Aisa Mauta Hai Zinda-e-jaaved — Mir Taqi Mir
Meaning
The couplet suggests that even in eternal life, one feels like a lifeless body when the beloved's path finally arrives.
Explanation
This couplet presents a profound paradox of existence. Mir Taqi Mir suggests that 'everlasting life' (Zinda-e-Javed) is actually a state of being 'dead' (Mauta). This realization, this paradoxical state, only occurs when the beloved's steps (Rafta-e-Yaar) arrive. It speaks to the overwhelming power of love, where the intensity of the beloved's presence is so consuming that it makes the lover feel both eternally alive and utterly lifeless simultaneously.
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