You live within my body,
and I worship only You.
I do not care
if I die, take birth,
or pass into some other state.
These things are so ordinary now.
[Taken from Lalleshwari: Spiritual Poems by a Great Siddha Yogini, Translated by Swami Muktananda]
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If you’ve melted your desires
to be a recluse, or choosea family, the village job.If you know the pure Lord within you,you’ll be That, wherever.
Countless times we come, and
In movement we should remain,Day after day and, night after night;Whence we come, thenceWe should return:Something or the other,and, something or the other,And, something or what?
The soul, like the moon,
And I have seen the oceancontinuously creating.Since I scoured my mindand my body, I too, Lalla,am new, each moment new.My teacher told me one thing,live in the soul.When that was so,I began to go naked,and dance.[Taken from Naked Song, by Lalla / Translated by Coleman Barks]
O, mind, how intoxicated you are
How are you eluded by untruthfor truth?Listen:Enthralled you have becomeBy a foreign creed,Coming and going, birth and rebirthAre but a cyclic movementOf life and death
Why do you dote upon someone, my Soul,
Why have you taken the false for the true?Why can’t you understand, why can’t you know?It is ignorance that binds you to the false,To the ever-recurring wheel of birth and death,this coming and going.
I will weep and weep for you, O Mind;
Though you cling to them with the anchor of steel,Not even the shadow of the things you love Will go with you when you are dead.Why then have you forgot your own true Self ?