Avyakt murli for Monday 26 May 1969

अब ab

Now.

अच्छा achchhā

Good.
Well.
All right, well done.
So long.

अगर agar

If, if so be, in case, in the event of.

आज्ञा āgyā

Order.

ऐसा aisā

Such, of this type.

आज āj

Today.

आना ānā

To come.

अन्दर andar

In, inside, within.

अनुभव anubhav

Experience.

आप āp

You (to a superior, a stranger, his father).
(reflective pronoun) Self, himself, oneself, yourself, themselves...

आपदा āpdā

Misfortune, disaster.
Distress.

अपना apnā

Reflexive possessive pronoun and adjective : my, mine, myself, your, yours, yourself, etc.

आत्मा ātmā

The soul, the spirit, the self.

और aur

And.
Else.
Other.

अवस्था avasthā

Condition, state, age, stage, phase.

अव्यक्त avyakt

Not manifest, not apparent, imperceptible, indistinct.

बचाना bachānā

To save, to defend, to protect.
To retain (unused or unspent).
To (cause to) avoid, to (to cause to) keep away or aloof.
To cause to escape.
To spare.

बचाव bachāv

Preservation, salvation, deliverance, rescue, extrication, liberation, escape, protection, defence, refuge.
Guarding, shielding, screening, cloaking, reserve, reservation, avoidance, contrivance, evasion, pretext.

बच्चा bachchā

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

बाद bād

After, later, subsequently.

बहुत bahut

Many, much.
Very.

बैठना baiṭhnā

To sit, to squat, to occupy a seat, to settle, to board, to mount.

बनना bannā

To become, be, change, belong (with a possessive pronoun or a noun in the genitive case).

बाप bāp

Father.

बापदादा bāpdādā

Bāp and Dādā.
The Father Śhiv and the elder brother Brahmā,
The father Brahmā and the Grandfather Śhiv.

बड़ा baṛā

Big, large, great, huge, important, commodious, expansive.
Noble, reputed.
Elder, elderly, senior.
Grown up.
Rich.
adv. Very, exceedingly.

बढ़ाना baṛhānā

To increase, to multiply.
To extend, to raise.
To cause to progress, to cause to grow, to cause to prosper.
To advance.
To magnify.
To exaggerate.
To push ahead.
To extinguish (as a lamp).
To close (as a shop).

बात bāt

A matter, topic, subject, concern, fact, thing.

बताना batānā

To say, to speak, to tell, to inform, to point out, to express, to thrash, to instruct.

भान bhān

Perception, consciousness, recollection.

भरना bharnā

To fill, to refill.

भविष्य bhaviṣhya

Future; what has yet to be, what will be, the future.

भय bhay

Fear, apprehension, alarm, terror, dread.
Danger.

भी bhī

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

बोलना bōlnā

To speak, to utter, to pronounce.
To bid.

बुद्धि buddhi

The intelligent mind that thinks, observes its thoughts, sets a goal, imbibes knowledge or beliefs and judges what is right or not, what conforms to its purpose or not. This mind grows until an adult age.

चाहिए chāhiē

Is necessary, is needful, is requisite, is proper, is right.
It behoves.
Should, ought, must (be).

चाहना chāhnā

To wish, to want, to like, to love, to be fond of, to crave for, to desire, to require.

चलन chalan

Vogue.
Usage, custom.
Conduct.

चलना chalnā

Continue.

chart

Chart.
(Bābā) Questionnaire to assess purūṣhārth (spiritual effort).
(Bābā) The journal of remembrance where one counts the times of remembrance.

चित्र chitra

Picture, painting, illustration, figure, photo.

class

Class.

control

Control.

देखना dēkhnā

To see, to look, to view, to perceive, to observe.
To consider.
To experience.

देना dēnā

To give.

दिल dil

Heart, courage, spirit, will.

दूसरा dūsrā

Second.
Other, another.
Next.

द्वारा dvārā

By, through, through the medium of, through the agency of, by means of, with.

एक ēk

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).

fail

Fail.

फ़र्क fark

Difference, distinction, distance.

final

Final.

गुण guṇ

Merit, virtue, great quality, excellence.
Constitutive quality, property, attribute.
One of the 3 qualities: sattva (purity, truth), rajas (strength, desire), and tamas (ignorance, inertia).

