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Mata Lalded The Greatest Saint of Kashmir the greatest Shavitee & Poetess(the Epi Centre from were all the saints have evolved)

Brief Biography

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MATA LAL DED, THE SUPREME SOUL OF SELFREALIZATION AND ALSO THE GREAT POETESS OF KASHMIR.IT WILL BE UNJUST TO DISCUSS THE SPRITIUAL AND LITERARY WORLD OF KASHMIR WITHOUT HER. LALDED WAS A YUG PURSHA, WHICH HAD THE START AND THE END. HER POETRY/VAKHS REFLECTED HER INNER KNOWLEDGE OF SELF(ATMAN)AND INTELLIGENCE. SHE WAS THE ONE WHO TRANSLATED OR ESSAYED THE VEDANTA AND SHAVISM IN KASHMIRI SO THAT EVERY COMMON MAN COULD DRINK THE NECTAR FROM THE VESSEL OF HER DIVINITY.

LALDED'S REAL NAME WAS PADMAVATI,GIVEN TO HER BY HER-IN-LAW'S. IT IS SAID THAT HER REAL NAME HAD BEEN (LALITA).IN SHORT FOR HER NICK NAME(LAL)WHICH MADE HER FAMOUS COULD BE LALDED.LALDED WAS BORN IN "SINGHPUR" A VILLAGE NEAR SRINAGAR AND LATER ON GOT MARRIED IN (PAMPORE)INTIALLY KNOWN AS "PADMANPUR" AS PER THE FOLKLORE GOES ,THEY SAY THAT SHE LEFT FOR HEAVENLY ABODE AT "BIJBEHRA"(HISORIC VIJAVAR) IN 1377.

IN "RISHINAMA" A BOOK BY "SH. SAHAJNANDA"(NUND RISHI).THE ANNALS OF HER BIRTH WAS ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK.IT SEEMS THAT SHE WAS BORN AROUND 1300 OR 1320. SOME PEOPLE SAY ,THAT IT WAS AROUND 1335 WHICH DOES NOT MATCH WITH THE ACHIEVEMENTS SHE ACCLAIMED IN HER AGE.

THERE ARE MANY FOLKLORES AND STORIES RELATED TO HER WHICH HAS NO BEARANCE WITH THE FACTS BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ENOUGH WRITTEN RECORD OF HER LIFE.SHE WAS A GREAT SAINT AND POET BUT ONE CANNOT CONFINE HER TO THIS.IN FACT SHE WAS A GREAT SOUL,A THINKER,A YOGI,SADHAK AND A SUPREME SELF REALIZED SOUL,A GREAT SHAVIATE WHO ACHIEVED THE FINAL GLORY OF YOG.

SH.SH.SWAMI PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA, A GREAT YOGI AND SAINT DESCRIBES HER IN HIS BOOK "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI" AS "SUPREME MISTRESS OF YOGA". EVEN SH.NUND RISHIJI MAHARAJ HAS DEDICATED FEW LINES IN HER RESPECT AS FOLLOWS: "0,THE DAUGHTER OF PADMAPUR WHO DRUNK THE NECTOR THROUGH HER THROAT WHO SAW LORD SHIVA IN HER OWNSELF O,LORD GIVE ME THE BOON LIKE HER'S" DESCRIBES LALDED'S GREATNESS,WHICH HE RECOGNISED BEFORE.

IN TRUE SENSE THE HISTORY OF KASHMIR IS INCOMPLETE IF WE NEGLECT THIS EPIC AGE OF MATA LALDED AND HER CONTRIBUTION IN SPRITUAL EXCELLENCE AND POETICAL SOCIETY.HER DEVOTION TOWARDS ATMAN EXCELLED EVERY EXCELLENCE.SHE WAS NOT JUST AN ORDINARY POETESS YEARING FOR WORDLY LOVE AND MATERIALISTIC THINGS.HER SPRITUAL AND MYSTICAL POEMS OR VAKHS (CONSISTS OF FOUR LINES) ARE ABOVE MUNDANE THINGS.

IT'S DUE TO HER THAT NOW EVERY KASHMIRI UNDERSTANDS THE DIFFICULT ASPECTS OF KASHMIRI SHAVISM WHICH HAS NOW BECOME PART AND DAILY ACTIVITY IN THEIR LIVES WHICH THEY TAKE AS MOOL MANTRA AND CHANT THEM IN MORNING AND EVENING AS AN OFFERING TO LORD.ONE CAN UNDERSTAND THE MAGNETISIM OF HER PERSONALITY THAT EVEN AFTER 600 YEARS PEOPLE STILL FEEL THE ATTRACTION TOWARDS HER WRITING AND GET INSPIRED TO WORK HARD FOR ATTAINING SPRITUAL ELEVATION.

SH. PT.BHASKAR RAZDAN TRANSLATED 60 OF HER VAKHS INTO SANSKRIT IN 1800 AND THUS BECAME THE FIRST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ON HER WORK. ENGLISH VERSION WAS DONE BY SIR GEORGE GRYSON AND AFTER HIM SIR RICHARD TEMPLE DID THIS JOB.PROF. PT JIA LAL KOUL, HAS ALSO DONE THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF HER WORK AND SOME OF ITS TASK WAS DONE BY PT.JANKI NATH BHAN AND PROF.PT. B.N.PARIMOO.

THE HINDI TRANSLATION OF HER WORK WAS DONE BY PT.SHAMBU NATH HALEEM,DR.SHASHI TOSH KHANI AND DR. SHIBAN KISHAN RAINA.

URDU TRANSLATION WAS DONE BY PROF.PT.NAND LAL KOUL (TALIB). PADAMSHRI PT.SH.MOTI LAL SAKI,HAVE ALSO GIVEN HIS VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION IN UNDERSTANDING LIFE AND TIMES OF MATA LALDED.PERSIAN TRANSLATION WAS DONE IN "RISHINAMA"BY NUNDRISHI.

THUS, THE LALDED,IS THE ONLY SPRITUAL SAINT AND POETESS WHERE SCHOLARS DEVOTED MOST OF THEIR TIME TO UNDERSTAND AND FEEL HER PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH.

MAY THE BLESSINGS OF MATA LALESHAWARI BE ON ALL OF US .MAY THIS COMMUNITY PROSPER AND FLOURISH.
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