Kashmir cultural history is adorned well by numerous saints and godmen who have contributed a lot in the preservation of our ancient cutural values despite severe odds. These godmen were not essentially scholars of religious scripures but possessed high spiritual capacities and showed the people of their time life's worthwhile path without discrimination of faith. One such towering personality, Lalleshuri is already discussed in some of my posts whose life and sayings have shown the path of purity and enlightenment to people for hundreds of years. Strangely enough these godmen belonged to different religions by their name but served humanity as a whole and taught the greatest lessons of compatibility and patience.
The successor of Lalleshuri in the line, a Muslim saint respected equally by Hindus was Nunda Reshi or Sheikh Noor-ud-Din. Besides being a rishi of high order he was also the composer of typical verse couplets like Vaakhs of Lalleshuri called Shrukh. The content of his verse was almost on the same line as of Lalleshuri though his influence as a saint and poet didn't reach her heights..... (to be continued)
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