Avyakt murli for Thursday 5 December 1974

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.

आधा ādhā

Half.

आधार ādhār

Base, basis, foundation.
(sindhi) A support, prop, dependence.
(Bābā) Support.

अधिकारी adhikārī

Governor, ruler, minister, functionary, official, officer, (and generally) one invested with power or authority.
Proprietor, owner, master, heir.
Agent, deputy; one who possesses a right, title, or privilege.

अधीन adhīn

Dependent.
Subordinate, subject to the authority of.
Under.

आदि ādi

Etcetera.
Beginning.
Early, initial, primordial.

अगर agar

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

ऐसा aisā

Such, of this type.

आकर्षण ākarṣhaṇ

Attraction, charm, allurement.

आकर्षित ākarṣhit

Attracted, charmed, allured.

आना ānā

To come.

अन्त ant

End.

अनुभव anubhav

Experience.

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.).

attention

Attention.

और aur

And.
Else.
Other.

अव्यक्त avyakt

Not manifest, not apparent, imperceptible, indistinct.

बदलना badalnā

To change, to alter, to replace.
To convert, to be converted.
To go back (on one's word).

बाहर bāhar

Out, outside, exterior, beyond, away.
A foreign land.

बैठना baiṭhnā

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

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 समान bāp samān

Similar, identical, equal to the Father.

बापदादा bāpdādā

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

बार bār

Time, occasion.

भाव bhāv

Emotion, sentiment feeling.
Idea.
Rate, price(s), quotation.
Existence, existing state, being.
Sense, purport.
Gist.
Nature, temperament, disposition.

भावना bhāvnā

Sentiment, feeling, emotion.

भी bhī

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

बीच bīch

Middle, centre.

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.

चार chār

Four.

चढ़ना chaṛhnā

To go up, to ascend, to climb, to rise, to increase.

change

Change.

चित्र chitra

Picture, painting, illustration, figure, photo.

control

Control.

देह dēh

Body.

देना dēnā

To give.

देश dēśh

Country, land, native home, region, space.

दिलाना dilānā

To cause to be given, to cause to be handed over.

दिन din

A day (comprised of twenty-four hours from sunrise to sunrise).
A day (extending from sunrise to sunset), daytime.
Time(s).

दुनिया duniyā

World.
The present world, the present life or state of existence.
The people of this world, people.
Worldly enjoyments or blessings, worldly goods, the good things of this life, wealth, riches.

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).

first

First.

floor

Floor.
(Bābā) There are 3 floors, each floor corresponds to a world:

  1. the first floor the incorporeal world of souls
  2. the second floor the subtle region
  3. the third floor the physical world, the universe in which we currently live.

गंवाना ganvānā

To lose, to waste, to squander.

घण्टा ghaṇṭā

Bell, gong, clock, hour.

globe

Globe.

ground floor

Ground floor.

हद had

Boundary.
Limit, bounds, extent.
Bar, obstruction.

हर एक har ēk

Each, every.
Each one, everybody.

हाथ hāth

The hand, the wrist, the pulse.
Hand, member (of a work team).
A hand (at cards).
Hand, contribution (in some activity).
Handle, arm (of a chair).

ही hī

Emphatic particle with a sense of exclusion : only.

होना hōnā

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

in

In.

जब jab

(Relative pronoun) When.

जब तक jab tak

As long as.
(with negation) until.

जहाँ jahā̃

Where, wherever.

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.

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)

कहना kahnā

Say.

कम kam

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

कम होना kam hōnā

To lessen, diminish, decrease, to abate.
To fail, come short.
To fall, sink.

कामना kāmnā

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

काफी kāphī

Enough, sufficient, adequate.

कारण kāraṇ

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

करना karnā

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

कौन kaun

interrogative pronoun. Who

के लिए kē liē

For, for the sake of.

के नीचे kē nīchē

Under, below, at the bottom of.

के ऊपर kē ūpar

On, upon.
Above.

key

Key.

खड़ा khaṛā

Standing, erect, upright, straight, vertical, steep, stationary.

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.

कोई भी kōī bhī

Anyone, someone, any.

कृष्ण kr̥iṣhṇa

Black, dark.
Lord Kr̥iṣhṇa.

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.

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.

lift

Lift.
(Bābā) A raising of the spirits, the effect of making happier.

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)

lucky

Lucky.

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.

मालिकपन mālikpan

The condition of being master, lord, owner.

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)

मेहनत mēhnat

Labour, hard work, toil.
Industry, application.
Exercise.

