📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 05 October 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 05 October 2026
📜 Hindi
कहते हैं ना - दे दान तो छूटे ग्रहण।
🔤 Transliteration
kahte haiṃ nā — de dān to chūṭe grahaṇ.
💬 Translation
“As the saying goes: make a donation, and the eclipse will pass.”
In the Murli context, it can also be rendered more freely as:
“As the saying goes: give up what must be given up, and you will be freed from its influence.”
Here, the Murli takes a traditional proverb and gives it a very specific BK spiritual meaning.
📚 Vocabulary
| Hindi | Transliteration | Meaning |
| कहते हैं | kahte haiṃ | they say, one says |
| ना | nā | isn’t it?, you know; conversational particle |
| दे | de | give! |
| दान | dān | donation, gift, charity |
| तो | to | then, in that case |
| छूटे | chūṭe | be released, go away, disappear |
| ग्रहण | grahaṇ | eclipse; figuratively: obscuring or harmful influence |
दान — dān
Traditionally, दान means a religious or charitable gift: money, food, clothes, or some other offering.
In the Murli, however, the word is reinterpreted. Here it is not mainly about giving a material object, but about “giving” one’s vices and defects, meaning surrendering them to the Father and giving them up.
The next sentence makes this explicit:
बाप भी कहते हैं विकारों का, अवगुणों का दान दो।
IAST: bāp bhī kahte haiṃ vikāroṃ kā, avaguṇoṃ kā dān do.
Hinglish: Baap bhi kahte hain vikaaron ka, avgunon ka daan do.
“The Father too says: donate your vices and defects.”
Or more naturally:
“The Father too says: give up your vices and defects.”
⚙️ ️Grammar
1. कहते हैं ना — kahte haiṃ nā
This is a very common spoken expression:
कहते हैं ना...
= “As they say…”
= “You know how they say…”
= “As the saying goes…”
Here ना is not simply “no”. It is a conversational particle inviting agreement or referring to something already familiar.
2. दे दान — de dān
दे is the familiar imperative of देना — denā, “to give”.
दान means “donation” or “gift”.
Literally:
दे दान
= “give a donation”
In natural English:
“make a donation” or “give in charity.”
The short, repetitive wording also gives the expression its proverbial rhythm.
3. तो — to
In:
दे दान तो छूटे ग्रहण
तो introduces the result or consequence:
“Give a donation, then the eclipse will pass.”
An expanded version would be:
अगर दान दोगे तो ग्रहण छूटेगा।
agar dān doge to grahaṇ chūṭegā.
“If you make a donation, then the eclipse will pass.”
4. छूटे — chūṭe
The verb छूटना — chūṭnā can mean:
- to become detached,
- to be released,
- to go away,
- to disappear,
- to be freed from something.
So:
ग्रहण छूटे
grahaṇ chūṭe
means:
“the eclipse passes”
or
“one becomes free from the eclipse.”
In the BK interpretation, it naturally becomes:
“to become free from the influence of the vices.”
🌞 Traditional meaning of the proverb
The saying:
दे दान तो छूटे ग्रहण।
de dān to chūṭe grahaṇ.
is connected with traditional Indian beliefs and practices surrounding eclipses — ग्रहण (grahaṇ).
An eclipse has traditionally been regarded in many Indian religious contexts as an inauspicious or impure period. दान — dān, charitable giving, is one of the meritorious acts traditionally associated with such occasions.
The traditional sense is therefore roughly:
“Make a donation and you will be freed from the harmful influence of the eclipse.”
The imagery is also very strong: something temporarily obscures the light, and then that obscuration passes.
🌟 Meaning in the BK context
The Murli takes this image of an eclipse and gives it a new spiritual meaning.
The passage says:
अब 5 विकारों का ग्रहण लगा हुआ है, इसलिए बाप कहते हैं दे दान तो छूटे ग्रहण।
IAST:
ab pāṃc vikāroṃ kā grahaṇ lagā huā hai, isliye bāp kahte haiṃ de dān to chūṭe grahaṇ.
