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Lalleshwari danced without clothes to prove her devotion

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She left her incredibly abusive household and began wandering the countryside utterly unbothered by modesty. She loudly proclaimed that since the divine sees everything anyway, wearing clothes was just a pointless exercise in vanity.

Lalleshwari danced without clothes to prove her devotion
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