“Learning the scriptures is easy;
but living them, that’s hard.
Far easier to read words on a page
than to seek the living heart of things.
Fumbling through the fog of study,
stumbling, I lost my last words.
And my vision cleared.
Oh the sight that met me then!
When my mind was cleansed of impurities,
like a mirror of its dust and dirt,
I recognized the Self in me:
Wherever I looked and whatever I beheld,
I saw my own Self, I saw God.
O Lalli! This is the true seeing.”
Lalleshwari, also known as Lal Ded, Kashmiri poet-saint (1320 – 1392)
Chorlton Unitarians 