The Word of Lall the Prophetess Being the Sayings of Lal Ded or Lal Diddi of Kashmir (Granny Lal) Known Also As Laleshwari Lalla Yogishwari & Lalishri Between 1300 & 1400 A.D.

Further early in the development the Ritual of the public sacrifices and the form of the hymns show the birth and growth of the idea of a supreme divinity in the elevation of one or other of the Nature Gods at a time to that position leading naturally to the conception of a Supreme God endowed with the highest cosrnical and divine functions above and behind all the gods superior and inferior. [...] The subsequent development of the idea that the attribute of the Supreme was righteouness is seen in the character ascribed to the Zoroastrian Ahuramazda of the Iranians of Persia and to the Varuna of the Vedic Aryans of India. [...] Alongside this exaltation of the priest there hardened the principle of the holy man the hermit the ascetic idler who did nothing and hurt nothing and by sheer austerity of a life of meditation as a substitute for sacrifice aimed at the power of compelling the gods to admit him to the higher the heavenly life and the consequent powers over the lives of men. [...] The idea of a supreme Divinity over the ordinary gods became crystallised and out of the ruck of the ancient gods two came into chief prominence in the popular philosophy as the representatives of the Supreme —Shiva of the great snow mountains the Himalayas and Vishnu of the Sun and the Sacrifice; reprsentatives in fact of the two most prominent external factors controlling human life —the C [...] Secondly the Mandbhdrata which originally related the story of the Great War of the Bharata tribe of Northern India in the ancient heroic way but was made to serve as the encyclopedia of all knowledge—religious philosophical political and legal—by the priests of the Vaishnavas one of the two great divisions of the later though still early Hindus.