📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 1 October 2025

📅 Murli sentence of 1 October 2025

📜 Hindi

बाकी सब हैं भक्ति मार्ग के शास्त्र, कर्म-काण्ड की क्रियायें।

🔤 Transliteration

bākī sab haiṁ bhakti-mārga ke śāstra, karma-kāṇḍ kī kriyāyeṁ.

💬 Translation

“All the rest belongs to the scriptures of the path of bhakti (devotion) and to ritual practices.”

📚 Vocabulary

⚙️Grammar

  1. बाकी सब हैं (bākī sab haiṁ)
    1. बाक़ी = “the rest”
    2. सब = “all”
    3. हैं = “are” (present plural)
      → “Everything else is…”
  2. भक्ति मार्ग के शास्त्र (bhakti-mārga ke śāstra)
    1. Literally: “the scriptures of the path of devotion.”
    2. के marks the genitive (plural/masculine).
  3. कर्म-काण्ड की क्रियायें (karma-kāṇḍ kī kriyāyeṁ)
    1. कर्म-काण्ड = ritual section / ritual system.
    2. की = genitive feminine singular, because it refers to क्रिया (feminine).
    3. क्रियायें = practices → “the practices of ritual.”

🪔 Cultural context

Bhakti (भक्ति मार्ग)

Śāstra (शास्त्र)

Karma-kāṇḍ (कर्म-काण्ड)

✨ Overall meaning

The phrase reduces the value of scriptures and rituals by calling them “all the rest.”
👉 Implicit message: while scriptures (śāstra) and ritual practices (karma-kāṇḍ) belong to the devotional path, they are not the essence of true spiritual knowledge.

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Definitions

बाकी bākī (hindi)

But if.., but, nevertheless.

बाकी باقي bākī (arabe)

Remaining, left over, remainder, balance, arrears, subtraction.

बाकी सब bākī sab (hindi)

Everything else, everyone else, all the rest.

भक्ति bhakti (sanskrit)

Religious devotion, adoration, loving faith, piety, devoted service.
(Bābā) Bhakti, the system of worship based on faith in God, devotion and love for Him, devoid however of the true knowledge (gyan) about Him.

भक्ति मार्ग bhakti mārg (hindi)

The path of Bhakti, the path of devotion (one of the three paths prescribed for the achievement of human salvation; the other two being gyān and yōg).
(Bābā) All paths aspiring to liberation other than that the path God teaches. (which therefore fail in the liberation of the soul).

होना hōnā (hindi)

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

का kā (hindi)

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.

कर्म karm (sanskrit)

Action (with its fruit, and implications of merit); an act, deed.
(moral) duty or obligation.
A religious observance, action or rite (as sacrifice, ablution, funeral obsequies).
Fate (as the consequence of previous acts); fortune, lot.
Result, effect.

कर्मकाण्ड karmkāṇḍ (sanskrit)

That part of the Veda which relates to ceremonial acts and sacrificial rites.
The body of religious ceremonies enjoined by Hindu law or established by custom.

क्रिया kriyā (sanskrit)

An action, act, deed.
A religious act or ceremony; a pious act, duty; obsequies; an oath.
A verb.

मार्ग mārg (sanskrit)

Way, path, route, course, road, track, passage, outlet.

सब sab (hindi)

All, entire, whole, total.
Every.
All people, everybody, the whole.

शास्त्र śhāstra (sanskrit)

Scripture(s), a religious or scientific treatise, a composition of divine or secular authority.

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