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Question
Who was Lallesvari? What are her teachings?
Solution
Lallesvari was a Kashmiri Saint, whose life is full of legends and miraculous deeds. She teaches that the path to God- realisation lies in renouncement of worldly possessions, intense love of the divine and rising above the distginctions of caste and creed.
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