📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 12 March 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 12 March 2026

📜 Hindi

धोबी अच्छे कपड़े साफ न करे तो कहेंगे ना कि यह तो जैसे हज़ाम है।

🔤 Transliteration

dhobī acche kapṛe sāf na kare to kahẽge nā ki yah to jaise hazām hai.

💬 Translation

“If a washerman does not clean good clothes properly, people will say: then he is like a barber.”

📚 Vocabulary

• धोबी (dhobī) — washerman, traditional laundryman
• अच्छे (acche) — good, good-quality
• कपड़े (kapṛe) — clothes
• साफ करना (sāf karnā) — to clean, to make clean
• न करे (na kare) — does not do
• तो (to) — then, in that case
• कहेंगे (kahẽge) — they will say / people will say
• ना (nā) — rhetorical particle (“you know”, “isn’t it”)
• कि (ki) — that
• जैसे (jaise) — like, as if
• हज़ाम (hazām) — barber

⚙️ Grammar

1️⃣ Conditional structure

न करे तो कहेंगे

A common Hindi conditional pattern:

X न करे तो Y

Meaning:
“If X does not do…, then Y will happen.”

Here:

• धोबी अच्छे कपड़े साफ न करे
  “If the washerman does not clean the clothes properly”
• तो कहेंगे
  “then people will say…”

2️⃣ Future used impersonally

कहेंगे (kahẽge)

Although grammatically plural (“they will say”), in Hindi it often means:

• “people will say”
• “one will say”

So the sentence means a general social reaction.

3️⃣ The particle ना

कहेंगे ना

The particle ना is used to involve the listener.

It implies something obvious:

“people will say, won’t they?”

It is very typical of spoken Hindi.

4️⃣ Comparison with जैसे

जैसे हज़ाम है

• जैसे = like / as if
• हज़ाम = barber

Meaning:

“He is like a barber.”

In other words:
he is acting as if he had a completely different profession.

🧺 Usual Cultural Meaning

In traditional Indian society:

• धोबी (dhobi) → washes clothes
• हज़ाम (hazām) → barber who shaves and cuts hair

These are totally different occupations.

So the sentence humorously means:

👉 If a washerman cannot even wash good clothes properly, then he might as well be a barber.

In other words:

• he is not doing the job he is supposed to do
• he is useless at his own profession.

🧘 Meaning in BK (Brahma Kumaris) Language

In the Murli context, this image becomes spiritual symbolism.

1️⃣ The washerman = the purifier

Murli often says:

बाबा धोबी है
“Baba is a washerman.”

The meaning is symbolic:

• A washerman cleans dirty clothes
• Shiva cleans impure souls

So:

• clothes = souls
• dirt = vikār (vices) and vikarm (sins)

2️⃣ Clothes represent souls

In the context you provided:

• मैला कपड़ा → a very impure soul
• अच्छे कपड़े → relatively good souls

Some souls are:

• easier to purify
• others require much more effort.

3️⃣ The spiritual meaning of the sentence

The idea becomes:

👉 If even “good clothes” are not cleaned by the washerman, then people will say he is not really a washerman.

Spiritually this means:

If someone who is supposed to purify souls through knowledge cannot transform them, then it is as if he is not fulfilling the role of a spiritual washerman.

4️⃣ Dhobi vs Hazam in the BK metaphor

Symbolically:

• धोबी → one who purifies souls through spiritual knowledge
• हज़ाम → someone doing a completely unrelated job

So the meaning becomes:

👉 If purification does not happen, then that person is not really acting as a spiritual purifier.

✅ Summary

Literal meaning:
If a washerman cannot clean clothes properly, people will say he might as well be a barber.

BK meaning:
If someone who should purify souls through knowledge does not do so, then he is not truly playing the role of the spiritual “washerman.”

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