📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 21 January 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 21 January 2026

📜 Hindi

बच्चों को तो बाप को पलकों में छिपाना पड़े.

🔤 Transliteration

Bacchoṅ ko to bāp ko palkoṅ meṅ chhupānā paṛe.

💬 Translation

The children have to keep the Father hidden within their eyelids.

Natural meaning:

👉 They must keep the Father constantly in their awareness, lovingly and intimately.

📚 Vocabulary

⚙️Grammar

1️⃣ को + पड़े → moral necessity

The structure X को … पड़े expresses inner or moral obligation.

It is not a forced command, but a felt necessity.

2️⃣ Infinitive + पड़े

छिपाना पड़े
→ have to keep hidden / must keep

A very common construction in spoken and spiritual Hindi.

3️⃣ Emphatic role of तो

तो adds insistence and warmth:

It gives the sentence a loving but firm reminder tone.

🧠 Meaning and Explanation

The expression पलकों में छिपाना (palkoṅ meṅ chhupānā) is metaphorical and emotional, not literal.

It means:

Here, the Father (बाप, bāp) is to be kept:

So the deeper meaning is:
👉 Never let the Father go out of your inner vision.

🪔 Deeper Implied Meaning

The sentence conveys:

The Father is not shown to the outer world,
He is protected and cherished within—like something extremely precious.

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Definitions

बच्चा bachchā (hindi)

Child, kid, baby, infant.
Inexperienced, raw, of unripe age.

बाप bāp (hindi)

Father.

छिपाना chhipānā (hindi)

To hide, to conceal.
To cover/screen.
To disguise.

को kō (hindi)

को is used for denoting:

में mē̃ (hindi)

में is used for denoting :

पलक پلك palak (persan)

The eyelid.
An eyelash.
The blinking of an eye: a moment, instant.

पड़ना paṛnā (hindi)

To fall, to fall down, to drop.
To lie (down).
To occur, to befall.
To be involved; to be hit.
(Following the uninflected infinitive of another verb, paṛnā, like honā, signifies 'have to,' 'must'; e.g. usko jāne paṛā, 'he had to go'; — annexed to the base of some neuter verbs it forms intensives, as gir-paṛnā, 'to fall down'; — annexed to the base of a transitive verb it has generally the sense of honā, as dekh paṛnā, 'to be seen,' 'to become visible').

तो tō (hindi)

Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.

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