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Dec 21, 2024

Kabir Dohas

Akath Kahani Prem Ki, Kutch Kahi Na Jaye
Goonge Keri Sarkara, Baithe Muskae

Translation

Inexpressible is the story of Love
It cannot be revealed by words
Like the dumb eating sweet-meat
Only smiles, the sweetness he cannot tell

My Understanding

In this Doha, Kabir refers to the situation of a person in Love, a person who has realized the Truth. This compassionate one does not brag, does not talk for the wise one knows that it would be as futile an effort as the mute smile of a dumb trying to express the sweetness of the sweet-meat.

In our daily life too, we find that silence projects our love expressions better than the hollow words we utter for another. Truly it has been said that Love does not need the crutches of a language to express the inexpressible state of being in Love.

 


Rajender Krishan
Visual Art by Simi Nallaseth

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Comments on this Doha

Comment it's good but not as good that it can help us fully

kirn ghose

05-Feb-2014 04:09 AM

Comment kuch na kaho kya kehna hai ....

vimal kumar

15-Apr-2013 06:48 AM

Comment i like this

divakarsingh

01-Nov-2012 09:37 AM

Comment this doha is the best.


Kabir is really talented.

ashwin

14-Aug-2012 21:09 PM

Comment this one it the best doha...............

tanishqdimke

22-Jul-2011 00:31 AM

Comment You went to a shop and you tried different sweets but there was one variety which made you enjoy the taste, the aroma, the nice smell, you got engrossed , involved,engaged, there are many more words to to be added.

This Doha simply means you are searching love on this earth, in desperation,it depends on your keenness to get that love, that ultimately he or she finds it and then further they don't have any interest in explaining how they are feeling also even if they try to the world may not understand the devineness of that love/ ananda.

Bharatbhushan Nirmal

19-Jun-2011 14:16 PM

Comment i think sweet-meat is some sort of sweet, not meat, like Raj says, it can be a Burfi or something.

@ gore r p

30-May-2011 23:33 PM

Comment Wrong expresion has been given. Kabir Dass ji telling in his doha that Prem "Love" is God. When someone find the God in his body, his condition will be like dumb, who can not discribe about the taste of sweets. When we find the God inside our body, we can not discribe the feeling of God.

Laxmi Narain

23-Dec-2010 07:02 AM

Comment It is not "meat", it is "sweat-meat" like the Indian sweet "Burfi" or a sweet candy.

Raj

01-Oct-2010 09:10 AM

Comment how can meat be sweet??

sweet is generaly related to sugar.

pl look in to

gore r p

01-Oct-2010 03:54 AM




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Index of Dohas in English

  1. Looking at the grinding stone
  2. I searched for the crooked
  3. Tomorrows work do today
  4. Speak such words
  5. Slowly slowly O mind
  6. Give me so much O God
  7. In vain is the eminence
  8. Like sesame contains the oil
  9. Begging is like perishing
  10. Neither illusion nor the mind
  11. Kabira in the market place
  12. Kabir's mind got cleansed
  13. Reading books everyone died
  14. In anguish everyone
  15. Guru is the washerman
  16. Alive one sees
  17. Inexpressible is the story of Love
  18. Worry is the bandit
  19. Don't be so proud and vain
  20. Don't be so proud and vain - 2
  21. By my doing nothing happens
  22. Like the pupil in the eye
  23. When you were born
  24. First the pangs of separation
  25. With the ocean set ablaze
  26. Kabir, save the wealth ...
  27. Hope lives in a dying world
  28. If I say one, It is not
  29. Kabir, This is the abode of love
  30. The Rosary rotating by the hand
  31. Eons have passed whirling rosary
  32. The rosary made of wooden
  33. When I was then Hari was not
  34. Ages have passed shaving
  35. What Harm have the Hair Done
  36. Arise from slumber O Kabir
  37. O Kabir, Your Hut
  38. He alone's the Warrior
  39. Guru the Potter ...
  40. Liberation Comes Not in Seclusion
  41. Both Guru and Gobind (God) are One
  42. I am the Worst of All
  43. That Death the World is Terrified of
  44. Kabir, When One Died; Two Were Dead ...
  45. That death the world (Another Perspective)
  46. Kabir! Let yourself be a pebble
  47. Maya Has Enticed You
  48. World of Black Soot
  49. Discarding Materialism is Insignificant

Index of Dohas in Hindi

  1. Chalti Chakki Dekh Kar
  2. Bura Jo Dekhan Mein Chala
  3. Kaal Kare So Aaj Kar
  4. Aisee Vani Boliye
  5. Dheere Dheere Re Mana
  6. Sayeen Itna Deejiye
  7. Bada Hua To Kya Hua
  8. Jaise Til Mein Tel Hai
  9. Mangan Maran Saman Hai
  10. Maya Mari Na Man Mara
  11. Kabira Khara Bazaar Mein
  12. Kabir Man Nirmal Bhaya
  13. Pothi Padh Padh Jag Mua
  14. Dukh Mein Simran Sab Kare
  15. Gur Dhobi Sikh Kapda
  16. Jeevat Samjhe Jeevat Bujhe
  17. Akath Kahani Prem Ki
  18. Chinta Aisee Dakini
  19. Kabira Garv Na Keejiye
  20. Kabira Garv Na Keejiye - 2
  21. Kabir Kiya Kutch Na Hote Hai
  22. Jyon Naino Mein Putli
  23. Jab Tun Aaya Jagat Mein
  24. Pehle Agan Birha Ki
  25. Aag Jo Lagi Samand Mein
  26. Kabir So Dhan Sanchiye
  27. Aasa Jive Jag Mare
  28. Ek Kahun To Hai Nahin
  29. Kabir Yeh Ghar Prem Ka
  30. Maala To Kar Mein Phire
  31. Maala Pherat Jug Bhaya
  32. Kabir Maala Kaath Kee
  33. Jab Mein Tha Tab Hari Nahin
  34. Moond Munddavat Din Gaye
  35. Keson Kaha Bigadia
  36. Kabir Soota Kya Kare
  37. Kabira Teri Jhompri
  38. Kabir Soyee Soorma
  39. Guru Kumhar Sikh Kumbh Hai
  40. Shune Padiya Na Chootiyo
  41. Guru Govind Toh Ek Hain
  42. Kabir, Sabh Te Hum Bure
  43. Jis Marne Te Jag Darey
  44. Kabir Ek Marante Dui Marey
  45. Jis Marne te (Another Perspective)
  46. Kabir Rorraa Hoe Rahu Baatt Kaa
  47. Naamaa maiaa mohiaa kahai
  48. Kabir, Jag Kajal Ki Kothri
  49. Kabir, Maya Taji Ta Kia Bhaya