📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 24 January 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 24 January 2026

📜 Hindi

रावण का अर्थ ही है 5 विकार स्त्री में , 5 विकार पुरुष में.

🔤 Transliteration

Rāvaṇ kā arth hī hai 5 vikār strī meṁ, 5 vikār puruṣ meṁ.

💬 Translation

The very meaning of “Rāvaṇ” is: the five vices in women and the five vices in men.

Or more explanatory:

Rāvaṇ symbolically represents the five vices present in women and the five vices present in men.

📚 Vocabulary

• रावण (Rāvaṇ) – Rāvaṇa; here used symbolically, not as a historical person
• अर्थ (arth) – meaning, sense
• ही (hī) – precisely, exactly, nothing but (strong emphasis)
• विकार (vikār) – vice, inner distortion, moral weakness
• स्त्री (strī) – woman
• पुरुष (puruṣ) – man
• में (meṁ) – in, within

⚙️Grammar

1️⃣ का अर्थ ही है – strong emphasis

• का अर्थ = the meaning of
• ही adds exclusiveness and emphasis

👉 “the very meaning”, “nothing else but”

So the sentence does not suggest a possible interpretation, but a definitive definition.

2️⃣ Omitted verb (didactic Hindi style)

• The verb है (hai) is implied at the end.
• This is common in spoken, explanatory, and spiritual Hindi.

3️⃣ The Five Vices (vikār) – implied knowledge

The five vices commonly understood here are:

1. काम (kām) – lust / desire
2. क्रोध (krodh) – anger
3. लोभ (lobh) – greed
4. मोह (moh) – attachment
5. अहंकार (ahaṅkār) – ego

👉 The sentence specifies:

• Five vices in women
• Five vices in men

➡️ This explains the symbolic idea of Rāvaṇ having ten heads.

🔍 Implicit Philosophical Meaning

This sentence demythologizes Rāvaṇ:

• Rāvaṇ is not presented as a historical individual
• He is a symbol of collective inner corruption
• Evil is not external, but within the soul through vikārs

👉 Rāvaṇ = the rule of vices over the soul, regardless of gender.

🧩 Possible Teaching Reformulation

रावण कोई व्यक्ति नहीं है, वह विकारों का रूप है।
Rāvaṇ is not a person; he is the embodiment of vices.

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