For A Moment I Suppressed The Bellows Of Respiration Poem by Lalleshwari

For A Moment I Suppressed The Bellows Of Respiration



For a moment I suppressed the bellows of respiration,
Lo and behold! The Lamp lit up brightly and I realized my Self!
The light within me sparkled out;
In the encompassing darkness, I seized at It and gripped It tightly.

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[Taken from The Ascent of Self: A Reinterpretation of the Mystical Poetry of Lalla-Ded, by B. N. Paramoo]
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Lalleshwari

Lalleshwari

Pandrethan, Srinagar, Kashmir / India
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