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📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 11 February 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 11 February 2026
📜 Hindi
ईश्वर को भूल जाते तो फिर झूठ कह देते, इसलिए बड़ा युक्ति से समझाना है जो सर्प भी मरे लाठी भी न टूटे.
🔤 Transliteration
īśvar ko bhūl jāte to phir jhūṭ kah dete, isliye baṛī yukti se samjhānā hai jo sarp bhī mare lāṭhī bhī na ṭūṭe.
💬 Translation
“If they forget God, then they start speaking lies. Therefore, one must explain things with great tact and strategy — in such a way that the snake dies but the stick does not break.”
📚 Vocabulary
- ईश्वर (īśvar) – God
- भूल जाते (bhūl jāte) – (they) forget
- झूठ (jhūṭ) – lie, falsehood
- युक्ति (yukti) – strategy, clever method, skillful approach
- समझाना (samjhānā) – to explain, to make someone understand
- सर्प (sarp) – snake
- लाठी (lāṭhī) – stick, staff
- न टूटे (na ṭūṭe) – may not break / does not break
⚙️ Grammar
1️⃣ Conditional structure with तो
भूल जाते तो… कह देते
This expresses a conditional idea:
“If they forget… then they speak lies.”
The verb form जाते (habitual past) suggests a general or repeated tendency.
2️⃣ Instrumental with से
बड़ी युक्ति से
“with great strategy / with much tact”
The postposition से expresses the means or instrument.
3️⃣ Subjunctive in the proverb
मरे (may die)
टूटे (may break)
These are subjunctive forms expressing a desired result:
“so that the snake dies and the stick does not break.”
🐍 The Proverb Explained
Common form:
साँप भी मर जाए और लाठी भी न टूटे
🔹 Literal Meaning
Kill the snake with a stick —
but without breaking the stick.
🔹 Figurative Meaning
Solve a problem:
- ✔ eliminate the danger
- ✔ without harming yourself
- ✔ without creating further conflict
- ✔ without damaging relationships
It implies diplomacy, balance, and intelligent handling.
🔹 Rough English Equivalent
- “Have your cake and eat it too” (partially similar)
- “Kill two birds with one stone” (not exact)
- Better: “Solve the problem without collateral damage.”
The Hindi image emphasizes strategic wisdom rather than efficiency.
🌿 Meaning in This Sentence
The message is:
When people forget God, they drift into falsehood.
Therefore, when correcting or explaining something, it must be done:
- with tact
- with wisdom
- without aggression
- without breaking relationships
In other words:
👉 Remove the error (the “snake”)
👉 Without damaging harmony (the “stick”)
✨ Core Concept: युक्ति (Yukti)
This word is important.
It means:
- intelligent strategy
- skillful method
- practical wisdom
- subtle diplomacy
The teaching is not only about truth —
it is about how truth is communicated.
(content generated with the help of ChatGPT 5.2, copied and validated by me)
Definitions
Big, large, great, huge, important, commodious, expansive.
Noble, reputed.
Elder, elderly, senior.
Grown up.
Rich.
adv. Very, exceedingly.
Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.
To forget.
To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.
On this account, for this reason, hence, therefore.
God, Ruler, Master, Lord.
Falsehood, lie, untruth.
False, untrue, incorrect.
Relative pronoun (without distinction of gender or number): who, that, which, what. Can be coupled with vah creating an identity relationship between the two terms of two propositions in the sentence.
Say.
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)
A staff, stick, club, cudgel, bludgeon.
Crutch.
To die, to pass away, to wither away, to become ineffective, to vanish, to disappear, to discontinue, to be absorbed, to fall for. Death, post-death rites.
Not (subjunctive or imperative).
Na .. na, Neither .. nor.
Repetitive Compounds of indefinite Pronouns, and of Adverbs formed from them are made by placing the Negative particle between the two words. These Compounds have a pronounced indefinite force. (A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi - Appendice III 5-j)
Then, again, afterwards, thereafter, in future, a second time.
(Causative of samajhnā) To persuade, explain.
Serpent, snake.
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)
Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.
To break, to be broken, to be fractured, to be shattered.
To have twitching pain.
To be on the wane.
To be dissolved.
To fail.
Device.
Means.
Tactics, artifice, manoeuvre.
Skill.
Argument, plea.