Jo dikhta hai wo hota nahi hai aur jo hota hai who dikta nahi hai
English translation: Reality is fleeting
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Urdu term or phrase:
Jo dikhta hai wo hota nahi hai aur jo hota hai who dikta nahi hai
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Urdu to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Urdu term or phrase:Jo dikhta hai wo hota nahi hai aur jo hota hai who dikta nahi hai
"Jo dikhta hai wo hota nahi hai aur jo hota hai who dikta nahi hai"
translate into english.
Explanation: Speaking from the philosophical point of view, you have expressions like:
You can't take a bath twice in the same river [because water and time will have run between your first and second bath]. You may not perceive it, but nothing is stagnant.
Everything is and is not, simultaneously.
Everything flows, everything changes.
Everything exists and exists not, simultaneously.
From a literal point of view, you can translate the expression as:
Whatever you see is not the reality, and whatever is the reality, you don't see.
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Also literally:
Whatever appears to the eyes is not the actuality; and whatever is actual is not visible the eyes.
This may also be interpreted, metaphysically, as:
God is the actual thing but He is invisible. Whatver is visible, is profane.
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Reality is fleeting
Explanation: Speaking from the philosophical point of view, you have expressions like:
You can't take a bath twice in the same river [because water and time will have run between your first and second bath]. You may not perceive it, but nothing is stagnant.
Everything is and is not, simultaneously.
Everything flows, everything changes.
Everything exists and exists not, simultaneously.
From a literal point of view, you can translate the expression as:
Whatever you see is not the reality, and whatever is the reality, you don't see.
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2010-11-18 08:48:14 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Also literally:
Whatever appears to the eyes is not the actuality; and whatever is actual is not visible the eyes.
This may also be interpreted, metaphysically, as:
God is the actual thing but He is invisible. Whatver is visible, is profane.
Ramesh Bhatt Nepal Local time: 12:13 Native speaker of: Urdu, English PRO pts in category: 8
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