Avyakt murli for Monday 30 November 1992

अब ab

Now.

अभ्यास abhyās

Practice, exercise, habituation, frequent repetition of a thing in order to fix it on the memory.

अचल achal

Immovable, immobile, stationary, motionless, still, firm.

अच्छा achchhā

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

अच्छा लगना achchhā lagnā

To be pleasing, agreeable or palatable, to please.
To appear pretty or becoming, to look well.
To become, befit, suit; to afford pleasure.
To derive pleasure or enjoyment, to enjoy, relish; to have a good effect, prove beneficial, to benefit.

accident

Accident.

आदत ādat

Habit.

add

To add.

address

Address.

आधा ādhā

Half.

आधार ādhār

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

अधिकार adhikār

Right, authority, command, possession, occupation, entitlement.

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.

आदि ādi

Etcetera.
Beginning.
Early, initial, primordial.

आदि-मध्य-अन्त ādi-madhya-ant

The beginning, the middle and the end.
From beginning to end.

aeroplane

Aeroplane, airplane.

अगर agar

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

आगे āgē

Ahead, in front of, before; in future.

आह्वान āhvān

A call, summons, invocation, citation.

आइना āinā

A looking glass, mirror.

ऐसा aisā

Such, of this type.

ऐसे नहीं aisē nahī̃

'not so', Do not believe.

आज āj

Today.

आजकल ājkal

Nowadays, these days.

अकाल akāl

Out of time, untimely, unseasonable, immortal, (a title of God).

अखुट akhuṭ

Inexhaustible.

अलग alag

Different, separate, apart, distinct.

अलौकिक alaukik

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

अलबेला albēlā

Light, frivolous, senseless, childish, silly.
Careless, indifferent.
Smart, showy, spruce, foppish.
Engaging, charming, handsome, beautiful.
(Bābā) Careless.

अल्पकाल alpkāl

Short term.

America

America.

अमृतवेला amr̥itvēlā

The time of nectar, the hour before dawn, the hour suitable for meditation or prayer.
(Sikhism) the hour before sunrise between 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
(Bābā) The time of amr̥t, the time of nectar, time of daily meditation after waking up, set from 4:00 a.m. to 4:45 a.m., when the atmosphere is very pure and Baba specially fills a soul with all powers, but perhaps at any time between 2:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.

आना ānā

To come.

अनादि anādi

Having no beginning, ever-existent, eternal.
(Bābā) Having no beginning, ever-existent, eternal (as the Drama for example).
(Bābā) Outside of time, outside of the cycle of Creation, in the incorporeal world of souls.

आनंद ānand

Bliss, happiness, joy, pleasure, delight.
(vedānta) Joy of Divine union.

and

And.

अन्दर andar

In, inside, within.

अनेक anēk

'not one'. Many, several, various, much, abundant.

अन्त ant

End.

अन्तर antar

Difference.
Distance, interval, spacing, margin.
Interior, heart.

अन्तिम antim

Last, final, ultimate, concluding, conclusive.

अनुभव anubhav

Experience.

अनुभवी anubhavī

Experienced, veteran, seasoned.

अनुभूति anubhūti

Emotional experience, inner experience, realisation.

अनुसार anusār

According to, in conformity with.

अन्य anya

Other, another, different; separate.

आप āp

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

आपेही āpēhī

Alone, by or within one's ownself; automatically.

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.

अप्राप्ति aprāpti

Non-attainment, non-acquisition.

आराम ārām

Rest, comfort, relief.

अर्थ arth

Meaning.
Import, sense.
Wealth, money.
For, for the sake of.

अर्थात् arthāt

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

अशान्ति aśhānti

Restlessness, anxiety.

आठ āṭh

Eight.

आत्मा ātmā

The soul, the spirit, the self.

और aur

And.
Else.
Other.

और कोई aur kōī

Someone else, anyone else.

authority

Authority.

अवस्था avasthā

Condition, state, age, stage, phase.

आवश्यकता āvaśhyaktā

Necessity, need, requirement.

आवाज़ āvāz

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

अविनाशी avināśhī

Indestructible, imperishable, everlasting, immortal, entire.

अव्यक्त avyakt

Not manifest, not apparent, imperceptible, indistinct.

बाबा bābā

Father.

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.

बच्चा bachchā

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

बच्ची bachchī

A girl, a female child, baby or infant.
(feminine) Inexperienced, raw, of unripe age.

बचपन bachpan

Childhood.

बाद में bād mē̃

Later, subsequently.

बदलना badalnā

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

बदलाना badlānā

To change, to modify, to transform.

बादशाह bādśhāh

Emperor, king, monarch, sovereign.

बाहर bāhar

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

बहुत bahut

Many, much.
Very.

बैलगाड़ी bailgāṛī

A bullock cart.

बैठना baiṭhnā

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

बाकी bākī

But if.., but, nevertheless.

बाकी bākī

Remaining, left over, remainder, balance, arrears, subtraction.

बाम्बे bāmbē

Bombay.

