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📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 07 November 2025
📅 Murli sentence of 07 November 2025
📜 Hindi
अच्छा, फिर श्रीकृष्ण को सांवरा क्यों बनाया है ?
🔤 Transliteration
acchā, phir śrīkṛṣṇa ko sāṃvarā kyoṃ banāyā hai?
💬 Translation
“Alright then, why has Shri Krishna been shown with a dark complexion?”
or more naturally:
“So, why is Shri Krishna portrayed as blue or dark-skinned?”
📚 Vocabulary
| Hindi | Transliteration | Meaning |
| अच्छा (acchā) | okay, well | used to resume or question logically |
| फिर (phir) | then, so | introduces a conclusion or new question |
| श्रीकृष्ण (śrīkṛṣṇa) | Lord Krishna | divine figure, first birth of the purest soul |
| को (ko) | to / object marker | indicates the direct object of the verb |
| सांवरा (sāṃvarā) | dark, dusky, bluish | literally “of dark complexion” |
| क्यों (kyoṃ) | why | interrogative adverb |
| बनाया है (banāyā hai) | has been made / depicted | from बनाना – banānā, “to make, to create, to portray” |
⚙️ ️Grammar
- को + बनाना → “to make someone into something” or “to portray someone as…”
→ śrīkṛṣṇa ko sāṃvarā banāyā hai = “Krishna has been made dark.” - अच्छा, फिर… is a typical spoken way to reopen a discussion: “Well then…?”
- -या है (–yā hai) = perfect aspect, used for completed facts or general truths.
🌼 Cultural meaning
1. Traditional / Mythological view
In Indian mythology:
- Krishna is sometimes said to have absorbed poison (from Pūtanā’s milk or the serpent Kāliya), which made his skin appear blue.
- The blue color also symbolizes the infinite sky and ocean, expressing his cosmic nature and divine serenity.
- Artists therefore painted him blue to represent infinity, depth, and divinity, not literal skin color.
2. Spiritual interpretation (Brahma Kumaris)
According to the BK knowledge:
- Shri Krishna is the first birth of the purest soul at the beginning of the Golden Age (Satyug).
His body is originally radiant, fair, and luminous — not dark at all. - The same soul passes through the four ages of the world cycle.
As the soul loses purity, its inner light fades. - By the Iron Age (Kaliyug), the same soul — once divine — has become impure, ordinary, dark in consciousness.
- Later, devotees remembered Krishna, but only vaguely.
They sensed that he was divine and radiant, but unable to depict spiritual light, they painted him blue or dark, thinking it was his divine form.
Hence, in the BK understanding:
The dark or blue color of Krishna symbolizes the same soul that was once divine and luminous, now darkened by the influence of matter and time.
✅ Summary table
| Level | Meaning of “blue / dark” |
| Cultural / mythological | Result of poison or symbol of cosmic infinity |
| Poetic / devotional | Color of divine love and boundless consciousness |
| Spiritual (BK) | Symbol of the same soul at the end of the cycle — purity lost, inner light faded |
🌺 Essence
Krishna’s blue complexion is not a physical reality, but a symbol of transformation through the world cycle — the pure soul of the Golden Age, now darkened at the Iron Age.
(content generated with the help of ChatGPT 5, copied and validated by me)
Definitions
Good.
Well.
All right, well done.
So long.
To make, to construct, to compose, to build, to prepare, to make ready, to form.
To pull somebody's leg, to patch up, to develop a good equation with.
To befool.
को is used for denoting:
- A Person who 'does' something involuntarily (such as—like, dislike, remember, be injured, be offended, suffer, feel, enjoy, receive, happen, to have, to meet, to know, to see or to hear, or to do something under compulsion, requirement, necessity, obligation, etc.).
- An Animate Object, provided it denotes a particular being.
- The object of a Verb in the Neutral Construction.
- Every Secondary Object (which is usually animate).
- The Object of a Verb requiring a predicative word (referring to the object).
- Nouns denoting time when used adverbially.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
Why.
Then, again, afterwards, thereafter, in future, a second time.
Dark-complexioned. (connotation of ugliness in northern India because light complexion is a criterion of beauty).
Title of a lover or husband; specifically title of Kr̥ṣṇa.
(Bābā) Blackened or soiled by vice. The condition of us all in the Iron Age (regardless of skin color).
श्रीकृष्ण śhrīkr̥iṣhṇa (sanskrit)
The Divine Kṛiṣhṇa.