Hinglish:
Ab 5 vikaaron ka grahan laga hua hai, isliye Baap kahte hain de daan to chhoote grahan.
“Now the eclipse of the five vices has taken hold; therefore the Father says: ‘Give the donation and the eclipse will pass.’”
Here ग्रहण — grahaṇ no longer refers to an astronomical eclipse.
The “eclipse” symbolically represents the influence of the five vices:
- काम — kām: lust / sexual desire
- क्रोध — krodh: anger
- लोभ — lobh: greed
- मोह — moh: attachment
- अहंकार — ahaṅkār: ego
They are compared to an eclipse because they obscure the soul’s original purity and qualities.
🎁 What does “giving the donation” mean here?
The following sentence explains it:
बाप भी कहते हैं विकारों का, अवगुणों का दान दो।
bāp bhī kahte haiṃ vikāroṃ kā, avaguṇoṃ kā dān do.
“The Father too says: give up your vices and defects.”
So दान — dān becomes a metaphor for renunciation or surrender.
One “gives” to the Father:
- विकार — vikār: vices
- अवगुण — avaguṇ: defects, negative qualities
The idea is therefore not to give something valuable to someone else, but rather:
to hand over to the Father what one wants to get rid of, and not take it back again.
🌑 The five vices as an eclipse
The passage says:
अब 5 विकारों का ग्रहण लगा हुआ है।
ab pāṃc vikāroṃ kā grahaṇ lagā huā hai.
“Now the eclipse of the five vices has taken hold.”
The expression ग्रहण लगना — grahaṇ lagnā is normally used for an eclipse taking place.
The Murli applies it metaphorically to the soul: the vices have covered or obscured its purity.
The image is therefore:
pure soul → five vices → obscuration
just as:
sun → eclipse → light obscured
✨ The result: becoming complete with 16 kalās
The text continues:
यह काम विकार ही गिराने वाला है इसलिए बाप कहते हैं यह दान दो तो 16 कला सम्पन्न बन जायेंगे।
IAST:
yah kām vikār hī girāne vālā hai isliye bāp kahte haiṃ yah dān do to solah kalā sampanna ban jāyeṃge.
Hinglish:
Yah kaam vikaar hi giraane wala hai, isliye Baap kahte hain yah daan do to 16 kala sampann ban jaayenge.
“It is this vice of lust that causes the fall; therefore the Father says: give this away, and you will become complete with the sixteen kalās.”
Here 16 कला सम्पन्न — solah kalā sampanna refers in BK vocabulary to the complete perfection associated with the deities of the Golden Age, especially Lakshmi and Narayan.
The passage therefore creates a contrast between:
5 विकारों का ग्रहण
pāṃc vikāroṃ kā grahaṇ
“the eclipse of the five vices”
and
16 कला सम्पन्न
solah kalā sampanna
“complete with the sixteen kalās.”
The vices obscure perfection; giving them up allows that perfection to be restored.
🌟 Central idea of the proverb in the Murli
The Murli therefore gives a spiritual reinterpretation to the traditional proverb.
Traditional meaning:
दान — dān = a charitable or religious donation
ग्रहण — grahaṇ = eclipse / harmful influence
→ “Make a donation and the harmful influence of the eclipse will pass.”
BK meaning:
दान — dān = surrendering or giving up one’s vices and defects
ग्रहण — grahaṇ = the influence of the five vices over the soul
→ “Give your vices to the Father, and you will become free from their influence.”
This double meaning is what gives दे दान तो छूटे ग्रहण its force in the Murli: a traditional external act of donation is transformed into an inner act of renunciation.
(content generated with the help of ChatGPT, copied and validated by me)
Definitions
To be left behind or out, to lag.
To be dismissed, discharged or released.
To get rid of.
To be abandoned.
Donation, charity, alms, a religious gift (in cash or kind).
A suffix used to denote a stand, container or pot etc.
To give.
Eclipse.
Taking, catching, seizing.
Say.
Emphatic particle at the end of the sentence: no?, isn't it?
No.
Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.