Kabir · doha
जाति न पूछो साधु की, पूछ लीजिए ज्ञान।
jāti na pūcho sādhu kī, pūch lījie gyān
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“Don't ask a sage's caste; ask what they know.”
मूल Original
जाति न पूछो साधु की, पूछ लीजिए ज्ञान।
Hindi / Awadhi, in its own script.
उच्चारण How it sounds
jāti na pūcho sādhu kī, pūch lījie gyān
Read it aloud — IAST transliteration.
अर्थ What it means
Don't ask a sage's caste; ask what they know.
A thought about equality.
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: “Don't ask a sage's caste; ask what they know.”
That's the whole idea. One line, and a conversation about something that has mattered for a thousand years.
If this stayed with you