A Gujarati Bhajan

(Translated by Jayantilal Acharya)

Are there those who could express it,
For it surpasses my feeble expression!
Those who realise have no speech for expression
And speech alone cannot make us realise.
The ways of the dumb, does the dumb one alone know;
For him it is simply to understand and to smile.
The ways of the brave does the brave one alone know;
And the coward has not even an inkling.
Vain are all utterances here,
For the real One resides within.
Pearl-divers alone can bring the pearls,
And those that keep afloat are all mere swimmers.
The tongue alone does know the real taste of ghee;
How could one proclaim whether it be sweet or sour?
Says Ravirama¹ through the greatness of Bhana; ²

Incomprehensible and unfathomable are those realisations.
The doll of salt has merged unto water,
How could it emerge without?