Saturday, April 07, 2007

Ulat Rang

رنگي کو کھے نارنگی
چلتی کو کھے گاڑی
پاوے تو کھے کھویا
دنیا کا الٹ رنگ دیکھ
کبیرا بھت رویا
۔
Rangi ko kahe Narangi
Chalti ko kahe gaari
Paawe to kahe khoya
Duniya ka ulat rang dekh
Kabira bohut roya

Explanation:

In this verse, Bhagat Kabir beautifully explains about this erroneous world.
Orange has a color but we call it Naraangi (no color)
Car - or mode of transportation per time - moves (chalti) but we call it Gari (means buried)

When we obtain butter after so much hard work from milk (paawe = to obtain), we call it khoya (lost). Khoya is a kind of milk product like butter needs special way to obtain.

After seeing this wrong color of world, Kabir cried a lot.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW :D haha...sub lafz sunnay ko aye par abb samjhi kay samajh nahi aye thay. My favorite is khoya..khoya khudh bhi aik nice lafz hai (very poetic..har hard wala dil ne kuch na kuch khoya hota hai) aur khoya khoya hota bohut yumm! mm...in gajar ka halwa!

Anonymous said...

Per Md. Rafi

khoya khoya chand....

I love this couplet since my nana told me years ago.

Mystic