Ishq-o-may-khwari Nibhe Hai Koi Darveshi Ke Beech — Mir Taqi Mir
Meaning
How can one sustain the intoxication of love and wine among the dervishes? Wealth is necessary to cover such unattainable expenditures.
Explanation
This profound couplet by Mir Taqi Mir explores the paradoxical cost of intense spiritual devotion and passionate love. The 'dervish' represents the lover who lives purely for the intoxication of love (ishq-o-may-khwari). The poet suggests that even this transcendent, selfless state—maintaining pure passion—requires a kind of 'expenditure' (kharch). And what is needed for such an unattainable, sublime sacrifice? Only wealth, or resources! It is a masterful commentary on how the world often measures even the deepest spiritual experiences in material terms.
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