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📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 28 November 2025
📅 Murli sentence of 28 November 2025
📜 Hindi
आत्मा का स्वधर्म है शान्त ।
बाकी शान्ति कहाँ से ढूंढेगी ।
इस पर रानी का भी दृष्टान्त है हार का ।
🔤 Transliteration
ātmā kā sva-dharma hai śānt.
bākī śānti kahā̃ se ḍhū̃ḍhegī?
is par rānī kā bhī dṛṣṭānt hai hār kā.
💬 Translation
The soul’s original nature is peace.
So where else would he search for peace?
In this regard, there is also the example of the queen and her necklace.
📚 Vocabulary
- ātmā — soul
- svadharma — one’s inherent nature / intrinsic quality
- śānt — peaceful (adjective)
- śānti — peace (noun)
- kahā̃ se ḍhū̃ḍhegī — where would it go to look?
- dṛṣṭānt — example, parable
- rānī — queen
- hār — necklace
⚙️ ️Grammar
🔸 “svadharma hai śānt”
A compact expression meaning:
“Peace is the soul’s own intrinsic nature.”
🔸 Future feminine “ḍhū̃ḍhegī”
Because śānti (peace) is feminine, the verb agrees with it:
“Where would peace go searching?”
The implied answer: nowhere, because peace is already the soul’s quality.
🔸 “hār kā dṛṣṭānt” — the example of the necklace
A well-known Indian parable used in Vedānta and Yoga to illustrate the mistake of searching outside for something already within.
🪔 The Story of the Queen and the Necklace
Here is the authentic version used in Indian spiritual teachings — simple, coherent, and without modern additions:
Once, there was a queen.
One day, she felt as if her necklace had fallen off.
Alarmed, she began to search for it throughout the palace.
Her maids, servants, and guards searched everywhere, but no one found the necklace.
At last, a wise maid said:
“Your Majesty, please place your hand on your neck.”
The queen touched her neck and discovered that the necklace had been there all along.
Ashamed, she said:
“What I believed was lost had never left me.”
✨ Spiritual Meaning in the Murli
- The soul’s original nature = peace.
- To look for peace outside — in places, people, silence of the forest, rituals — is like the queen searching for the necklace everywhere except where it truly is.
The Murli’s message:
You cannot find outside what already belongs to your inner identity.
Peace is not acquired; it is remembered.
The queen’s story perfectly illustrates the error of outward searching and the need for inner awareness.
(content generated with the help of ChatGPT 5.1, copied and validated by me)
Definitions
The soul, the spirit, the self.
But if.., but, nevertheless.
Remaining, left over, remainder, balance, arrears, subtraction.
Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.
To seek, search for.
To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.
का denotes one of the under-mentioned relations between a Noun or a Pronoun and another Noun which follows the former. If the Noun that follows is Feminine (singular or plural), का changes to की; if it is Masculine and Plural, or has an oblique form, का changes to के.
- Possession and relationship.
- Material or composition.
- Worth and measure (space or time).
- Source, origin, cause.
- Subject (doer of an act).
- Object (of an activity).
- Part of a whole.
- Purpose.
- Characteristic.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
Interrogative pronominal adverb : Where ?
पर denotes :
- Location or position on or upon or at something.
- Point of time at which an action takes place.
- Sequence of actions of happenings.
- Cause or reason.
- Objects of (compound) Verbs signifying mercy, faith, confidence, anger etc.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
Queen, beloved.
Peaceful, pacific, still, silent, quiet, quiescent, tranquil, unperturbed.
Peace, calmness, quiet, tranquillity, quietude, silence.
से is used for denoting :
- The Subject of a Verb in the passive and impersonal voices.
- The indirect Objects (which are usually persons) of the Verbs meaning 'to tell, say, ask, ask for, beg, demand, claim, request’.
- Means, instrument or agency.
- Manner.
- Cause, reason, origin.
- Association, antagonism.
- Separation or keeping away from.
- Starting point (place or time).
- Duration (with reference to a continuous 'action' of present or past).
- Difference and comparison between two persons or things.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
Own right; own duty, own religion; peculiar duty or occupation; the duties of one's own caste or class.
(Bābā) Dharm of the self (the soul): peace.
3rd person personal pronoun, demonstrative pronoun or determiner in a close context : he, she, this (also they, these).