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Lalla - Three times I have seen the lake
Identifier
007206
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
From Naked Song: Poems of Lalla
Three times I have seen the lake
of the universe overflowing
Once, I remember seeing
the only existent place
as a whirling without form
and once, as a bridge over this
that is now Kashmir
and seven times, I saw the whole
as emptiness
Men and women now, even the best
can barely remember their past lives
and as for the children, whose lives
are getting harder and harder
what will they do?
A time is coming so deformed
and unnatural that pears and apples
will ripen with the apricots