📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of August 30, 2025

📅 Murli sentence of August 30, 2025

📜 Hindi

तुम न काम कटारी की और न स्थूल हिंसा कर सकते हो.

🔤 Transliteration

tum na kām-kaṭārī kī aur na sthūl hiṃsā kar sakte ho.

💬 Translation

You can neither turn towards the dagger of lust nor commit physical violence.

📚 Vocabulary

• तुम (tum) = you (informal, but also used collectively in spiritual contexts).
• न … और न … (na … aur na …) = neither … nor …
• काम (kām) = desire, passion (often specifically sexual desire in spiritual teachings).
• कटारी (kaṭārī) = dagger, knife.
• काम कटारी (kām-kaṭārī) = “dagger of lust,” metaphor for the destructive power of sexual passion.
• की और (kī aur) = towards, in the direction of.
• स्थूल (sthūl) = gross, physical, material.
• हिंसा (hiṃsā) = violence, act of harm (opposite of अहिंसा ahiṃsā = non-violence).
• कर सकते हो (kar sakte ho) = you can do / you are able to do.

⚙️Grammar

1. Double negation structure:
   1. “न … और न …” = “neither … nor …”
   2. Here: “neither towards the dagger of lust, nor towards physical violence.”
2. की और (kī aur):
   1. Literally “towards the side of.”
   2. Figurative here: “turning towards / engaging with.”
3. Modal construction:
   1. “कर सकते हो” = “you can do.”
   2. In the negative: “you cannot do.”

🪔 Cultural / spiritual background

• In Brahma Kumaris and wider Indian spiritual discourse:
  • काम (kām) = lust, considered the most dangerous vice.
  • कटारी (kaṭārī) = metaphor for a weapon that wounds the soul.
• स्थूल हिंसा (sthūl hiṃsā) = physical violence, as opposed to सूक्ष्म हिंसा (sūkṣma hiṃsā) = subtle violence (through thoughts, words).
• The phrase conveys the teaching: a spiritual practitioner must abstain both from lust (the inner “dagger”) and from gross physical violence.

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