બેઠક Bethak

તનકું જોગી સબ કરે, મનકા કરે ન કોય;

tanakuṁ jōgī saba karē, manakā karē na kōya;

Literally
Everyone makes the body an ascetic, but no one makes the mind one;
What it means
It is easy to adopt the outward appearance of a monk, but extremely difficult to discipline the mind.

Also said as

  • મનકું જોગી જો કરે, સો ગુરૂ બાલક હોય.
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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