Kabir · doha
बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोय।
burā jo dekhan maiṁ calā, burā na miliyā koy
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“I went looking for the bad, and found none — then I looked within.”
मूल Original
बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोय।
Hindi / Awadhi, in its own script.
उच्चारण How it sounds
burā jo dekhan maiṁ calā, burā na miliyā koy
Read it aloud — IAST transliteration.
अर्थ What it means
I went looking for the bad, and found none — then I looked within.
A thought about self.
स्रोत Where it comes from
Kabir (doha)
The 15th-century weaver-poet whose two-line dohas cut through pretence.
Public domain · Ancient / pre-1960 text
When someone asks, “What does your T-shirt say?”
It's from doha, in Hindi / Awadhi. It means: “I went looking for the bad, and found none — then I looked within.”
That's the whole idea. One line, and a conversation about something that has mattered for a thousand years.
If this stayed with you