Avyakt murli for Saturday 5 December 1970

अब ab

Now.

अभ्यासी abhyāsī

Studious, practising, repeating, exercising, carrying on practice, carrying on training.
Well-up, trained.

अच्छा achchhā

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

आगे āgē

Ahead, in front of, before; in future.

ऐसा aisā

Such, of this type.

आज āj

Today.

अलौकिक alaukik

Unearthly, heavenly, celestial, phenomenal, transcendental, supernatural.
Uncommon, strange, rare, unusual, exceptional, unordinary, extraordinary.

आना ānā

To come.

आप āp

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

अपना apnā

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

अपनाना apnānā

To (treat as one's) own.
To adopt.
To appropriate.

अर्थात् arthāt

That is, that is to say, namely (viz.).

अष्ट aṣhṭ

Eight, 8.

आत्मा ātmā

The soul, the spirit, the self.

और aur

And.
Else.
Other.

और कोई aur kōī

Someone else, anyone else.

आवाज़ āvāz

Sound, noise.
Voice, tone.
Echo.
Shout, call, cry.
Report, fame.

अव्यक्त avyakt

Not manifest, not apparent, imperceptible, indistinct.

बहुत bahut

Many, much.
Very.

बजाए bajāē

In place.

बल bal

Strength, power, force.
Army.
Potency, vigour, vitality.
Emphasis, stress.

बलि चढ़ना bali chaṛhnā

To be sacrificed, to sacrifice oneself.

बनाना banānā

To make, to construct, to compose, to build, to prepare, to make ready, to form.
To pull somebody's leg, to patch up, to develop a good equation with.
To befool.

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.

बात bāt

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

भट्ठी bhaṭṭhī

Fire-place, grate, stove, oven, forge, furnace, kiln, alembic, still, washerman's boiler or copper, distillery.
(Bābā) Collective intensive meditation for a few hours (furnace).

भी bhī

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

बोलना bōlnā

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

चाहे chāhē

Either, or (usually repeated).
चाहे ... चाहे, either ... or; whether ... or.

चाहना chāhnā

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

चलना chalnā

Continue.

certificate

A certificate.

challenge

Challenge.

check

Check.

checking

Checking.

छिपाना chhipānā

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

छिपना chhipnā

To hide, to lurk.
To set.
To be covered.

छोड़ना chhōṛnā

To leave.
To abandon.
To release.

देखना dēkhnā

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

देना dēnā

To give.

धारण dhāraṇ

Holding, bearing, carrying, keeping, wearing.
Upholding, maintaining, sustaining, preserving.
Possessing, having, assuming.
Knowing, acquiring.
Undertaking.

धारण करना dhāraṇ karnā

To bear.
To possess.
To wear.
To assume.
To seize, retain.
To draw, to absorb, &c.

दिल dil

Heart, courage, spirit, will.

doctor

Doctor.

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.

group

Group.

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).

गुणमूर्त guṇmūrt

Image of virtue.

हां hā̃

Yes, yea.

hall

Hall.

हम ham

We.
(rustic form) I.

हाथ उठाना hāth uṭhānā

To raise your hand.

ही hī

Emphatic particle with a sense of exclusion : only.

होना hōnā

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

होशियार hōśhiyār

Clever, wise, intelligent, careful.

इच्छा मात्रम् अविद्या ichchhā mātram avidyā

To become complete ignorant about a desire. Desires are like mirages. If you run behind a mirage to get water, as mirage is an illusive appearance of water, you can never get the water. Similar is the case with desires. There is no end to the desires.Why to run behind the mirages like desires and why to get disappointment of not obtaining them! So, Baba tells a very beautiful technique of stabilising the mind in such a stage where one becomes complete ignorant about desires. When the mind is reached to such a high stage, then automatically all the desires will get fulfilled. That means complete contentment will be achieved.

इसलिए isliē

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

इतना itnā

As much as this, this much; so much, so many.

जब jab

(Relative pronoun) When.

जैसा jaisā

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

जाना jānā

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

जानना jānnā

To know, to become aware of, to perceive.

जी jī

Mind, heart.
A form of address, a term of endearment or respect: Sir, Master, Madam.
Yes Sir, yes Madam, yes Master, yes, very good.

जीना jīnā

To live, to be alive.

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.

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 kahā̃

Interrogative pronominal adverb : Where ?

कहना kahnā

Say.

कामना kāmnā

Wish, desire, inclination.
Lust.
(Bābā) Wish, desire.

करना karnā

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

कर्तव्य kartavya

Duty.
To be done, to be accomplished.

कौन kaun

interrogative pronoun. Who

के आगे kē āgē

In front of, ahead of, before.

के बाद kē bād

After.

के लिए kē liē

For, for the sake of.

के साथ kē sāth

With, along with, in the company of, in company with, in connection with.
We will replace kē with a possessive pronoun mērē (mine), tērē (yours), etc. to say "with me", "with you".

के ऊपर kē ūpar

On, upon.
Above.

key

Key.

खबरदार khabardār

Cautious, watchful.

खूब khūb

Very much, in plenty, in abundance.
Good, beautiful.
Very.
Excellent! very good !

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.

कुछ kuchh

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

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).

क्योंकि kyōṅki

Because, since.

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.

ले जाना lē jānā

'to take and go'.
To go away with, to run away with.
To take away, to carry, to convey, to export, to carry off, to carry away, to bear off.
To refer.
To win, to conquer, to master.

लेकिन lēkin

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

लेना lēnā

To take.

