Ghazal
Akha Bhagat 3
Akha Bhagat's ghazal critiques how academic learning, rather than fostering wisdom, often inflates one's ego, moving from a small amount of pride to immense arrogance, especially when one becomes a guru. This inflated ego results in the complete loss of self-knowledge. The poet uses the metaphor of a one-eyed man ruling among the blind to show how superficial knowledge is revered in an ignorant society.
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દે હાભિમાન હતો પાશેર
તે વિદ્યા ભણીને વધ્યો શેર
The body's ego weighed but a quarter-kilo, By learning knowledge, it grew to a kilo.
Initially, the ego associated with the body weighed only a quarter-kilo; however, after gaining knowledge, it expanded to a full kilo.
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ચર્ચાવાદમાં તોલે થયો
ગુરુ થયો ત્યાં મણમાં ગયો
In discourse, his worth was clearly weighed,But as a guru, by pride he was swayed.
His true worth was assessed during discussions, but upon becoming a guru, he became arrogant or engrossed in his position, losing his original self.
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અખા એમ હલકાંથી ભારે થાય
આત્મજ્ઞાન સમ ૂળું જાય
Akha, thus by trivial things one is burdened,And self-knowledge, root and all, is undone.
Akha says, when one gets entangled in trivial matters, one becomes burdened, and one's self-knowledge is completely lost.
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સો આંધળામાં કાણો રાવ
આંધળાને કાણા પર ભાવ
Among the blind, the one-eyed holds sway,The blind show him favor, come what may.
Among a hundred blind people, a one-eyed person acts as their leader or king. The blind show trust or affection towards the one-eyed.
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સૌનાં નેત્રો ફૂટી ગયા
ગુરુ આચાર જ કાણાં થયા
All eyes have now gone blind, it seems,Even guru's conduct lost its gleams.
Everyone's eyes have gone blind; the guru's conduct itself has become one-eyed.
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શાસ્ત્ર તણી છે એક જ આંખ
અનુભવની ઉઘડી અખા નહી આંખ
Scripture holds but one single eye;The eye of experience, Akha, remains unopened.
Scripture possesses only one eye; Akha, the eye of experience, has not yet opened.
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