गुरू gurū

A teacher, mentor, preceptor, spiritual guide.
Jupiter, the Preceptor of the gods.
(Bābā) A spiritual guide to achieve liberation.

ही hī

Emphatic particle with a sense of exclusion : only.

होना hōnā

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

इच्छा ichchhā

Wish, desire, will.

in

In.

इसलिए isliē

On this account, for this reason, hence, therefore.

ईश्वरीय īśhvarīy

Pertaining to deity, divine, godlike.
(Bābā) Of Īśvar, of God.

जब jab

(Relative pronoun) When.

जैसा jaisā

Similar to, like, resembling, as, such as.

जाना jānā

To go, to depart, to lose, to flow.

जितना jitnā

As much as, as many, how much, however much.

जो jō

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.

ज्यादा jyādā

More, -er (also used in comparatives and superlatives).
Additional; superfluous, redundant; too much, excessive.
Superfluously; excessively, &c.
Many, much, plenty.

K

The letter K of our alphabet (used as an initial in acronyms).

का kā

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)

कभी kabhī

Sometime, ever.

कहाँ तक kahā̃ tak

(Interrogative pronominal adverb) How far, how long, to what degree.

कहना kahnā

Say.

कैसा kaisā

(interrogative adjective and adverb of manner) What-like, what sort of, what kind or manner of, in what manner, how, by what means.

कम kam

Less (also used in comparisons).
Little, few, scanty, short, small, deficient.
Rarely, seldom.

कारण kāraṇ

Reason, cause.
Agency, instrument.
For the reason, because (of, -ke), on account (of), for the sake (of), &c.

कर्म karm

Action (with its fruit, and implications of merit); an act, deed.
(moral) duty or obligation.
A religious observance, action or rite (as sacrifice, ablution, funeral obsequies).
Fate (as the consequence of previous acts); fortune, lot.
Result, effect.

करना karnā

To do.
Also used after a transitive English verb to conjugate.

कौन kaun

interrogative pronoun. Who

कौन सा kaun sā

Interrogative adjective and pronoun : which.

के बाद kē bād

After.

के लिए kē liē

For, for the sake of.

key

Key.

कि ki

That (to report indirect speech, example he says that).

कितना kitnā

(interrogative) How much, how many.
(exclamative) So, so much, so many.

को kō

को is used for denoting:

  • A Person who 'does' something involuntarily (such as—like, dislike, remember, be injured, be offended, suffer, feel, enjoy, receive, happen, to have, to meet, to know, to see or to hear, or to do something under compulsion, requirement, necessity, obligation, etc.).
  • An Animate Object, provided it denotes a particular being.
  • The object of a Verb in the Neutral Construction.
  • Every Secondary Object (which is usually animate).
  • The Object of a Verb requiring a predicative word (referring to the object).
  • Nouns denoting time when used adverbially.
    (A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)

कोई kōī

Some, any, someone, anyone.

कोशिश kōśhiśh

Effort, endeavour.

कुछ kuchh

Something; anything.
A little, some.
fig. sthg. particular.
Some; any.
A few.
Somewhat, a little, at all.

कुछ भी kuchh bhī

Anything, whatsoever, anything at all.

कुमारी kumārī

Virgin, maiden, unmarried, damsel, young girl.
Daughter.

क्या kyā

Interrogative pronoun What? for an open question.
Interrogative adjective What?, Which? (if followed by a name).
Interrogative pronoun for a closed question (yes/no type).

क्यों kyō̃

Why.

क्योंकि kyōṅki

Because, since.

लगन lagan

Devotion, perseverence, inclination, attachment.
An auspicious moment (for performing a ceremony).

लगाना lagānā

To engage, to employ.
To attach, to join, to connect.
To plant.
To apply.
To affix.
To make someone hang around.
To levy.
To touch.
To invest.
To paste, to stick.
To set, to fix.
To shut, to close.
To keep.
To backbite.
To inflame.
To add.

लक्ष्य lakṣhya

The aim, object, objective, target, goal.
Indicated, implied.

लटकना laṭaknā

To hang, to depend.
To hang loosely, to dangle, to swing.
To be suspended, to be swung.
To be kept waiting or in suspense.
To be put off, be postponed.

लेकिन lēkin

But, but still, on the other hand, however, notwithstanding, nevertheless, yet.

लेना lēnā

To take.

