Ghazal
Akha Bhagat 11
This ghazal, "Akha Bhagat 11", critiques a guru who succumbs to the ego of leadership, becoming a source of suffering rather than guidance. It highlights how such a guru gets entangled in a web of words, contrasting this with the wisdom of a true enlightened individual who welcomes and elevates the soul. The poem emphasizes that true spiritual guidance is free from the affliction of false authority.
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અખા તે ગુરુના મનમાં ખરા
જીવ આવકાર દઇ બેસારે પરા.
O Akha, true are those in the Guru's mind,The soul welcomes and seats them, on a plane refined.
O Akha, those who are truly aligned with the Guru's mind or wisdom, the soul welcomes them and seats them on a higher spiritual plane.
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ગુરુ થઇ બેઠો શેનો સાધ
સ્વામીપણાની વળગી વ્યાધ;
Why have you become a guru, what practice do you claim?The affliction of mastership has clung to your name.
Why have you assumed the role of a guru, and what spiritual practice do you claim to follow? You have been afflicted by the desire for mastership.
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તે પીડાથી દુઃખિયો થયો
રોગ કરાર અનુભવથી ગયો;
He became sorrowful from that pain,The disease, through experience, found its peace.
He became sorrowful due to that pain. The disease, through his experience, eventually found its peace or resolution.
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વાયક જાળમાં ઘુંચવી મરે
અખા જ્ઞાનીનું કહ્યું કે મ કરે.
Entangled in the net of words, one perishes;Akho asks, why does one not do as the wise advise?
Entangled in the net of words, one perishes; Akho asks, why does one not do as the wise advise?
5
જ્ઞાનીને તો સર્વે ફોક
બ્રહ્માદિલગી કલ્પ્યાં લોક;
To the wise, all is but vain,From Brahma's realms, all but conceived in pain.
To a wise person, everything is futile; even the realms imagined by Brahma and other deities are considered vain.
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ત્રણકાંડ કાળની માંડણી
તત્વવેત્તાએ એવી ગણી;
The three-fold arrangement of Time, Such did the philosophers define.
The three-fold arrangement of Time, such did the philosophers define.
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