હેત નકામું હસવું, પીડ પડે ઊડ જાય; સાચી પ્રીત સેવાળની, જે જળ ભેળી સુકાય.

hēta nakāmuṁ hasavuṁ, pīḍa paḍē ūḍa jāya; sācī prīta sēvāḷanī, jē jaḷa bhēḷī sukāya.

Literally: Affection that is just useless laughter flies away when pain strikes; true love is like that of the moss, which dries up along with the water.
What it means: Superficial affection vanishes in times of trouble, whereas true love is so deep that one would rather perish with their beloved than live without them.

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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