📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 10 September 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 10 September 2026

📜 Hindi

भक्ति को अन्धियारा, ज्ञान को रोशनी कहा जाता है।

🔤 Transliteration

bhakti ko andhiyārā, jñān ko rośnī kahā jātā hai.

💬 Translation

Devotion is called darkness, and knowledge is called light.

A slightly more natural rendering:
Bhakti is regarded as darkness, whereas knowledge is regarded as light.

📚 Vocabulary

• भक्ति — bhakti: devotion, the path of devotion
• को — ko: here marks what is being given a name or description
• अन्धियारा — andhiyārā: darkness
• ज्ञान — jñān: knowledge; in the BK context, spiritual knowledge
• रोशनी — rośnī: light, illumination
• कहा जाता है — kahā jātā hai: “is called”, “is said to be”

⚙️ ️Grammar

The sentence contains two parallel structures:

भक्ति को अन्धियारा कहा जाता है।
bhakti ko andhiyārā kahā jātā hai.
→ “Bhakti is called darkness.”

ज्ञान को रोशनी कहा जाता है।
jñān ko rośnī kahā jātā hai.
→ “Knowledge is called light.”

कहा जाता है — kahā jātā hai is a very common passive construction:

कहना — kahnā = “to say / to call”
→ कहा जाता है — kahā jātā hai = “is called / is said to be”

Here, को — ko marks the thing that receives the designation:

ज्ञान को रोशनी कहा जाता है।
Literally: “Knowledge is called ‘light’.”

🌟 Meaning in the BK context

Here, अन्धियारा — andhiyārā and रोशनी — rośnī are symbolic.

भक्ति — bhakti refers to the period or path in which people seek God, worship Him and remember Him, but do not yet have clear knowledge of the soul, God, and the world cycle. For this reason, bhakti is compared to अन्धियारा — darkness.

ज्ञान — jñān, by contrast, brings spiritual understanding and clarity: “Who am I?”, “Who is God?”, and “What is my role?” It is therefore compared to रोशनी — light.

So the contrast is very simple:

भक्ति → अन्धियारा
bhakti → andhiyārā
devotion → darkness

ज्ञान → रोशनी
jñān → rośnī
knowledge → light.

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