📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 04 October 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 04 October 2026
📜 Hindi
मन का भोजन है संकल्प, तो जैसे तन के लिए दृढ़ संकल्प मैजारिटी ने किया है, ऐसे ही क्या मन के लिए व्यर्थ संकल्प, अशुद्ध भावना मिटा नहीं सकते?
🔤 Transliteration
mana kā bhojana hai saṅkalpa, to jaise tana ke lie dṛṛha saṅkalpa maijāriṭī ne kiyā hai, aise hī kyā mana ke lie vyartha saṅkalpa, aśuddha bhāvanā miṭā nahī̃ sakate?
💬 Translation
“Thoughts are the food of the mind. So, just as the majority have made a firm resolution regarding the body, can you not similarly eliminate waste thoughts and impure feelings from the mind?”
The word संकल्प — saṅkalpa carries slightly different meanings in this sentence: sometimes thought, and sometimes resolution.
📚 Vocabulary
- मन — mana / man: mind
- भोजन — bhojana / bhojan: food, nourishment
- संकल्प — saṅkalpa / sankalp: thought, intention; resolution
- तन — tana / tan: body
- के लिए — ke lie / ke liye: for
- दृढ़ — dṛṛha / drirh: firm, strong, determined
- दृढ़ संकल्प — dṛṛha saṅkalpa / drirh sankalp: firm resolution
- मैजारिटी — maijāriṭī / majority: majority, from English majority
- व्यर्थ — vyartha / vyarth: useless, wasteful, futile
- व्यर्थ संकल्प — vyartha saṅkalpa / vyarth sankalp: waste thoughts
- अशुद्ध — aśuddha / ashuddh: impure
- भावना — bhāvanā / bhavna: feeling, attitude, intention
- अशुद्ध भावना — aśuddha bhāvanā / ashuddh bhavna: impure feeling or intention
- मिटाना — miṭānā / mitana: to erase, remove, eliminate
- सकना — sakanā / sakna: to be able to
⚙️ ️Grammar
1. मन का भोजन है संकल्प
मन का भोजन है संकल्प।
mana kā bhojana hai saṅkalpa.
man ka bhojan hai sankalp.
Literally:
“The food of the mind is thought.”
का — kā marks a possessive relationship:
मन का भोजन
mana kā bhojana
= “the food of the mind”
The word order भोजन है संकल्प — bhojana hai saṅkalpa gives some emphasis to संकल्प.
A more neutral word order would be:
मन का भोजन संकल्प है।
mana kā bhojana saṅkalpa hai.
2. दृढ़ संकल्प करना
दृढ़ संकल्प करना
dṛṛha saṅkalpa karanā
= “to make a firm resolution”, “to be firmly determined”
In:
मैजारिटी ने किया है
maijāriṭī ne kiyā hai
ने — ne marks the subject of a transitive verb in the perfective construction.
So:
मैजारिटी ने दृढ़ संकल्प किया है।
maijāriṭī ne dṛṛha saṅkalpa kiyā hai.
= “The majority have made a firm resolution.”
3. जैसे … ऐसे ही …
The construction:
जैसे … ऐसे ही …
jaise … aise hī …
means:
“just as … in the same way …”
In the sentence:
जैसे तन के लिए दृढ़ संकल्प…
jaise tana ke lie dṛṛha saṅkalpa…
“just as a firm resolution has been made regarding the body…”
followed by:
ऐसे ही क्या मन के लिए…
aise hī kyā mana ke lie…
“in the same way, regarding the mind, can you not…?”
The sentence therefore creates a clear contrast between:
तन — tana — the body
and
मन — mana — the mind.
4. क्या … नहीं सकते?
क्या … मिटा नहीं सकते?
kyā … miṭā nahī̃ sakate?
Literally:
“Can you not eliminate…?”
This is a rhetorical question.
The intention is not really to ask whether it is possible, but to encourage the listeners:
“If you can exercise such determination regarding the body, surely you can do the same regarding the mind.”
