📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 13 December 2025

Murli sentence of 13 December 2025

📜 Hindi

परहेज भी रखनी है।
दवाई में भी परहेज रखी जाती है।

🔤 Transliteration

parhez bhī rakhnī hai.
davāī meṃ bhī parhez rakhī jātī hai

💬 Translation

One must also observe restraint.
Even when taking medicine, restraint is observed.

📚 Vocabulary

• परहेज (parhez)
  restraint, restriction, abstinence, discipline
  → BK sense: conscious self-discipline in actions, thoughts, and habits
• दवाई (davāī)
  medicine, treatment, remedy
• रखनी है (rakhnī hai)
  “has to be observed / maintained”
  → expresses a natural necessity, not a harsh command
• रखी जाती है (rakhī jātī hai)
  “is observed”
  → passive, general rule or universal practice

⚙️ ️Grammar

1️⃣ Feminine agreement

parhez is treated as feminine in spoken Hindi:

• rakhnī hai
• rakhī jātī hai

This is very common in oral Hindi and in murlis.

2️⃣ Soft obligation

The construction rakhnī hai conveys:

• something obvious
• something naturally required

It reflects Baba’s gentle, explanatory teaching style.

3️⃣ Generalizing passive

rakhī jātī hai means:

“it is normally observed”

This turns the medical example into a universal principle.

🔍 BK Meaning (with Context)

🔸 Link with the context

Context given:

aisā karma nahīṃ karo jo negative actions increase.

Baba is warning against actions that increase the burden of negative actions.

🔸 BK meaning of parhez

In BK usage, parhez does not mean harsh renunciation.
It means:

• conscious restraint in karma
• awareness in thoughts
• control of the senses
• deliberately avoiding what one knows creates negative actions

In short:

understanding what harms the soul and choosing not to repeat it.

🔸 The medical metaphor (davāī)

The example is intentionally simple and practical:

• When a person takes davāī,
  they naturally follow parhez.
• Without restraint, medicine:
  • works poorly
  • or does not work at all.

In the same way:

• gyān is the spiritual medicine
• yoga is the method of assimilation
• parhez is the essential condition

Without restraint:

• knowledge remains intellectual
• yoga remains unstable
• negative actions continue to accumulate

🔸 Parhez is not severe austerity

Very important in BK teaching:

• parhez ≠ harsh tapasya
• parhez ≠ physical mortification
• parhez ≠ extreme renunciation

It is a gentle but constant inner discipline,
based on understanding rather than fear.

✨ Condensed BK Meaning

👉 Knowledge is the medicine;
restraint is the condition for it to work.

This principle is as natural in spirituality
as it is in medicine.

(content generated with the help of ChatGPT 5.1, copied and validated by me)

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