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Vision Versified
Kashmir Observer
|OCTOBER 18, 2025 ISSUE
Without commenting on the travel of her Vakhs from oral tradition to popularly acceptable documented compilations available today, Lal Ded (born in1320 or 1335 AD), is the saint - poetess widely regarded as the greatest icon of Kashmiriyet; saviour of the Kashmiri language - who warded off the potential threat of Sanskrit; and the true mystic transcending compartmentalization; remembered by Baba Nasr as "manind humsheera Mansoor Halaj".
Although semantics and legends have got mixed up and scores of vakhs attributed to Lal Ded have to be winnowed, credit goes to Sir George Greirson - who got 109 Vakhs gathered from Mukandram Shastri in 1914AD. Thanks to Richard Temple for his work on mystic lines and to dozens of local scholars for their contribution towards our great legacy and literature.
Unflinching faith in ideology and poetic mastery complement one another in the poetry of the revered mother in such a visionary manner that the charter of interfaith harmony and cosmic vision seems relevant even today.
Shiv chhoye thalle thalle roozaan
Mou zaan Heund tai Musalmaan
Trook hai chhookh te paan parzenav
Soyye chhay Sahibas zaeni zaan.
Shivathe divine energy, resides everywhere
Discriminate not between a Hindu and a Muslim
Realize the true self, if you are wise
That alone is true acquaintance with the Lord.
Rau matte thalle thalle taepetann
Taepetann votim daish
Varrun matte looke garri ae-tsy-tam
Shiv chhoye kruoth te ts-ain wopdaish
Doesn't the sun shine alike, on all abodes?
Does it only bless the highlands?
Doesn't the raingod visit all roofs; high and low?
Grasp the truth, Shiva isn't easy to realize.
(Vision VersifiedII)
This story is from the OCTOBER 18, 2025 ISSUE edition of Kashmir Observer.
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