The soul, like the moon,
is now, and always new again.

And I have seen the ocean
continuously creating.

Since I scoured my mind
and my body, I too, Lalla,
am new, each moment new.

My teacher told me one thing,
live in the soul.

When that was so,
I began to go naked,
and dance.

[Taken from Naked Song, by Lalla / Translated by Coleman Barks]

Lalleshwari

Lalleshwari (AD 1320 – 1392)), also known as Lalla, Lal Ded
or "Lal Arifa".She was a mystic of the Kashmiri Shaivite sect, and at the
same time, a Sufi saint. She is a creator of the mystic poetry called vatsun or
Vakhs, literally 'speech'. Known as Lal Vakhs, her verses are the earliest
compositions in the Kashmiri literature.