📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 18 November 2025

📅 Murli sentence of 18 November 2025

📜 Hindi

जैसे संन्यासी लोग कहते हैं ना - तुम समझो मैं भैंस हूँ … ऐसा समझकर कोठी में बैठ गया।
बोला मैं भैंस हूँ, कोठी से निकलूँ कैसे ?

🔤 Transliteration

jaise saṃnyāsī log kahte hain nā – tum samjho main bhains hū̃… aisā samajhkar koṭhī mẽ baiṭh gayā.
bolā main bhains hū̃, koṭhī se niklū̃ kaise?

💬 Translation

As the renunciates (sannyāsīs) say: “Just imagine that I am a buffalo…”
Thinking like that, he sat down inside the room.
He said: “I am a buffalo — how can I possibly get out of the room?”

📚 Vocabulary

• संन्यासी (saṃnyāsī) — renunciate, monk.
• तुम समझो (tum samjho) — “imagine / assume that…”.
• भैंस (bhains) — buffalo.
• ऐसा समझकर (aisā samajhkar) — having thought so; thinking in that way.
• कोठी (koṭhī) — room, house, bungalow.
• बैठ गया (baiṭh gayā) — he sat down.
• निकलूँ कैसे? (niklū̃ kaise?) — “how could I get out?” (subjunctive).

⚙️ ️Grammar

• जैसे … ना — conversational structure meaning “as … you know?”.
• –कर (samajh-kar) — gerundial: “by thinking / after considering”.
• Imperative (samjho) — polite suggestion: “imagine…”.
• Subjunctive 1st person (niklū̃) — expresses possibility: “could I get out?”.

🪔 The Traditional Story Behind the Line

This passage refers to a well-known story told by sannyāsīs and spiritual teachers:

A master tells his disciple:
“Assume that you are a buffalo. Observe what happens.”

The disciple takes the instruction literally.
He goes into a room and sits in a corner.

When the master comes back, he asks:
— “Why are you sitting here?”

The disciple replies:
— “Guruji, I am a buffalo.
A buffalo cannot go out through this small door,
so I cannot leave.”

The master smiles and explains:
“See? A single wrong belief has imprisoned you.
You are not a buffalo — but your thought created a limitation.”

Moral of the traditional story:
→ A false identity creates false limitations.
→ What you think you are becomes the cage you sit in.

✨ BK Interpretation

BK teachings use this story to illustrate body-consciousness vs soul-consciousness.

• The “buffalo” represents a heavy, gross, body-based identity.
• The “room” represents the narrow limits of ego and physical awareness.
• The disciple stuck inside = the soul trapped in false beliefs about the self.

Baba’s angle:
“Because you think you are a body, you feel confined and powerless.
Change the belief — ‘I am a soul’ — and the door opens.”

Thus:

• bhains samajhnā (“thinking I am a buffalo”) = body-consciousness.
• Getting out of the room = returning to soul-consciousness.

(content generated with the help of ChatGPT 5, copied and validated by me)

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