બેઠક Bethak

મેં જાણ્યું સગા શ્વાસ, શ્વાસ પણ સગા નહીં;

mēṁ jāṇyuṁ sagā śvāsa, śvāsa paṇa sagā nahīṁ;

Literally
I thought my breaths were my relatives, but even breaths are not relatives;
What it means
One cannot rely on anything, even one's own breath, in this transient world.

Also said as

  • તે જાણી વિશ્વાસ, કળજુગમાં કેના કઈ ?
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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