लिखना likhnā

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

लोग log

A man.
People, public.
Placed after the pronoun ham (we), tum (you or you) or āp (you) grammatically plural to remove ambiguity on the number of people (at least 2 people)

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).

महाबली mahābalī

The great sacrifice, the great oblation.
(Bābā) The great offering of oneself, of one's ego, etc.

मैं maĩ

I. (personal pronoun)

माला mālā

A garland (of flowers), wreath.
Rosary, string of beads.
Series, chain, row, line.

मालूम mālūm

Known.
Evident, apparent.

मांस māns

Meat, flesh.

मरना marnā

To die, to pass away, to wither away, to become ineffective, to vanish, to disappear, to discontinue, to be absorbed, to fall for. Death, post-death rites.

मास mās

Month.

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)

मुश्किल muśhkil

Difficult, hard, intricate.
Difficulty, hardship.

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.

नारा nārā

A slogan.

ने nē

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

नेत्र nētra

The eye.

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.

निश्चय niśhchay

Confidence, faith, certainty.

निवृत्त nivr̥itt

Disencumbered, retired.
Freed, liberated.
Unoccupied.
Finished, completed, terminated.

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.

पहचान pahchān

Acquaintance, familiarity, recognition, identification.
Identity, identification mark.

पहचानना pahchānnā

To recognize, to identify. To distinguish, to discern, to discriminate.

पहले pahlē

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

पहले से pahlē sē

From the first, from the very commencement.
At first, in the first place.
Already, beforehand.

पक्का pakkā

Ripe.
Expert, confirmed.
Strong, lasting, permanent, firm.

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)

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.

pass with honour

To pass with honour.

पाठ pāṭh

Reading, study, recitation (esp. of a sacred text).
Text, version; textual reading (as in a manuscript).
Lesson, lecture.

फिर phir

Then, again, afterwards, thereafter, in future, a second time.

फिर से phir sē

Anew, afresh.

फिरना phirnā

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

practical

Practical.

प्राप्त करना prāpt karnā

To obtain, to acquire, to receive, to undergo, to endure, to submit, to incur.

प्राप्ति prāpti

Obtaining, acquisition; attainment (to a goal, a level); fulfilment (of a request).
Gain, advantage; income.
Receipt (of a letter, &c.); reception (of guests).

पुराना purānā

Old, ancient.
Worn out, old-fashioned, antiquated, obsolete, out of date.
Experienced, sage, knowing.

question

Question.

रहना rahnā

To remain, to stay.

रखना rakhnā

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

रत्न ratna

A gem, precious stone.
The most outstanding individual of a class.
The pupil of the eye.
(in comp.) Anything valuable or desirable, any precious thing, anything excellent or best of its kind (e.g. strī-ratn, 'a pearl of a woman').

result

Result.

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.

सदा sadā

Always, perpetually, continually, ever.

सहज sahaj

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

सकना saknā

To can, to be able to.

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.

समाचार samāchār

News; information.

समझना samajhnā

To understand.

समान samān

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

समाप्ति samāpti

The end, conclusion, termination.
Completion.

समय samay

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

सामना sāmnā

Confronting, encountering, meeting face to face.
Opposition, resistance.
Competition, rivalry.
Match, comparison.
Front, front part, frontage (of a house).

सम्पूर्ण sampūrṇ

Whole, entire, complete, perfect.

संकल्प saṅkalp

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

शान्ति śhānti

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

शरीर śharīr

Body.

सर्व sarv

All ; whole, entire, complete.

साथी sāthī

Companion, comrade, associate, attendant, follower; ally, accomplice, supporter.

सौगात saugāt

a present, gift.

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)

स्मृति smr̥iti

Memory, remembrance.
Books of traditional code of Hindu law.

स्पष्ट spaṣhṭ

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

स्थान sthān

Place, spot, site.

स्थिति sthiti

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

स्थूल sthūl

Bulky, fat.
Gross, coarse; undifferentiated; outward, apparent.
Crude, rough, gross.
Dense, stupid.
philos. Tangible, material (as opposed to sūkṣma, subtle).
(Bābā) Tangible, material.

सूक्ष्म sūkṣhma

Subtle.

सुनाना sunānā

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

सुनना sunnā

To hear, to listen, to pay heed.
Hearing, audition.

श्वाँस śhvāṅs

Breath, respiration.

तब tab

Then, at that time, afterwards, thereupon, therefore, hence.

तीसरा tīsrā

Third.

तो tō

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

तृप्त tr̥ipt

Satiated, satisfied, contented.

ऊपर ūpar

On, upon, above, upward, over.

वा vā

Or.

वह vah

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

वाला vālā

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

विदाई vidāī

Farewell, sending off, departure.
Present made at the time of departure.

विजय vijay

Conquest, victory, triumph.

विजयी vijayī

Conquering, victorious, triumphant.
A conqueror.

विशेष viśhēṣh

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

वृत्ति vr̥itti

Behaviour, conduct, mode of life.
Natural tendency, instinct.
Business, employment, profession.
Means of subsistence, allowance, pension.
Commentary (on a text).
Usage (of a term or expression).
(Bābā) Attitude, thought pattern, tendencies, inclinations, instincts.

याद yād

Remembrance, recollection, memory.

याद रखना yād rakhnā

'to keep the remembrance'. To bear in mind, to keep in memory, to remember.

यादगार yādgār

Anything given as a memorial.
A valuable present (to a mistress or friend).
A token, a souvenir, a keepsake.
A monument, memorial.
Anything memorable, or worthy of remembrance.

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.