Now I see what’s all over me, and give in to loving it!

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If you want a kingdom and get it,
you’ll have no peace. If you give it away, still you
won’t be content. Only a soul free of desire can taste eternity.
Be living, yet dead! Then knowing comes to live in you.

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Let them through their curses. If inside, I am
connected to what’s true, My soul stays quiet and
clear. Do you think Shiva worries what people say! If a few ashes
fall on a mirror, use them to polish it.

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There are those sleeping who are awake, And others
awake who are sound asleep. Some of those bathing
in sacred pools will never get clean. And there
are others doing household chores who are
free of any action.

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They arrive and others arrive, And then they go,
and others go. Day and night a constant traffic.
Where do they come from? Where do they go?
Does it mean any thing? Nothing, Nothing, Nothing.

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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.

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On the way to God the difficulties feel like
being ground by a millstone, Like night coming at noon,
like lightning through the clouds. But don’t worry!
What must come comes, Face everything thing with love,
as your mind dissolves in God.

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When the mirror of my consciousness became clear,
I saw that my family and others I love are the same as me.
The “you” and “I” thought does not occur.
The entire world is God.

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Life is given. Nothing is earned. So learn to serve others,
not your own desire greed and ego. They steal
your energies. Whereas devotion builds your strength and protects
the intelligent flame that leads to the truth within.

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Meditate and grow humble. Watch anger and wanting turn to ashes.
Study the ground Lalla, as a sign of attainment.

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When you see yourself and someone else as one being,
When you know the most joyful day
and the most terrible night as one moment,
then awareness is alone with it’s Lord.

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