' Desire for Existence '...
If you want a kingdom and get it,,
you'll have no peace...
If you give it away,,
still you won't be content...
Only a soul free of desire,
can taste eternity...
Be living,, yet dead!..
Then knowing,, comes
to live in you.
............. Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992
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