Vahshat Kahan Ki Be-khudi Insha Kare Koi — Mirza Ghalib
Meaning
Where is that frenzy that someone could create true selflessness, or reduce human existence to a mere word whose meaning is non-existent like the mythical Anqa?
Explanation
Ghalib is longing for an absolute, transcendent madness—a state of ecstatic oblivion so deep that it completely dissolves the self. He uses the metaphor of the mythical bird 'Anqa', a creature whose name exists in language, yet has no tangible presence in reality. The poet wistfully asks where that true intensity of passion has gone, which could reduce the heavy burden of our existence into a mere phantom word, freeing us entirely from being.
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