📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 23 April 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 23 April 2026

📜 Hindi

जिसको ही संन्यासी काग-विष्टा के समान सुख कहते हैं।

🔤 Transliteration

jisko hī saṃnyāsī kāga-viṣṭā ke samāna sukha kahte haiṃ.

💬 Translation

It is this very kind of happiness that renunciates describe as being like crow’s droppings.

More naturally in context:
Renunciates say that this kind of happiness is like crow’s droppings.

👉 The tone is strongly dismissive: this “happiness” is considered worthless, impure, and insignificant.

📚 Vocabulary

• जिसको ही (jisko hī)

➡️ जिसको ही =
“that very thing which…” / “precisely that…”

• संन्यासी (saṃnyāsī)

A saṃnyāsī is someone who has renounced worldly life and attachments.

• काग (kāga)

• विष्टा (viṣṭā)

👉 काग-विष्टा (kāga-viṣṭā) =
“crow’s droppings”

A very strong metaphor for something:

• के समान (ke samāna)

Used for comparisons.

• सुख (sukha)

Here it refers to worldly or sensory pleasure, not spiritual bliss.

• कहते हैं (kahte haiṃ)

⚙️ Grammar

Core structure:

जिसको … सुख कहते हैं
= “what is called happiness”

Then qualified by:

काग-विष्टा के समान
= “like crow’s droppings”

👉 Full idea:
“What people call happiness is, according to renunciates, something as worthless as crow’s droppings.”

• Relative construction: जिसको

The correlative (वह / उसको) is omitted, which is common in Hindi when the meaning is clear.

• Emphasis with ही

ही (hī) adds strong focus:

👉 जिसको ही =
“that very thing which…”

This reinforces the contrast between:

• Comparison structure: X के समान

Pattern:

Common structure:

🔍 Deeper meaning in context

In the broader passage, there is a contrast between:

This sentence supports the idea that:

👉 worldly happiness is:

So the metaphor:

काग-विष्टा के समान सुख
means a “happiness” that is:

🕉️ Cultural & spiritual nuance

This kind of imagery is common in Indian spiritual discourse, especially among ascetics.

The point is not just to insult worldly pleasure, but to show:

📘 Very literal translation

👉 Literal:
“That very thing which renunciates call a happiness like crow’s droppings.”

(Not natural in English, but useful to see the structure.)

💡 Simple takeaway

What people consider happiness in the world is, for renunciates, something extremely low, impure, and without real value.

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Definitions

ही hī (hindi)

Emphatic particle with a sense of exclusion : only.

होना hōnā (hindi)

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

जो jō (hindi)

Relative pronoun (without distinction of gender or number): who, that, which, what. Can be coupled with vah creating an identity relationship between the two terms of two propositions in the sentence.

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.

कहना kahnā (hindi)

Say.

समान samān (sanskrit)

Equal, equivalent, similar, alike, identical, tantamount.

संन्यासी sannyāsī (sanskrit)

One who abandons or resigns; one who has abandoned all worldly possessions and affections, an ascetic, a devotee.
A Brāhmaṇ of the fourth order or āśram, a religious mendicant.

सुख sukh (sanskrit)

Happiness, pleasure, comfort, felicity, contentment.

विष्टा viṣhṭā (sanskrit)

Ordure, fæces, excrement.

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