📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of September 19, 2025

📅 Murli sentence of September 19, 2025

📜 Hindi

माँ-बाप, भाई-बहन, टीचर-गुरू कितनों की मत मिलती है.

🔤 Transliteration

mā̃-bāp, bhāī-bahan, ṭīcar-gurū kitnon kī mat miltī hai.

💬 Translation

So many opinions come from parents, brothers and sisters, teachers, and spiritual gurus.

📚 Vocabulary

• माँ-बाप (mā̃-bāp): parents.
• भाई-बहन (bhāī-bahan): brothers and sisters.
• टीचर (ṭīcar): teacher (from English teacher).
• गुरू (gurū): spiritual master, guide.
• मत (mat): opinion, advice; in philosophy/religion → doctrine, school of thought.
• मिलती है (miltī hai): meets, is found, is received.
• कितनों की (kitnon kī): “of so many people.”

⚙️Grammar

1. Enumeration:
   1. The list (parents, siblings, teachers, gurus) highlights the many sources of influence.
2. कितनों की मत (kitnon kī mat):
   1. Genitive plural → “the opinion of so many.”
   2. मत (mat) is feminine, hence verb agrees → मिलती है (miltī hai).
3. Meaning nuance:
   1. Not just “many opinions exist,” but “they come from everywhere, often conflicting.”

🪔 Cultural / Spiritual Dimension

• In everyday Hindi, मत (mat) = opinion, advice.
• In philosophy/religion, मत also means “doctrine, school of thought” (e.g., bauddh mat = Buddhist doctrine).
• The phrase therefore works on two levels:
  • everyday life → everyone gives advice, often contradictory.
  • spiritual life → many doctrines exist, each pulling in a different direction.

👥 Concrete Example

Think of a young Indian student:

• Parents: “Choose a safe career, become a doctor or engineer.”
• Siblings: “Go abroad, try something new.”
• Teachers: “Focus on exams, success comes from study.”
• Guru: “Don’t run after material life, seek inner peace.”

👉 Outcome: countless voices, each with its own logic, but they don’t always agree.

✨ Brahma Kumaris Perspective

• The BKs emphasize the contrast between:
  • मत (mat) = human opinions, numerous and conflicting.
  • श्रिमत (śrīmat) = “supreme advice” or “God’s elevated direction.”
• Human opinions scatter and confuse.
• God’s Shrimat gives one clear direction, beyond all contradictions.

👉 The teaching: rise above the crowd of opinions, and follow the one elevated guidance that brings clarity and stability.

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