मिलन milan

Meeting, union, contact.

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.

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.

ने nē

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

निभाना nibhānā

To carry on.
To pull on, to accommodate.
To fulfil.
To accomplish.
To perform.
To maintain.

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.

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.

पहुंचना pahuñchnā

To reach, to arrive.

पाण्डव pāṇḍav

(Hinduism) One of the five valiant sons of King Pāṇḍu, and the heroes of the Mahābhārat (Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva).
(Bābā) Brother.
(Bābā) Spiritual guide showing all the souls the true path.
(Bābā) The Pandavas, those who have love for God in their intellect; Brahmins of the Confluence age.

पांव pāṅw

Foot, leg.

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)

परिवर्तन parivartan

Change, alteration, variation.
Exchange (of objects, goods); conversion (of funds, currency).
Transformation.

percentage

Percentage.

plan

Plan.

power

Power.

powerful

Powerful.

practical

Practical.

प्रदर्शनी pradarśhanī

Exhibition.

प्राप्त prāpt

Got, obtained; procured, acquired.

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).

प्रत्यक्ष pratyakṣh

Visible, perceptible, clear, evident, vivid, real, actual, express, explicit.
Direct, immediate; personal (as acquaintance).
Visible reality, actuality.

प्रिय priy

Beloved, dear, valued, prized, liked, desired; pleasing, amiable, agreeable, kind.
A beloved object, lover, husband.

पुराना purānā

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

प्यार pyār

Love, affection, amour, amorous relationship.

रहना rahnā

To remain, to stay.

रखना rakhnā

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

रात-दिन rāt-din

Night and day.
Continually.

रावण rāvaṇ

The king of ancient Ceylon (Laṅkā) who kidnapped Rām's queen consort Sītā and later fought him and was killed, villain of the great epic Rāmāyaṇ.
A demonic person.
(Bābā) Ravan, a ten-headed demon-king, the ruler of Lanka. Symbolic of five vices in males and five vices in females.

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.

सबसे sabsē

(superlative) Of all, the most.

सदा sadā

Always, perpetually, continually, ever.

सकना saknā

To can, to be able to.

साक्षी sākṣhī

A witness, deponent.
Evidence, testimony.
(Bābā) A spectator, an observer.

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.

समान samān

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

समर्थ samarth

Capable, competent.
Powerful.

समय samay

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

समीप samīp

Near (in place or time), beside, proximate, close by, at hand.

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.

सार sār

Essence, substance, best or essential part, heart, core, marrow.
Sap.
Gist, sense; content.
Essential worth or value.

सारा sārā

All, the whole, whole, entire, complete, universal.

सर्व sarv

All ; whole, entire, complete.

science

Science.

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)

second

Second.

सेना sēnā

Army, the military.

set

Set

silence

Silence.

सितारा sitārā

A star.
Fortune, fate, destiny.

स्मृति smr̥iti

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

सोचना sōchnā

To think, to reflect, to ponder over, to consider.

सृष्टि sr̥iṣhṭi

Creation.
The world.

stage

Stage.
(Bābā) State, condition.

स्थान sthān

Place, spot, site.

स्थित sthit

Situated, located, placed.
Circumstanced.

स्थिति sthiti

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

switch

Switch.

switch on

To switch on. To turn a switch to the "on" position in order to start or enable a device.

तब tab

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

तक tak

To, upto, till, until, by.

तकदीर takdīr

Fate, destiny.

तरफ taraph

Side, direction.
Towards.

तत्व tatva

Real state or nature; essence.
(Hinduism) The supreme spirit.
One of the five traditionally distinguished elementary substances (ether, air, fire, water, earth).
(chemistry) An element.
A basic principle; an axiom.
An element, aspect or factor (in a system).
(Vedanta philosophy) The real nature of the human soul (as identical with the all-pervading supreme spirit (false concept)).

third

Third.

तो tō

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

तुम tum

You (between equals).

ऊपर ūpar

On, upon, above, upward, over.

उपराम uprām

Detached, disinterested.
Close to Rām, close to God.

उसका uskā

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

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.

वस्तु vastu

Article, thing, object, substance, material, content.
Action or plot of a drama.

वायदा vāydā

Promise, commitment.

विजय vijay

Conquest, victory, triumph.

विजयी vijayī

Conquering, victorious, triumphant.
A conqueror.

व्यर्थ vyarth

Useless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, unprofitable.

या yā

Or, either.

याद yād

Remembrance, recollection, memory.

यह yah

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