लिए liē

For, with a view to, for the sake of, on account of.
Taking, carrying, bearing.

लिखना likhnā

To write, to enter, register, record, inscribe, note, compose (a work), enter (in a book).

माँ mā̃

Mother.

मधुबन madhuban

(Hinduism) 'The forest of the demon Madhu,' near the Yamuna river (where Śhatru-ghna, after killing Lavaṇa, son of Madhu, founded the city of Madhurā or Mathurā, the city where Kr̥iṣhṇa was born, where God was incarnated).
(Bābā) Place where the seat of the Brahma Kumaris is located where the Supreme Being has descended on numerous occasions (in the body of Brahmā, then of Dadi Gulzar).

मग्न magna

Absorbed, engrossed, engaged, busy, immersed, drowned.
Glad, happy, delighted.

महावाक्य mahāvākya

Great utterance, great sentence. A sentence impregnated with an expression of essential truth.
(Hinduism) Tat Tvam Asi "that you are", Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi "I am Brahman", Prajñānaṁ Brahma "Prajñāna is Brahman", Ayam Ātmā Brahma "This Self (Atman) is Brahman". These four mahāvākyas are erroneous or misinterpreted confusing the soul, the Supreme Soul and Brahman (Brahm, the element that occupies the space of the incorporeal world of souls) and thus making God omnipresent.
(Bābā) Every verse or sentence of the murlī uttered by Bābā.

मैं maĩ

I. (personal pronoun)

majority

Majority.

मालूम mālūm

Known.
Evident, apparent.

मन्सा mansā

Mental, born of the mind.
Mentally, through the mind.

माया māyā

The Illusion of the world which makes us believe false things and distances us from the Truth taught by God. The world, nature, the universe is not in itself an illusion. It is an eternal reality as is the soul and the Supreme Soul.

में mē̃

में is used for denoting :

  • Location or presence (of something) in or within something.
  • Duration.
  • Price.
  • Comparison with reference to more than two, or difference.
    (A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)

merciful

Merciful.

मिलाना milānā

To unite.
To compare.
To recoṉcile.
To mix, to mingle, to blend.
To join, to connect.
To harmonize, to tune.
To cause to meet, to bring together.

मिलना milnā

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.

मुख mukh

The mouth, beak, snout, muzzle.
Face, countenance.
Front, fore-part.
Opening, aperture, entrance, exit.
Commencement.

मुख्य mukhya

Principal, chief, main, salient, staple, leading, capital, cardinal, pre-eminent, predominant.

न na

Not (subjunctive or imperative).
Na .. na, Neither .. nor.
Repetitive Compounds of indefinite Pronouns, and of Adverbs formed from them are made by placing the Negative particle between the two words. These Compounds have a pronounced indefinite force. (A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi - Appendice III 5-j)

ना nā

Emphatic particle at the end of the sentence: no?, isn't it?
No.

नहीं nahī̃

No.
Not.

नयन, नैन nayan, nain

Eye.

ने nē

A postposition denoting the subject (ergative case that is to say with a past participle).

निकलना nikalnā

To come out, to get out, to emerge, to rise, to ooze out, to proceed, to emanate, to appear, to be extracted, to be deduced, to be solved, to issue or be issued, to be published, to slink away.

निराकार nirākār

Incorporeal.
An epithet of God.
(Hinduism) without form, permeating everything (which makes God omnipresent).
(Bābā) Incorporeal, without physical or subtle body. God is incorporeal but has a form, the form of a point. Likewise the souls in the incorporeal world are incorporeal and have the form of a point.

निशानी niśhānī

A memento, keepsake, token.
Mark, mark of identification, sign, trace.

निश्चय niśhchay

Confidence, faith, certainty.

निश्चय करना niśhchay karnā

'to do faith'. To have faith, to have conviction. Faith can be obtained by studying or simply by accepting what the Father teaches us.

नूर nūr

Light, ray of light, brilliance, lustre, refulgence, splendour, illumination.

ओम् ōm

(Hinduism) Sacred syllable symbolising God Almighty.
Sacred syllable symbolising the almighty soul in general. (Hindus confuse the soul and the Supreme Soul)
I am.
Me the soul.

