નિત નિત નાહાવા જાય, પણ મન ચોખ્ખું મળે નહીં;

nita nita nāhāvā jāya, paṇa mana cōkhkhuṁ maḷē nahīṁ;

Literally: Going to bathe every single day, but the mind does not become clean;
What it means: External rituals of purification are useless if one's heart and intentions remain impure.

Also said as

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · 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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