Gujarati: Be the change you want to see happen in the world

[TimeHP]

Hi all.
Could you tell me how do you write/say in Gujarati the famous sentence by Mahatma Gandhi:
Be the change you want to see happen in the world?

Many thanks

 

[cweeetguy2000]

je parivartan tame sansar ma jova maango cho te tame pela pota ma lavo.

 

[tamah]

cweeetguy2000, I understood almost every word of the sentence except 'pota' What is the meaning of this word?

 

[Subhash Kumar]

cweeetguy2000, I understood almost every word of the sentence except 'pota' What is the meaning of this word?

Sorry for jumping in ... 'pota' means self (himself, herself or themselves). It is equivalent to "khud" in Hindi/Urdu.

 

[tamah]

Thanks Subhash

 

[TimeHP]

Many thanks, cweeetguy2000. Could you tell me which word means
change? Would you write 'change' in Gujarati characters?

Thank you indeed

 

[tamah]

In the said sentence the word for change is 'parivartan'

Gujrati script = 'પરિવર્તન'

Hindi script = 'परिवर्तन'

 

[TimeHP]

Great, Tamah!
Many thanks...

 

[dfeg]

Hi guys, I'm looking for something very similar. I would really like to have the start of the quote translated into Gujrati Script. So just

be the change

 

[Dib]

Hi guys, I'm looking for something very similar. I would really like to have the start of the quote translated into Gujrati Script. So just

be the change

પરિવર્તન બનો

... But I am not sure how idiomatic it would sound in Gujarati. The previous version uses a different wording which implies "bring the change in yourselves".

 

[dfeg]

Thanks for getting back Dib, Really appreciate it.
If that's the case what do you think would be the closest to the original quote

 

[Dib]

Hi, dfeg, I do not know whether the statement was made by Gandhi originally in Gujarati or another language (e.g. English). On top of that, when cweetguy2000 posted the Gujarati version, they did not mention whether it was Gandhi's version or just a translation from the English statement. So, I am afraid I cannot really help you there. What I can do, is to extract the relevant portion from cweetguy2000's version without any guarantee about its closeness to the "original":

પોતા માં પરિવર્તન લાવો