📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 01 November 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 01 November 2026

📜 Hindi

और होली का दूसरा अर्थ है हो ली।

🔤 Transliteration

Aur holī kā dūsrā arth hai ho lī.

💬 Translation

“And Holi has a second meaning: what has happened is now over and done with.”

More literally:

“And the second meaning of Holi is: ‘It has happened; it is complete.’”

The sentence is based on a play on words between होली (holī), the festival of Holi, and हो ली (ho lī), a verbal construction expressing the completion of an event.

📚 Vocabulary

Hindi	IAST	English
और	aur	and
होली	holī	Holi, the Hindu festival of colours
का	kā	of
दूसरा	dūsrā	second, another
अर्थ	arth	meaning, significance
है	hai	is
हो	ho	verb stem of होना: to be, to become, to happen
ली	lī	feminine perfective form of लेना: to take

⚙️ ️Grammar

1. होली का दूसरा अर्थ — The second meaning of Holi

Holī kā dūsrā arth

The structure is:

Noun + का + adjective + noun

• होली: Holi
• का: of
• दूसरा: second
• अर्थ: meaning

The possessive marker का agrees with अर्थ (arth), which is masculine singular, not with होली (holī), which is feminine.

2. हो ली — A compound verb construction

This is the most interesting grammatical feature of the sentence.

हो ली (ho lī) consists of two verbal elements:

हो ho

Stem of होना (honā)

To be, to become, to happen

ली lī

Form of लेना (lenā)

Adds a sense of completion

हो + ली → हो ली

Has happened; is now complete

In Hindi, लेना can function as a vector verb, also called a light verb.

It combines with another verb and adds a particular nuance to its meaning.

Here, लेना does not literally mean “to take”. Instead, it emphasises that something has happened and reached completion.

The construction होना + लेना is attested in traditional Hindi grammar, although it is relatively uncommon in modern everyday Hindi.

3. Why is ली feminine?

ली (lī) is the feminine singular perfective form of लेना (lenā).

The feminine form can be understood through an implied feminine subject, such as बात (bāt), meaning “thing”, “matter”, or “event”.

A particularly relevant example appears in Kamtaprasad Guru's traditional Hindi grammar:

जो बात होनी थी सो हो ली।

Jo bāt honī thī so ho lī.

“What was meant to happen has happened.”

Breakdown:

• जो बात — the thing that…
• होनी थी — was supposed to happen
• सो — that very thing
• हो ली — has happened; is complete

The verb is feminine because बात is feminine.

This example shows that हो ली is a genuine Hindi grammatical construction, rather than merely an artificial division of the word होली.

In BapDada's sentence, the feminine form also makes the wordplay with होली possible.

4. Comparing हुई, हो गई, हो चुकी and हो ली

Expression	English meaning
बात हुई (bāt huī)	The event happened
बात हो गई (bāt ho gaī)	It happened; it is done
बात हो चुकी (bāt ho cukī)	It has already happened
बात हो ली (bāt ho lī)	It has happened; it is complete

हो गई is much more common in modern Hindi.

हो ली is less common, but it is a grammatically attested construction that fits particularly well with the play on words involving Holi.

5. The wordplay: होली / हो ली

होली holī

One word

The festival of Holi

हो ली ho lī

Two verbal elements

It has happened; it is complete

Both expressions are pronounced practically the same way.

The difference becomes visible when the word is written with a space.

This is a spiritual play on words, not an etymological explanation of the festival's name.

🌱 Meaning in the BK Context

The following passage makes the intended meaning clear:

हो गया, जो बीता सो बीता। हो ली।

Ho gayā, jo bītā so bītā. Ho lī.

“It has happened. What is past is past. It is over.”

BapDada then asks:

हो ली शब्द का अर्थ क्या निकलता? बीती सो बीती।

Ho lī śabd kā arth kyā nikaltā? Bītī so bītī.

“What meaning comes out of the expression ho lī? What is past is past.”

The expression बीती सो बीती

Bītī so bītī.

This traditional expression means:

“What is past is past.”

Grammatically:

• बीती (bītī) — feminine form derived from बीतना (bītnā), “to pass”, “to elapse”.
• सो (so) — a demonstrative or correlative meaning “that”, referring back to what has passed.
• बीती (bītī) — has passed.

The expression is elliptical: the feminine noun referring to what has passed is left unspoken.

The repetition emphasises that there is no point in mentally returning to events that are already over.

The spiritual teaching

In the BK context, हो ली means accepting that past events are finished and should no longer disturb the mind.

This involves letting go of past regrets, painful memories, old sanskars, and wasteful thoughts.

BapDada uses the festival of Holi to convey the idea of leaving the old behind and moving forward with a renewed state of consciousness.

The teaching is not necessarily about forgetting past experiences. Rather, it is about remaining free from their emotional influence.

🌟 Key Takeaway

होली (holī) refers to the festival of Holi.

हो ली (ho lī) is a compound verb construction formed from होना + लेना, in which ली marks completion in the feminine singular.

BapDada uses the similarity between the two expressions to convey a simple spiritual lesson:

बीती सो बीती।

Bītī so bītī.

“What is past is past.”

In other words, what has happened is over. Leave the past behind and move forward without allowing it to disturb your present state of mind.

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