ओम् शान्ति ōm śhānti

(Hinduism) Om! Peace! Peace! Peace! (Shanti Mantra or hindu prayer for peace in the Upanishads)
Me the soul ! Peace !
I am Peace !
Hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening (greeting between bk)

पहले pahlē

First, first of all, in the beginning, in olden times, originally, before, beforehand.

paper

Paper.
(Bābā) Test in life (test given by Drama allowing us to check our level, to see if we have studied well and assimilated what God teaches us)

पर par

Opposite, inimical, other, alien, higher.

पर par

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)

पढ़ाई paṛhāī

Study, education, learning.

पढ़ाना paṛhānā

To teach, to instruct, to educate.

परीक्षा parīkṣhā

Investigation, examination, experiment, test, trial, proof.
Discrimination, judgment, penetration; trial by ordeal of various kinds.

परिस्थिति paristhiti

Circumstance(s).
(Bābā) External situation, external condition.

पड़ना paṛnā

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').

pass

To pass.

percentage

Percentage.

फरमान pharmān

A royal edict, royal command, royal decree.

फिक्र phikr

Worry, anxiety, care, concern.

फिर भी phir bhī

Notwithstanding, even then, in spite of that.

फिरना phirnā

To turn.
To wander, to ramble, to walk about, to go round.

प्रकार prakār

Manner, way.

प्रति prati

Towards.

पूछना pūchhnā

To enquire, to ask, to investigate, to interrogate, to question.

पूरा pūrā

Complete, all, whole, entire, full, gross, total, thorough, adequate.
Sufficiency, adequacy.

पूरी pūrī

A thin cake of meal fried in ghī or oil.

पुरुषार्थ puruṣhārth

Human effort or exertion; valour; industry.
An object of human pursuit.
(Hinduism) The four basic aims of human existence (viz. dharm discharge of duty; arth acquirement of wealth; kām gratification of desire; mokṣha final emancipation).
(Bābā) The effort made by the soul to attain perfection.
(Bābā) Spiritual effort. The effort made for the sake (arth) of development of the soul (puruṣh). This effort includes the steps we take for attaining the perfect state of our original and eternal self.

रहम rahm

Pity, mercy, compassion.

रहना rahnā

To remain, to stay.

रखना rakhnā

To put, to place, to keep, to possess, to have, to employ, to appoint.

respond

To respond.
Response.

result

Result.

रीति rīti

Method, manner, mode.
Custom, way, practice, vogue.
Tradition.
Style.

रूप rūp

Rūp, the one who smiles while making the flowers of virtues emerge from his lips. He is the embodiment of Yoga.
Form, shape, appearance, aspect, image, beauty, good looks, mould, type.

सब sab

All, entire, whole, total.
Every.
All people, everybody, the whole.

सब कुछ sab kuchh

Everything, all.

सहज sahaj

Easy, simple.
Spontaneous, straightforward, ingenuous.
Innate, natural, congenital.

सहन sahan

Patient endurance, forbearance, tolerance.

सहित sahit

With, together with, along with, accompanied by.

साकार, साकारी sākār, sākārī

Formal, having a form.
Concrete, real, visible.
Incarnate.
(Bābā) Corporeal, which has a physical, material form.

सकना saknā

To can, to be able to.

साक्षात्कार sākṣhātkār

Interview.
Perception or apprehension of a god in a vision.
(Bābā) Divine vision. God grants these visions to devotees of all religions in the copper and iron ages and also to the Brahma kumaris who have this role (trance messenger) or at the beginning and end of this age (of meeting with God).

शक्ति śhakti

Power, strength, potency, energy.
Name of the goddess personifying divine power.
The energy or active power of a deity personified as his wife (as Gaurī of Śhiv, Lakṣhmī of viṣhṇu, &c.)
(Brahma kumaris) Sister, mother.
Śhiv Śhakti, the powers of Śhiv. In Bhakti they are portrayed as goddesses sitting on a lion, swan, lotus etc. They are symbolic of the victory over vices (demons). As power of Śhiv, brothers are Śhiv Śhakti too.

समझना samajhnā

To understand.

समाना samānā

To be contained, to enter, to fit, to permeate.

समय samay

Time.
Period.
Times, timings.
Occasion.
Leisure.
A convention.

सम्पूर्ण sampūrṇ

Whole, entire, complete, perfect.

संगठन saṅgaṭhan

(The act or process of) organization (or an organised body or system or society); union, unity; consolidation.
(Bābā) Group, coming together, gathering.

