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📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 05 June 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 05 June 2026
📜 Hindi
कन्या पर मार पड़ती है तो लाचारी हालत में गन्धर्वी विवाह कराया जाता है। वास्तव में मार भी सहन करनी चाहिए, परन्तु अधरकुमारी नहीं बनना चाहिए।
🔤 Transliteration
kanyā par mār paṛtī hai to lācārī hālat meṃ gandharvī vivāha karāyā jātā hai. vāstav meṃ mār bhī sahan karnī cāhiye, parantu adhar-kumārī nahīṃ bannā cāhiye।
💬 Translation
If a young woman is subjected to beatings or severe pressure, then, in a situation of helplessness, a Gandharva marriage may be arranged for her. In reality, one should even endure such hardships or pressures; however, one should not become an adhar-kumari.
In the BK sense:
It is better to endure difficulties while preserving the status of a kumari than to lose that status and become an adhar-kumari.
📚 Vocabulary
| Hindi | Transliteration | Meaning |
| कन्या | kanyā | maiden, unmarried girl, virgin |
| मार पड़ना | mār paṛnā | to be beaten, to suffer abuse or pressure |
| लाचारी | lācārī | helplessness, inability to choose |
| हालत | hālat | condition, situation |
| गन्धर्वी विवाह | gandharvī vivāha | Gandharva marriage |
| कराना | karānā | to cause to do, to arrange |
| सहन करना | sahan karnā | to endure, tolerate |
| वास्तव में | vāstav meṃ | in reality |
| अधरकुमारी | adhar-kumārī | a woman who is no longer physically a virgin but chooses a life of purity |
| पवित्र | pavitra | pure, chaste |
⚙️ Grammar
1. मार पड़ती है (mār paṛtī hai)
This is an idiomatic Hindi expression.
Literally:
"beatings fall upon someone"
Natural meaning:
"to be beaten," "to suffer abuse," or "to face severe pressure."
कन्या पर मार पड़ती है
= "The girl is subjected to beatings or pressure."
2. लाचारी हालत में (lācārī hālat meṃ)
A common expression combining two related nouns:
- लाचारी = helplessness
- हालत = condition, state
Together:
"in a helpless situation,"
"when there is no other option,"
"under compulsion."
3. विवाह कराया जाता है (vivāha karāyā jātā hai)
कराना (karānā) is the causative form of करना (karnā).
- करना = to do
- कराना = to cause to be done, to arrange
विवाह कराया जाता है
= "a marriage is arranged"
= "one has the marriage performed."
The passive construction जाता है expresses a general practice or procedure.
4. सहन करनी चाहिए (sahan karnī cāhiye)
चाहिए (cāhiye) expresses what ought to be done.
मार भी सहन करनी चाहिए
= "one should even endure the beatings/pressure."
The particle भी (bhī) adds emphasis:
"even that should be endured."
🌟 Cultural Note: Gandharva Marriage
In classical Hindu tradition, गन्धर्व विवाह (gandharva vivāha) is one of the traditional forms of marriage, based primarily on the mutual consent of the couple rather than family arrangements or elaborate rituals.
In older BK usage, the term was sometimes applied to special circumstances where a marriage was considered necessary because of intense family opposition or social pressure.
🌟 BK Note: Meaning of Adhar-Kumari
This is a specialized term found in older BK vocabulary.
कुमारी (kumārī)
A young woman who:
- has never entered married or sexual life,
- remains physically virgin,
- lives in purity.
अधरकुमारी (adhar-kumārī)
Literally:
- अधर (adhar) = half, incomplete
- कुमारी (kumārī) = maiden, virgin
In BK usage, it generally refers to:
a woman who has lost her physical virginity or has experienced married life, but later chooses to live a pure and celibate life.
She is pure in her present conduct, but she is no longer considered a kumari in the strict sense.
🌟 Meaning of the Passage in Its BK Context
This passage reflects a period when some BK young women faced strong family opposition because they wished to remain pure and unmarried.
The underlying message is:
- A young woman may face pressure, coercion, or even violence.
- In extreme circumstances, a Gandharva marriage might be arranged.
- Nevertheless, the ideal is to preserve the status of kumari.
- It is considered preferable to endure hardships than to lose that status and become an adhar-kumari.
The central theme of the passage is therefore purity (pavitratā), which is presented as a spiritual ideal. 🌸
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Definitions
अधरकुमारी adharkumārī (sanskrit)
A girl who chose the path of purity after becoming impure.
To become, be, change, belong (with a possessive pronoun or a noun in the genitive case).
Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.
Is necessary, is needful, is requisite, is proper, is right.
It behoves.
Should, ought, must (be).
गन्धर्वी विवाह gandharvī vivāh (sanskrit)
A Gandharva marriage is one of the eight classical types of Hindu marriage. This ancient marriage tradition from the Indian subcontinent was based on consensual acceptance between two people, with no rituals, witnesses or family participation. When the young man and the girl mutually agreed, this type of marriage was considered solemnized only after performing the Havan (a fire ritual, yagna performed on special occasions with fire) brought from the house of a learned brahmin and taking three rounds around the Havan Kund(fire pit) in mutual alliance. In the Indian perspective, the marriages of Shakuntala-Dushyant, Pururava-Urvashi, Vasavadatta-Udayan are famous examples of Gandharva marriages.
(Bābā) According to the rules of this marriage the couple maintain celibacy in their relations.
State, condition.
(plural) Conditions, circumstances.
To go, to depart, to lose, to flow.
A girl, a virgin.
A daughter.
The sign Virgo.
A name of Durgā.
To cause to be done, cause to be made; to actuate, effect, make; to perform (sacrifice, etc.), to assist.
To do.
Also used after a transitive English verb to conjugate.
Helplessness.
Compulsion.
To kill.
To beat, to belabour, to hit, to strike, to punish, to subdue.
To misappropriate, not to repay.
To chop off.
To win.
To turn ineffective.
To reduce to ashes.
में is used for denoting :
- Location or presence (of something) in or within something.
- Duration.
- Price.
- Comparison with reference to more than two, or difference.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
No.
Not.
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)
But, however.
To fall, to fall down, to drop.
To lie (down).
To occur, to befall.
To be involved; to be hit.
(Following the uninflected infinitive of another verb, paṛnā, like honā, signifies 'have to,' 'must'; e.g. usko jāne paṛā, 'he had to go'; — annexed to the base of some neuter verbs it forms intensives, as gir-paṛnā, 'to fall down'; — annexed to the base of a transitive verb it has generally the sense of honā, as dekh paṛnā, 'to be seen,' 'to become visible').
Patient endurance, forbearance, tolerance.
Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.