📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 11 September 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 11 September 2026

📜 Hindi

गृहस्थ व्यवहार में रहते कमल फूल समान बनना है।

🔤 Transliteration

gṛhastha vyavahār meṃ rahte kamala phūla samāna bananā hai.

💬 Translation

While living a family life and carrying out worldly responsibilities, one has to become like a lotus flower.

A more natural rendering would be:

One should live in the world like a lotus flower, while continuing to fulfil one’s family responsibilities.

📚 Vocabulary

• गृहस्थ — gṛhastha: a householder; someone living a family life
• व्यवहार — vyavahār: conduct, practical affairs, dealings, everyday activities
• गृहस्थ व्यवहार — gṛhastha vyavahār: family life and everyday worldly responsibilities
• में — meṃ: in
• रहते — rahte: while remaining, while living
• कमल — kamala: lotus
• फूल — phūla: flower
• कमल फूल — kamala phūla: lotus flower
• समान — samāna: similar to, like
• बनना — bananā: to become
• है — hai: is; here, with बनना है — bananā hai, it expresses something that has to be done

⚙️ ️Grammar

1. रहते — rahte: “while remaining / while living”

रहते — rahte comes from:

रहना — rahnā
“to stay, to remain, to live”

In:

गृहस्थ व्यवहार में रहते…
gṛhastha vyavahār meṃ rahte…

रहते — rahte expresses a continuing situation while something else is being done.

So the sense is:

“while living a family life…”

An important point is that the sentence does not suggest leaving family life. The person continues to live within it.

2. कमल फूल समान — kamala phūla samāna: “like a lotus flower”

समान — samāna means:

“similar, equal, resembling.”

So:

कमल फूल समान
kamala phūla samāna

literally means:

“similar to a lotus flower”

and more naturally:

“like a lotus flower.”

A related construction is:

कमल के समान — kamala ke samāna
“like a lotus / similar to a lotus.”

The shorter expression कमल फूल समान — kamala phūla samāna is very natural in the language of the Murlis.

3. बनना है — bananā hai: “one has to become”

बनना — bananā = to become
है — hai = is

But the construction:

बनना है — bananā hai

often expresses necessity, intention, or a goal.

So here it means:

“one has to become” / “we have to become.”

The subject is not explicitly stated because it is understood from the context.

🌟 Meaning in the BK context

The कमल फूल — kamala phūla, the lotus flower, grows in water and mud while remaining above the water and unaffected by it.

In the same way:

गृहस्थ व्यवहार में रहते — gṛhastha vyavahār meṃ rahte

means continuing to live with one’s family, work, interact with others, and fulfil everyday responsibilities.

But:

कमल फूल समान बनना है — kamala phūla samāna bananā hai

means becoming inwardly detached while doing all of this — not becoming trapped by attachment or body consciousness.

The teaching is therefore not to leave family life or withdraw from the world. Rather, it is to remain spiritually detached while fully carrying out one’s responsibilities:

“Live in the world while remaining inwardly detached, like the lotus flower that stays in the water without being affected by it.”

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