📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of September 15, 2025

📅 Murli sentence of September 15, 2025

📜 Hindi

भगवानुवाच - काम चिता पर बैठ सांवरे बन जाते हैं फिर ज्ञान चिता पर बैठने से गोरा बनेंगे.

🔤 Transliteration

bhagavān uvāca – kāma citā par baiṭh sā̃vare ban jāte haĩ phir jñāna citā par baiṭhne se gorā banen̄ge.

💬 Translation

The Lord said: “By sitting on the funeral pyre of desire, one becomes darkened; but by sitting on the funeral pyre of knowledge, one becomes bright and pure.”

📚 Vocabulary

⚙️Grammar

  1. भगवानुवाच: compound from Sanskrit bhagavān (the Lord) + uvāca (he said, archaic verb form).
  2. - पर बैठ: common Hindi structure for “sitting on,” here used metaphorically: “placing oneself upon / being dominated by.”
  3. बन जाते हैं / बनेंगे:
    1. ban jāte haĩ → “they become” (present, habitual).
    2. banen̄ge → “they will become” (future).
      → Contrast between present degeneration through desire and promised purification through knowledge.
  4. The opposition kāma-citā ↔ jñāna-citā creates a sharp metaphor: two fires that transform in opposite directions.

🪔 Cultural and spiritual dimension

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Definitions

बैठना baiṭhnā (hindi)

To sit, to squat, to occupy a seat, to settle, to board, to mount.

बनना bannā (hindi)

To become, be, change, belong (with a possessive pronoun or a noun in the genitive case).

भगवानुवाच bhagvānuvāch (sanskrit)

Bhagvān says, God says. (expression repeated in the Gītā)

चिता chitā (sanskrit)

A pile of wood (on which the Hindūs burn their dead), a funeral pile, pyre.

गोरा gōrā (hindi)

White, fair-skinned.
A whiteman, a European.

ज्ञान gyān (sanskrit)

Knowledge directly taught by God.

ज्ञान चिता gyān chitā (sanskrit)

Funeral pyre of Gyān, funeral pyre of Knowledge. By listening to what God teaches (the murlī), the bodily ego (body consciousness) is burned. This is what is called 'dying alive'.

होना hōnā (hindi)

To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.

जाना jānā (hindi)

To go, to depart, to lose, to flow.

काम kām (sanskrit)

Passion, lust.
Desire.

काम चिता kām chitā (sanskrit)

Funeral pyre of desire.

पर par (hindi)

पर denotes :

फिर phir (hindi)

Then, again, afterwards, thereafter, in future, a second time.

सांवरा sāṅvarā (hindi)

Dark-complexioned. (connotation of ugliness in northern India because light complexion is a criterion of beauty).
Title of a lover or husband; specifically title of Kr̥ṣṇa.
(Bābā) Blackened or soiled by vice. The condition of us all in the Iron Age (regardless of skin color).

से sē (hindi)

से is used for denoting :

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