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laz ka:siy Si:t nèva:riy,
trinà zalà kariy a:ha:r  |
yi kàmy vvapàdeS kôruy baTa:,
atsi:tan vaTas satsi:tan dyun a:ha:r  ||

It covers your shame and wards off the cold,
it drinks water and it eats food.
Who taught you, oh Brahmin,
to give conscious food to an unconscious stone?

Lalla was not only protesting against animal sacrifice; she was also
making a plea for non-violence (ahimsa).


Here is an analogy for our time:

They cry and they bleed,
they share your divinity.
Who taught you this stupidity:
to sacrifice your kind
to dogma and greed?

The edited and transliterated Kashmiri text has been placed into the
public domain; the English is copyright (C) 2004 by Donald C. Traxler.

--Don
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lalleshvari

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