📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 25 September 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 25 September 2026
📜 Hindi
चढ़े तो चाखे वैकुण्ठ रस, गिरे तो एकदम चण्डाल।
🔤 Transliteration
caṛhe to cākhe vaikuṇṭha ras, gire to ekdam caṇḍāl.
💬 Translation
“If one rises, one tastes the nectar of paradise; if one falls, one falls to the very lowest state.”
More literally:
“If one climbs, one tastes the nectar of Vaikuṇṭha; if one falls, one becomes completely caṇḍāl.”
📚 Vocabulary
चढ़ना — caṛhnā: to climb, rise, ascend
चाखना — cākhnā: to taste, savour
वैकुण्ठ — vaikuṇṭha: Vaikuṇṭha, paradise
रस — ras: juice, flavour, nectar; figuratively, delight or deep experience
वैकुण्ठ रस — vaikuṇṭha ras: “the nectar / delight of paradise”
गिरना — girnā: to fall, descend
एकदम — ekdam: completely, totally
चण्डाल — caṇḍāl: caṇḍāla; traditionally, someone regarded as being at the very bottom or outside the social order. Here the word mainly expresses extreme degradation, the movement from the highest position to the lowest.
🔎 The proverb behind the sentence
The Murli is very likely echoing an old verse attributed to Kabir:
चढ़े तो चाखै प्रेम रस, गिरै तो चकनाचूर।
caṛhe to cākhai prem ras, girai to caknācūr.
“If one climbs, one tastes the nectar of love; if one falls, one is shattered to pieces.”
The verse is traditionally associated with the image of a tall date-palm tree:
लंबा पेड़ खजूर — lambā peṛ khajūr
“a tall date-palm tree”.
The idea is simple: the fruit is high up, so reaching it requires a difficult ascent.
If one succeeds in climbing:
चढ़े तो चाखै प्रेम रस
caṛhe to cākhai prem ras
“the one who climbs tastes the nectar of love.”
But if one falls:
गिरै तो चकनाचूर
girai to caknācūr
“the one who falls is completely shattered.”
चकनाचूर — caknācūr means “smashed to pieces, completely shattered”.
So the proverb conveys a strong idea: great elevation brings a great reward, but a fall from such a height can be especially serious.
🔄 How the Murli transforms the proverb
The Murli keeps the same basic opposition:
चढ़ना — caṛhnā
“to climb”
↔
गिरना — girnā
“to fall”
But it adapts both consequences to its own spiritual language.
In the proverb:
प्रेम रस — prem ras
“the nectar of love”
becomes in the Murli:
वैकुण्ठ रस — vaikuṇṭha ras
“the nectar of paradise”.
And:
चकनाचूर — caknācūr
“completely shattered”
becomes:
एकदम चण्डाल — ekdam caṇḍāl
“completely degraded / fallen to the very lowest state”.
So the Murli turns a mainly physical image — climbing high and possibly being shattered in a fall — into a more explicitly spiritual image: reaching a very elevated state, or suffering a very deep fall.
🔎 The meaning of चण्डाल — caṇḍāl
Historically, चण्डाल refers to someone regarded as being at the bottom or outside the traditional social hierarchy.
But here the meaning is mainly figurative.
The contrast is:
वैकुण्ठ — vaikuṇṭha
→ the highest state, paradise
चण्डाल — caṇḍāl
→ the lowest state, extreme degradation
The idea could therefore be paraphrased as:
चढ़े तो सबसे ऊँचा, गिरे तो सबसे नीचा।
caṛhe to sabse ū̃cā, gire to sabse nīcā.
“If one rises, one goes to the very top; if one falls, one falls to the very bottom.”
⚙️ ️Grammar
The structure:
चढ़े तो…, गिरे तो…
caṛhe to…, gire to…
is a concise conditional construction:
“if one climbs…, if one falls…”
It could be expanded as:
अगर चढ़े तो…, अगर गिरे तो…
agar caṛhe to…, agar gire to…
The word अगर — agar, “if”, is simply omitted.
🏢 The “fifth floor”
The context continues:
हड्ड गुड्ड टूट पड़ते हैं।
haḍḍ-guḍḍ ṭūṭ paṛte haĩ.
“The bones get completely broken.”
Then:
5 मंजिल से गिरते हैं।
pā̃c maṃzil se girte haĩ.
“They fall from the fifth floor.”
This image does not come directly from Kabir’s proverb, but it continues the same idea perfectly: the higher one has climbed, the more serious the fall can be.
In other Murlis, the image of floors is also used to describe spiritual descent. One finds, for example:
पांचवी मंजिल है — देह-अभिमान।
pā̃cavī mañzil hai — deh-abhimān.
“The fifth floor is body-consciousness.”
The image then continues with the idea of descending further.
So in this passage, 5 मंजिल से गिरते हैं strengthens the image of the proverb: this is not a small fall, but a fall from a very high position.
🌟 Meaning in the BK context
The Murli takes up a traditional image:
climbing very high → reaching something precious
falling from very high → suffering a very serious fall
and reformulates it in BK spiritual language:
चढ़े → वैकुण्ठ रस
caṛhe → vaikuṇṭha ras
ascent → the taste of paradise
गिरे → एकदम चण्डाल
gire → ekdam caṇḍāl
fall → the very lowest spiritual state
The following image of “falling from the fifth floor” extends the same metaphor.
The overall meaning is therefore: the higher the spiritual state one has attained, the more serious a fall from that state is presented as being.
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Definitions
To taste, to relish.
To go up, to ascend, to climb, to rise, to increase.
In a breath, in a moment; (all) at once; immediately.
Quite, completely.
To fall.
Juice.
(aesthetic) relish.
Sentiment.
Pleasure, enjoyment.
Taste, flavour.
Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.