APPROPRIATION OF LAL DED'S PHILOSOPHY AND PERSONALITY

APPROPRIATING LAL DED'S  PHILOSOPHY AND PERSONALITY 

                                                                     

                                                

Those who don't know, Pratyabhijna , Abhasvada,  Spanda , Anavopaya, Sakthopaya , Sambhavopaya,  Prakasha , Vimarsha , Ardhanarishwara, Shakta-  Tantra, Krama, Kaula, Shunyavada, Argha, Panchbhoota, Ataman, Brahman, Yoga-Kriya, Chit'a, Brahmanda, Chaitanya, Advaita ,Shiva-Tattva, Shiva-Sutras and personalities like Adi Sankara,  Utapaldeva , Abhinavagupta and  Kshemraja  are simply parroting ideas, speaking jargon to impress , focusing on appearances rather than substance and connecting ' Irrelevant or Spurious  Issues'  to appropriate  Lal Ded's core message and personality   . No genuine discourse on Lal Ded is possible unless the speaker or speakers have knowledge of these fundamental issues and personalities. Quite often, we find ignorance speaking to ignorance for appropriation of Lal Ded and her message towards a desired objective.  This act of appropriation makes many persons invent Vaaks and link them with Lalleshwari.

It is equally important to study books like  "Mahanayprakasha ( written in the 13th century by Kashmiri and Sanskrit poet Shiti kantha ) " and "Chhuma Sampradaya/ Chhuma Sanketa Prakasa( written in Kashmir around the 12th century )" to know the Kashmiri dialect, syntax and words used in the  14th century  Kashmiri language and before . 

( Avtar Mota)

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