FWP:
SETS == MULTIVALENT WORDS ( taab , jalnaa )
GAZE: {10,12}
ABOUT taab : In verses like this one wordplay is hard to distinguish from meaning-play. For the whole pleasure hinges on the various meanings of taab (and jalnaa ). The protean taab (a Persian cognate to the Sanskrit taap , as in tapasya ) has the root meaning of 'heat', from which its associations of wrath, radiance, and endurance are all semi-metaphorically derived (see the definition above). More verses based on taab wordplay: {15,9}, be-taab ; {53,2}; {64,2}; {204,8}.
ABOUT jalnaa : The literal
meaning of jalnaa is of course 'to burn' (see the definition above), but its range
of extended, semi-metaphorical associations include suffering, pain, and jealousy/envy (on this latter sense see {53,4}). Some examples with jalnaa : {05}, of which it is the refrain. Compare the somewhat more limited range of garmii ({81,9x}).
In the first line, the sight of the taab , radiance, of the beloved's face ought to consume the lover in flame (1a); or, his own taab , endurance, of the sight of the beloved's face ought to consume him in flames of jealousy/wrath at his own toughness and presumptuousness (1b). In the second line, in either case the lover burns with jealousy and rage against his own 'strengh of sight', which has caused him to behave not with the glorious self-abandon of the Moth flying into the candle-flame, but with an entirely discreditable, un-lover-like enduringness (see {1,2} for the related concepted of sa;xt-jaanii , 'tough-lifedness'). In short, it is the lover's failure to jalnaa that causes him to jalnaa ; the problem is his taab of the beloved's taab .
Nazm rightly points to {153,1}
as an excellent example of the same theme--
at the thought of his being able to see the beloved, the lover exclaims that
he is 'jealous of himself'.
Nazm:
The way lightning is the limit case [of light intolerable to the eyes], in the same way the author has expressed the limit case of jealousy: I myself burn at my own strength of vision. The same meaning he has expressed very clearly in a later verse: {153,1}. (55-56)
== Nazm page 55; Nazm page 56