shauq-e saamaan-e fu.zuulii hai vagarnah ;Gaalib
ham me;N sarmaayah-e iijaad-e tamannaa kab thaa
1) there is an ardor for the equipment of excess/extravagance-- otherwise, Ghalib,
2) in us, when was there the wealth/material of/for the creation of longing?!
saamaan : 'Furniture, baggage, articles, things, paraphernalia; requisites, necessaries, materials, appliances; instrument, tools, apparatus; provision made for any necessary occasion, necessary preparations; pomp, circumstance'. (Platts p.627)
fu.zuulii : 'Excess, extravagance, exorbitance; superfluity, redundance, exuberance; — independence; — meddlesomeness, officiousness'. (Platts p.782)
sar-maayah : 'Principal sum, capital, stock in trade; fund, funds, assets, means, resources; materials'. (Platts p.655)
iijaad : 'Creation, production; invention, contrivance'. (Platts p.112)
In {255x,7} he says that we ourself had struck down psychological desires; otherwise, there was a great deal [of material] for creating longings. Here, it's the opposite of that. When did we have the skill/ability for longing?! All this is the doing of ardor, which made us a slave to profitless longing.
== Zamin, p. 97
fu.zuulii = trifling, and doing meaningless things. saamaan-e fu.zuulii = collecting trifling equipment. Ardor wishes to obtain various kinds of useless equipment; it has colorful desires. Otherwise, we had no skill/ability to form various kinds of desires.
SETS == VARNAH
For more on Ghalib's unpublished verses, see the discussion in {4,8x}. See also the overview index.
On the subtleties of vagarnah , see {3,5}.
It's hard to figure out the relationship of the saamaan in the first line to the sarmaayah in the second line. No matter how I try to put them together, the result doesn't feel very satisfying.
For another view of the 'equipment' of longing, see {255x,7} (as Zamin suggests).
Asi:
Because of ardor, all this excessive equipment accumulates, and this disturbs us. Otherwise, oh Ghalib, the truth is that in us there was never at all the material for the creation of longing. Whatever excesses there are, they have all become manifested due to ardor.
== Asi, p. 76