संगदोष saṅgdōṣh

A blemish, vice, ill-habit or ill-quality contracted through keeping company with.
(Bābā) Influence of bad company.

संकल्प saṅkalp

Determination, resolve, resolution, will.
Mind, thought, idea.
(Bābā) Thought, idea.
(Bābā) Right idea, pure thought (śuddha khyāl)

संशय sanśhay

Suspicion, doubt, uncertainty.

संस्कार saṅskār

Perfecting, finishing; refining; adorning.
An inborn power or faculty; instinct.
Influence, impress (of nurture).
A concept, idea.
(Hinduism) Any of various essential sanctifying or purificatory rites (as the first taking of solid food, investiture with the sacred thread, marriage and funeral rites).
(Bābā) Impression or imprint of the state of mind. There are the innate saṅskār, inherent to the soul and the acquired saṅskār. When the soul does an action, an acquired saṅskār is formed. This saṅskār then incites us to the same action (with the same state of mind) in similar circumstances for example. Character traits are saṅskār. These saṅskār are part of the soul and not the body as many believe. They therefore accumulate over several lives.

शान्ति śhānti

Peace, calmness, quiet, tranquillity, quietude, silence.

सफलता saphaltā

Success, achievement.

शरीर śharīr

Body.

सतगुरू satgurū

The good spiritual guide, the true spiritual guide, God.

साथ sāth

With, together, along with.
Company, association.

से sē

से is used for denoting :

  • The Subject of a Verb in the passive and impersonal voices.
  • The indirect Objects (which are usually persons) of the Verbs meaning 'to tell, say, ask, ask for, beg, demand, claim, request’.
  • Means, instrument or agency.
  • Manner.
  • Cause, reason, origin.
  • Association, antagonism.
  • Separation or keeping away from.
  • Starting point (place or time).
  • Duration (with reference to a continuous 'action' of present or past).
  • Difference and comparison between two persons or things.
    (A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)

service

Service.

स्नेह snēh

Love, affection.
Oil, oily substance.

स्नेही snēhī

A lover.
Loving, affectionate.

स्पष्ट spaṣhṭ

Distinct, clear, apparent, evident, obvious, manifest, intelligible, easy, plain.

श्रीमत śhrīmat

The divine (śrī) doctrine containing the directions or opinions of God : the murlī.

stage

Stage.
(Bābā) State, condition.

स्थिति sthiti

Position, situation, state, condition, stage, phase.

सुनाना sunānā

To cause to hear, to relate, to read out, to recite, to pronounce.

स्वरूप svarūp

Shape, form.
Appearance.
Character, nature.
(Hinduism) Form assumed by a deity, or by the ultimate being; image, idol.
Of the same nature or character; similar.
(suffix) Having the nature or character (of), by way of, as, amounting to.
(Bābā) Form assumed by the soul; image.

तक tak

To, upto, till, until, by.

तन tan

Body.

teacher

Teacher.

तीनों tīnō̃

The three, all three.

तो tō

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

total

Total.

training

Training.

उसका uskā

Genitive case of vah : of him, of her, of that, his, her.

वा vā

Or.

वाचा vāchā

Through speech.

वह vah

Third person personal pronoun: he, she, it (and also they).
Distant demonstrative pronoun and adjective: that (and also those).

वहां vahā̃

There.

वही vahī

(emphatic form of vah) That very, that very one.

वाला vālā

A suffix denoting an agent, doer, owner, possessor, keeper or inhabitant : the one of, the one with, the one who.

वाणी vāṇī

Speech, voice.
Saraswati : the goddess of speech.

विघ्न vighna

Interruption, interference, meddling, obstacle, disturbance.

विनाश vināśh

Utter destruction, disappearance, destruction, utter loss, ruin, death, annihilation.
(in particular) The destruction of the old world.

विशेष viśhēṣh

Special, specific, particular, distinctive, characteristic, typical.

या yā

Or, either.

यह yah

3rd person personal pronoun, demonstrative pronoun or determiner in a close context : he, she, this (also they, these).

यहाँ yahā̃

Here, hither, in/at this place.

यही yahī

Emphatic form of yah: this very.

यथाशक्ति yathāśhakti

According to power or ability or means; to the best of (one's) ability, as far as possible.