🔎 The Different Meanings of संकल्प
The word संकल्प — saṅkalpa appears three times, but it does not have exactly the same meaning each time.
मन का भोजन है संकल्प
mana kā bhojana hai saṅkalpa
Here संकल्प mainly means:
thought, mental creation.
→ “Thoughts are the food of the mind.”
दृढ़ संकल्प
dṛṛha saṅkalpa
Here it means:
resolution, determination.
→ दृढ़ संकल्प = “firm resolution”.
व्यर्थ संकल्प
vyartha saṅkalpa
Here it again means:
thoughts.
→ व्यर्थ संकल्प = “waste thoughts”.
So within the same sentence:
संकल्प → thought / resolution / thought
depending on the context.
🌟 Meaning in the BK Context
मन का भोजन है संकल्प।
mana kā bhojana hai saṅkalpa.
man ka bhojan hai sankalp.
“Thoughts are the food of the mind.”
The image here is one of nourishment: just as we pay attention to what we give the body, we should also pay attention to what we give the mind.
The sentence creates a parallel between:
तन — tana / tan
the body
and
मन — mana / man
the mind.
Two things are especially mentioned in relation to the mind:
व्यर्थ संकल्प
vyartha saṅkalpa
vyarth sankalp
= waste thoughts, unnecessary thoughts that consume mental energy;
and
अशुद्ध भावना
aśuddha bhāvanā
ashuddh bhavna
= impure feelings, intentions, or inner attitudes.
The question:
क्या … मिटा नहीं सकते?
kyā … miṭā nahī̃ sakate?
“Can you not eliminate them?”
is therefore an invitation to apply the same दृढ़ता — dṛṛhatā, the same firmness and determination, to the mind as one may already apply to the body.
The parallel can be summarized as:
तन के लिए दृढ़ संकल्प
tana ke lie dṛṛha saṅkalpa
→ a firm resolution regarding the body
मन से व्यर्थ संकल्प और अशुद्ध भावना मिटाना
mana se vyartha saṅkalpa aura aśuddha bhāvanā miṭānā
→ eliminating waste thoughts and impure feelings from the mind.
The central idea is therefore: discipline should not concern only the body; it should especially be applied to the quality of the “food” we give the mind — our thoughts.
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Definitions
Such, of this type.
Impure.
Corrupt (as language or style).
Erroneous, inaccurate, incorrect, wrong.
Sentiment, feeling, emotion.
Food, victuals, dish of food, meal.
Firm, resolute, strong-willed.
Strong.
Tough, hard.
Rigid, tenacious.
Emphatic particle with a sense of exclusion : only.
To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.
Similar to, like, resembling, as, such as.
का denotes one of the under-mentioned relations between a Noun or a Pronoun and another Noun which follows the former. If the Noun that follows is Feminine (singular or plural), का changes to की; if it is Masculine and Plural, or has an oblique form, का changes to के.
- Possession and relationship.
- Material or composition.
- Worth and measure (space or time).
- Source, origin, cause.
- Subject (doer of an act).
- Object (of an activity).
- Part of a whole.
- Purpose.
- Characteristic.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
To do.
Also used after a transitive English verb to conjugate.
For, for the sake of.
Interrogative pronoun What? for an open question.
Interrogative adjective What?, Which? (if followed by a name).
Interrogative pronoun for a closed question (yes/no type).
To take.
For, with a view to, for the sake of, on account of.
Taking, carrying, bearing.
Majority.
The instinctive mind that creates thoughts according to its desires or aversions. Faculty of human beings shared with animals and small children.
Thought in the form of desire or aversion.
To be effaced, to be erased.
To be ruined, to be undone, to be destructed.
No.
Not.
A postposition denoting the subject (ergative case that is to say with a past participle).
To can, to be able to.
Determination, resolve, resolution, will.
Mind, thought, idea.
(Bābā) Thought, idea.
(Bābā) Right idea, pure thought (śuddha khyāl)
Body.
Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.
Useless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, unprofitable.