A Yogini Who Made Unity Ordinary
A Yogini Who Made Unity Ordinary A spiritual reflection on Lalleshwari Unity is often treated as a destination—rare, elevated, difficult to reach. It is spoken of in grand declarations and remembered on special days. Lalleshwari , revered with affection as Lal Ded and Lal Arifa , did something far more radical: she made unity ordinary . So ordinary that it stopped needing explanation. She did not announce oneness. She lived in a way where separation simply failed to arise. Most spiritual traditions attempt to resolve division by teaching harmony as an ideal. Lalleshwari approached from another angle. She noticed that division survives on attention. It feeds on repetition, on stories told again and again about difference. She starved division not by opposing it, but by refusing to give it a stage in her daily life. Her yogic insight was deceptively simple: what you do not dramatise, dissolves . She did not wake up to unify religions or reconcile communities. She woke up pr...
