![]() ![]() Her poetry is a confluence of Saivism and Sufism. This paper attempts to explore the mysticism in the poetry of Lal Ded, the fourteenth century Kashmiri female poet. Religion provides them the courage to attack the pompous patriarchal and religious practices, as well as the solace and escape from the tyranny of the cryptograph of man dominated society. Similarly, women who could not express their discontent against the parochial codes openly embraced mysticism. History is evident that man has been taking refuge of religion to express his mysticism. Mysticism is a record of man’s worship of god, almighty or the nature. Man has been worshipping god, nature or virtues. The hybridity in cultures, languages and religions in India has produced abundant material in the course of time that has been attracting scholars all over the world. India has a long tradition of saints, poets, devotees, mystics and religious traditions and the changing patterns of devotion from time to time and from sect to sect. ![]()
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