St Kabeer's Couplets 7: What Use Your Stature So Tall? Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

What use if your stature towers all?
O like date-trees ever so tall,
Wayfarers never fair shade fetch,
The fruits are way far off to catch.
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Hereunder is given the original doha, a couplet by Kabeer, which when rendered in English takes all of four lines, a quatrain or more:

Bada hua to kya hua, jaise lambi khajoor
Panthi ko chaya nahin, phal laage ati door

Name and fame is ever so lame, Kabeer says. How useful are you to others? That is the name of the game. He gives an example of a date tree to substantiate his point.

Topic: name, fame, stature