The existence of the ocean is comprised of the manifestation of various forms, for what independent reality is there in a drop, a wave, or a bubble?

Ghalib uses the timeless imagery of the sea to untangle a deep spiritual mystery: the illusion of our individuality. He points out that fleeting bubbles, waves, and tiny drops have no independent reality of their own—they are simply the ocean playing in different shapes. In the very same way, all of creation and our individual identities are just manifestations of one single, divine truth; strip away the forms, and only the boundless whole remains.