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📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 18 October 2025
📅 Murli sentence of 18 October 2025
📜 Hindi
आदि सनातन देवी-देवता धर्म प्रायः लोप हो गया है।
🔤 Transliteration
ādi-sanātana devī-devatā dharma prāyaḥ lopa ho gayā hai.
💬 Translation
The original and eternal religion of the deities has almost completely disappeared.
📚 Vocabulary
| Word | Literal meaning | Explanation / nuance |
| आदि (ādi) | original, first | referring to the very beginning of the world cycle (the Golden Age). |
| सनातन (sanātana) | eternal, everlasting | that which never changes, recurring in every world cycle. |
| देवी-देवता (devī-devatā) | goddesses and gods | human souls in their pure, divine stage—beings of complete virtue. |
| धर्म (dharma) | religion, law, righteous path | here, the divine code of purity, truth, peace and love. |
| प्रायः (prāyaḥ) | almost, for the most part, nearly | suggests something is not entirely gone, but its living form is lost, leaving only traces or memory. |
| लोप हो गया (lopa ho gayā) | has vanished, has become extinct | from Sanskrit lup, “to disappear, to be erased”; expresses gradual loss. |
| है (hai) | is | auxiliary verb, showing present state after past change. |
⚙️ ️Grammar
- The full phrase आदि सनातन देवी-देवता धर्म acts as the subject of the sentence.
- The verbal phrase लोप हो गया है literally means “has become disappeared,” expressing an action completed in the past but still true now.
- The adverb प्रायः modifies the verb, softening it: not total disappearance, but near-extinction.
Literal structure:
“The original eternal deity religion has (now) become almost erased.”
🌼 Spiritual meaning (Brahma Kumaris interpretation)
In the BK teachings,
Ādi Sanātan Devī-Devatā Dharma refers to the original and eternal religion of divine souls —
the way of life of human beings in their perfect, godly stage at the beginning of the world cycle (the Golden Age).
It represents not an organized religion, but a state of consciousness and conduct —
a life of innate purity, love, truth, and harmony.
The expression
प्रायः लोप हो गया है (prāyaḥ lopa ho gayā hai)
means that this divine state no longer exists in the living world,
yet its memory, symbols, temples, and scriptures still remain.
So the dharma is not annihilated, only veiled — its essence survives as remembrance,
and it will re-emerge at the start of the new cycle.
🕉️ Meaning in classical Hindu tradition
In traditional Hindu philosophy, Sanātan Dharma is one of the oldest names of Hinduism —
“the Eternal Law” or “the timeless spiritual order.”
The Brahma Kumaris use a more specific term:
Ādi Sanātan Devī-Devatā Dharma — “the original eternal religion of the deities,”
meaning the Sanātan Dharma in its first, perfect form, before its decline and division into later paths and sects.
| Perspective | Expression | Meaning |
| Hindu | Sanātan Dharma | The eternal Hindu tradition, the universal moral law. |
| BK | Ādi Sanātan Devī-Devatā Dharma | The original divine civilization of pure human souls, the first stage of Sanātan Dharma. |
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Definitions
Etcetera.
Beginning.
Early, initial, primordial.
आदि सनातन देवी-देवता धर्म ādi sanātan dēvī-dēvtā dharm (sanskrit)
Eternal and first Law that of the goddesses and gods, the ancient and first Law that of the goddesses and gods.
The Goddess.
A goddess.
A consort of a god: esp. Durgā (wife of Śiva in Hinduism).
A lady.
देवी-देवता dēvī-dēvtā (sanskrit)
Goddess and god.
A god, deity, divine being. (does not apply to God)
What is to be held or kept: the complex of religious and social obligations which a devout Hindu is required to fulfil, right action, duty; morality; virtue, virtuous life; justice.
Customary observances of community or sect, etc.
The prescriptions or sanctions of religion; moral law.
Religion.
Particular nature or character; walk of life; way of life (e.g. of a woman as opposed to a man, of a man as opposed to a youth); caste.
Spiritual merit, as deriving from the fulfilment of dharma.
To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.
To go, to depart, to lose, to flow.
For the most part, generally, often.
Approximately; nearly, almost.
प्रायः लोप prāyaḥ lōp (sanskrit)
Almost disappeared.
Existing from of old, immemorial; continuing, eternal.