Husn-e-be-parva Kharidar-e-mata-e-jalva Hai — Mirza Ghalib
Meaning
Indifferent beauty is itself the purchaser of its own display of splendor, and the mirror is merely the knee of contemplation that invents this manifestation.
Explanation
Ghalib offers a captivating philosophical reflection on beauty and self-awareness here. He suggests that supreme beauty, in all its aloofness, needs no audience; it is entirely self-absorbed, being both the merchant and the admiring buyer of its own splendor. The mirror is delightfully imagined as the contemplative knee of thought itself—a quiet, reflective posture where beauty meditates and invents new dimensions of its own manifestation.
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