दृष्टि — dṛṣṭi: vision, gaze and the practice of drishti
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The definitions and explanations are newly written editorial material, translated from the French draft. Examples preserve Hindi sentences and their French and English translations actually published in the cited sources.
The word and its ordinary meaning
दृष्टि — dṛṣṭi, shown as dr̥iṣhṭi in the site’s transliteration, is a feminine Hindi noun of Sanskrit origin. Hindwi gives the faculty of seeing and the gaze. IIT Bombay’s Hindi Shabdamitra also distinguishes a way of considering an object or subject. The extension from physical sight to a point of view is therefore already part of ordinary usage, rather than exclusively BK terminology.
The Murli dictionary entry includes drishti and regard. The attestations help establish when the word concerns a way of perceiving and when it names a spiritual practice.
Published translations of the word
French: regard, vision, drishti. English: vision, drishti. The passage of 29 January 2024 attests regard in the fraternal expression; 31 January 2025 attests vision; 3 October 2020 and 24 October 2021 retain drishti. The latter is a borrowing from Hindi rather than an explanatory translation.
On 5 September 2024, French renders the construction with considèrent, while English retains vision. A noun equivalent must therefore be distinguished from the translation of a whole sentence. Gaze and outlook, proposed below, are not claimed as published equivalents found in the selected examples.
Proposed translations
Vision / regard is a suitable main choice, adapted to each language and sentence. Outlook / manière de voir explains the inner perspective. Gaze suits a look directed towards someone. Drishti preserves the name of the practice when the context presents a gaze given or received; it can initially be explained as a spiritual gaze.
Vision does not automatically mean an apparition or supernatural sight. Conversely, gaze must not be reduced to fixed eye contact: several passages concern how one regards a soul. दिव्य दृष्टि requires its own contextual reading rather than an assumption based solely on the adjective divine.
Two connected BK uses
One use is a way of seeing and regarding others, qualified by brotherhood and purity. Another is a gaze given or received in a spiritual interaction. They connect through the quality of awareness, but are not interchangeable in every sentence.
1. A way of regarding a person
The term here denotes the relational category through which one person regards others: disciples or followers. The passage contrasts this with the Father’s vision of His children. This criticism belongs to the murli’s argument rather than a general account of all gurus.
हिंदी — मूल / Hindi — original : इन गुरू लोगों की दृष्टि रहती है कि यह हमारे शिष्य हैं अथवा फालोअर्स वा जिज्ञासू हैं .
Français — publié : Ces gourous considèrent les autres comme leurs disciples ou adeptes.
English — published: Those gurus’ vision is that they are their followers or students.
Murli · daily · 2024-09-05 · hi11 · FR · EN
2. Fraternal vision and soul consciousness
Fraternal vision rests on soul identity: the other person is regarded as a brother. This concerns how one perceives a person, not only the physical direction of the eyes. The published translation makes the associated thought explicit.
हिंदी — मूल / Hindi — original : तुमको भी बाप समझाते हैं हमेशा भाई की दृष्टि रखो .
Français — publié : Il vous explique aussi: ayez toujours un regard fraternel; "Je parle à mon frère".
English — published: The Father also explains to you: Always have the vision of brotherhood: I am speaking to my brother.
Murli · daily · 2024-01-29 · hi163 · FR · EN
3. The ethical quality of vision
The qualifier विकारी gives vision an ethical value in this BK context, connected with desire and bodily consciousness. Bad vision and vicious vision are the published formulations. Purity of vision is an application of the first sense rather than a different faculty.
हिंदी — मूल / Hindi — original : तुम पुण्य आत्मा बनने वाले बच्चे किसी पर भी बुरी दृष्टि ( विकारी दृष्टि ) नहीं रख सकते .
Français — publié : Les enfants qui deviennent charitables ne doivent jamais avoir de mauvaise vision (vicieuse) pour qui que ce soit.
English — published: You children who are becoming charitable souls must never look with bad (vicious) vision at anyone.
Murli · daily · 2025-01-31 · hi5 · FR · EN
4. Giving drishti
The construction दृष्टि देना occurs explicitly. The surrounding teaching encourages a change of vision rather than allowing it to become vicious. The published version specifies worldly brahmins; this addition, also present in French, is preserved without adding it to the Hindi original.
हिंदी — मूल / Hindi — original : ब्राह्मणों को तुम अच्छी रीति दृष्टि दे सकते हो .
Français — publié : Vous pouvez donner un très beau drishti aux brahmanes du monde.
English — published: You can give very good drishti to the worldly brahmins.
Murli · daily · 2020-10-03 · hi92 · FR · EN
5. Receiving an experience through drishti
The passage describes an experience of receiving power through drishti. Nearby sentences hi114–hi117 also discuss giving an experience and connect this gaze with peace and love. These are descriptions and claims within BK teaching, rather than an experimental measurement of energy transfer.
हिंदी — मूल / Hindi — original : दृष्टि द्वारा शक्ति कैच कर सकते हो ?
Français — publié : Etes-vous capables de prendre du pouvoir par le biais du drishti?
English — published: Are you able to catch power through drishti?
Murli · daily · 2021-10-24 · hi113 · FR · EN
Nuances and connection with वृत्ति
On 24 October 2021, hi109–hi141, experience through words is distinguished from experience through drishti, and giving and receiving are encouraged as a practice. This documents more than one isolated occurrence. 3 October 2020, hi91–hi96 independently attests giving drishti in a context of transforming vision.
The results often connect दृष्टि and वृत्ति. The latter denotes inner attitude, while the former denotes a way of seeing or the gaze through which that orientation appears. This is a useful reading distinction, not an absolute separation: the terms sometimes overlap when describing the same relationship. Pure, fraternal or vicious vision describes how another person is regarded, rather than measuring visual acuity.
Published translations are preserved even when a French phrase such as vision vicieuse seems less natural than regard empreint de désir. The latter would be a proposed interpretation to choose contextually, not a published quotation.
Sources and scope
Two relevance-ranked pages of the daily corpus were consulted, containing 40 excerpts. Five source pages were examined in French and English: 24 October 2021, 29 January 2024, 5 September 2024, 31 January 2025 and 3 October 2020. Reprints were not counted as independent evidence. Daily includes reprinted BapDada teachings; the separate avyakt and mamma corpora were not surveyed. Ranking measures lexical relevance rather than doctrinal importance. This selection is not an exhaustive inventory of the word or all expressions containing दृष्टि.