“क्लेश प्रेम की भावना में समा जाता है, डूब जाता है।”
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Probable attribution
This saying is widely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but the attribution is not supported by a reliable primary source.
Likely origin: Hindi-edition text of Gandhi's work (labelled Hind Swaraj); a genuine Gandhi translation but carrying OCR footnote-number artifacts (e.g. 'क्लेश2').
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When real care is present, pain doesn't disappear so much as loosen its grip. Attention shifts from the wound to the person or cause you love, and the ache stops running the show — hardship becomes something you carry for a reason rather than suffer alone.
When to use it
- A parent barely sleeping through a newborn's colicky nights yet feeling the exhaustion soften into tenderness.
- Nursing a sick partner for months and finding the drudgery lightened by the closeness it slowly builds.
- Caring for an aging relative until the early resentment eases into something that feels like devotion.