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यह पृष्ठ इस उपकरण पर ऑफ़लाइन उपलब्ध है।
यह पृष्ठ इस उपकरण पर ऑफ़लाइन उपलब्ध है।
📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 17 January 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 17 January 2026
📜 Hindi
पहले होती है अव्यभिचारी भक्ति एक शिवबाबा की, फिर देवताओं की, फिर उतरते-उतरते अभी तो देखो टिवाटे पर ( जहाँ तीन रास्ते मिलते हैं ) भी मिट्टी का दीवा जगाए, तेल आदि डाल उनकी भी पूजा करते हैं.
🔤 Transliteration
pahle hotī hai avyabhicārī bhakti ek Śivbābā kī, phir devtāoṅ kī, phir utarte-utarte abhī to dekho tivāṭe par (jahā̃ tīn rāste milte haiṅ) bhī miṭṭī kā dīvā jagāe, tel ādi ḍāl un kī bhī pūjā karte haiṅ.
💬 Translation
At first there is pure, exclusive devotion to the one Shiv Baba. Then there is devotion to the deities. And then, gradually descending further and further, look at today: even at road junctions—where three paths meet—people light a small earthen lamp, pour oil into it, and worship even those places.
👉 The sentence describes a progressive decline of bhakti:
from a conscious, exclusive relationship with the One, to increasingly fragmented, material, and mechanical practices.
📚 Vocabulary
- पहले (pahle) – first, in the beginning
- होती है (hotī hai) – there is / it takes place
- अव्यभिचारी (avyabhicārī) – exclusive, faithful, without deviation
- a- (without) + vyabhicār (dispersion, infidelity)
- भक्ति (bhakti) – devotion
- एक (ek) – one, only
- शिवबाबा (Śivbābā) – Shiva understood as the Supreme Father
- देवताओं (devtāoṅ) – the deities
- उतरते-उतरते (utarte-utarte) – while descending gradually
- अभी तो देखो (abhī to dekho) – just look now / look at today
- टिवाटा (tivāṭā) – a local word for a road junction, often where three roads meet
- मिट्टी का दीवा (miṭṭī kā dīvā) – an earthen lamp
- तेल आदि (tel ādi) – oil, etc.
- उनकी भी पूजा (un kī bhī pūjā) – worship of even those
⚙️ Grammar
1️⃣ Three-stage structure (chronological descent)
The sentence unfolds in three stages:
- पहले – the original state
- फिर – the next phase
- फिर उतरते-उतरते – a slow but continuous decline
👉 This is a typical murli-style explanation of spiritual descent.
2️⃣ Importance of अव्यभिचारी (avyabhicārī)
This word indicates:
- no mixing,
- no deviation,
- a single, focused direction of devotion.
👉 It deliberately contrasts with the multiplicity described later.
3️⃣ Why the word टिवाटा (tivāṭā) matters
- dialectal, non-Sanskritic,
- rural and popular in tone,
- associated with folk practices.
👉 Its use intentionally lowers the register, highlighting spiritual decline.
4️⃣ The crucial role of भी (bhī)
In:
उनकी भी पूजा करते हैं
भी = “even”, “also”.
👉 It expresses extreme dispersion:
everything becomes an object of worship.
🪔 Why lamps and offerings at such places?
🔀 The road junction (टिवाटा)
In popular Indian belief:
- a liminal place (neither here nor there),
- considered unstable or vulnerable,
- associated with unnamed local forces or spirits.
🪔 The earthen lamp
- earth (मिट्टी) → the lowest, most perishable element
- fire/light → protection from darkness and negativity
👉 This is not knowledge-based devotion, but protective ritual.
🍶 Oil and offerings
They imply:
- a transactional logic:
“I give something so that no harm comes to me.”
- devotion driven by fear, not love or understanding.
📉 Deeper Spiritual Meaning (Murli / BK reading)
The sentence shows a movement from:
- One known, Supreme God
→ many deities
→ local symbols
→ anonymous places and forces
Bhakti becomes:
- external,
- mechanical,
- disconnected from true knowledge.
👉 The earthen lamp at the crossroads becomes the final symbol of degraded bhakti.
🧾 Essential Summary
- 🔝 Beginning: pure, exclusive, conscious devotion
- 🔽 Middle: devotion divided among many forms
- 🔽🔽 End: fear-based, local, mechanical rituals
- 🪔 Crossroads + earthen lamp = lowest stage of bhakti
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Definitions
Emphatic form of ab : now.
Etcetera.
Beginning.
Early, initial, primordial.
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.
Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.
To put in, to pour, to drop, to thrust.
To see, to look, to view, to perceive, to observe.
To consider.
To experience.
A god, deity, divine being. (does not apply to God)
A light, a lamp, lantern.
One, 1, a, single, alone.
The number one.
The One, the Number One. God. There is only one God (Supreme Being) but many gods and goddesses (golden age deities).
To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.
To wake up, to awaken, to arouse, to rouse.
To make conscious or alert; to stimulate.
To kindle, to revive (as a flagging fire).
Where, wherever.
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.
- Possession and relationship.
- Material or composition.
- Worth and measure (space or time).
- Source, origin, cause.
- Subject (doer of an act).
- Object (of an activity).
- Part of a whole.
- Purpose.
- Characteristic.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
To do.
Also used after a transitive English verb to conjugate.
To meet, to encounter, to be mixed, to be mingled, to unite, to merge, to tally, to conform, to obtain, to get, to acquire, to be acquired, to beget, to embrace, to form an alliance.
Earth, soil, clay, dirt, dust.
Mortal remains.
First, first of all, in the beginning, in olden times, originally, before, beforehand.
पर denotes :
- Location or position on or upon or at something.
- Point of time at which an action takes place.
- Sequence of actions of happenings.
- Cause or reason.
- Objects of (compound) Verbs signifying mercy, faith, confidence, anger etc.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
Then, again, afterwards, thereafter, in future, a second time.
Daily religious rite, divine service; the rite of pūjā gradually supplanted the solemn rites of Vedic sacrifice (yagya).
Worship, adoration, veneration.
Road, way, path, street, lane.
Way, manner.
The Father Śiv.
A meeting place of three roads.
Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.
To get down, to alight, to go down.
To come off or decay; to be dislocated.
To land, to disembark.
Third person personal pronoun: he, she, it (and also they).
Distant demonstrative pronoun and adjective: that (and also those).