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.

बंद band

Closed, shut, locked, locked up.
Stopped, discontinued.

बन्धन bandhan

A bond, tie ;the act or process of binding/tying; tie (as of affection, duty) ; bondage; restriction; a fetter.
phil. Attachment to the world; opp. liberation [mokṣa].

बँधना bandhnā

To be tied; to be fastened; to be bound; to be restricted.

बनना bannā

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

बांटना bāṇṭnā

To divide, apportion, distribute, portion out, parcel out, divide into shares.
To dispense, dispose of, assign.
To participate, go shares in.

बाप bāp

Father.

बाप कहते हैं bāp kahtē haĩ

The Father says.

बापदादा bāpdādā

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

बार bār

Time, occasion.

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).

बढ़ना baṛhnā

To increase, to multiply, to grow, to progress, to advance.

बस bas

Enough.
Ample, very much, too much.
And so; in short, in a word.
Only, merely.
Enough! stop! that's all! that'll do!

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.

बेहद bēhad

Limitless, unlimited, unbounded.
Excessive, too, too much.

बेहद का bēhad kā

Limitless, unlimited, unbounded.

बेफिक्र bēphikr

Carefree, careless, unworried, unmindful.
(Bābā) Worriless, free from anxiety, without worries.

बेफिक्र बादशाह bēphikr bādśhāh

Carefree emperor.

बेसमझ bēsamajh

'Without understanding'. Unintelligent, stupid.

बेसमझी bēsamajhī

Foolishness, stupidity, silliness.

भाग्य bhāgya

Fortune, fate, luck, destiny.

भाग्य विधाता bhāgya vidhātā

He who ordains, dispenses destiny, fate, fortune of each.
(Hinduism) Brahmā "the Ordainer of the World", personifying Destiny.
(Bābā) Śhiv who elevates destiny according to the effort of remembrance.

भक्ति bhakti

Religious devotion, adoration, loving faith, piety, devoted service.
(Bābā) Bhakti, the system of worship based on faith in God, devotion and love for Him, devoid however of the true knowledge (gyan) about Him.

भल bhal

Even if, even though.

भारत bhārat

The ancient name of India (so called because it was the patrimony of Bharat, son of Dushyant, who is said to have been the first monarch of all India)

भारी bhārī

Heavy.
Difficult to digest.
Weighty, massive.
Grave.
Burdensome.

भारीपन bhārīpan

Heaviness.
Weightiness, massiveness.
Gravity.

भरना bharnā

To fill, to refill.

भरपूर bharpūr

Quite full, brimful, chokeful, crammed, replete, overflowing.
Sufficient, quite enough.
High (as a tide).
Full (as the moon).

भाषा bhāṣhā

Language, speech.
The vernacular of any country.
Dialect.
The Hindī language.

भाषण bhāṣhaṇ

Speech, address.

भव bhav

(imperative of 'to be', 'to become' in Sanskrit) Just become.
(Bābā) The word introduces a blessing 'May you be...' placed at the beginning in English but at the end in Hindi.

भाव bhāv

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

भविष्य bhaviṣhya

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

भी bhī

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

भिन्न bhinn

Divided, separated, separate.
Distinct, different, other.

भूल bhūl

Forgetfulness, oversight, neglect, negligence, omission, failure, miss, slip, mistake, error, blunder, fault.

भुलाना bhulānā

To cause to be forgotten, to erase from the mind; to forget.
To deceive, to mislead.
To bewilder, to fascinate.

भूलना bhūlnā

To forget.

बिगाड़ना bigāṛnā

To spoil, to destroy, to ruin, to damage, to put out of order, to foil, to cause to go astray.

बीज bīj

Seed, kernel. Source, origin, primary cause.

बीमार bīmār

Sick, ill, ailing, unwell, indisposed.
Sick person, patient.

बिना binā

Without, exclusive of, wanting, except (it may often be conveniently rendered by the Eng. neg. prefixes un-, in, or by the affix -less).

बिस्तर bistar

Bed, bedding (particularly of a soldier, faqīr, traveller, &c., which is rolled up in the morning).
The abode or resting place of a faqīr.

बीतना bītnā

To pass, elapse, expire (as time).
To come to pass, take place, occur, happen, befall, arrive.
To undergo, suffer, endure.

बोझ bōjh

Burden, load.

बोलना bōlnā

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

ब्राह्मण brāhmaṇ

(Hinduism) The first of the four castes in traditional Hindu social hierarchy whose main duty, as prescribed, was to study, to teach, to perform yagya and to subsist through alms.
(Brahma Kumaris) The mouth born child of Brahma.

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.

बूढ़ा būṛhā

Old, aged.
Old man.

business

Business.

businessman

Businessman.

चाबी chābī

Key.

चाहे chāhē

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

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.

चैतन्य chaitanya

Conscious, sensitive, alert and awake.
Consciousness, spirit.

चक्र, चक्कर chakra, chakkar

Circle, disc.
Cycle, circular movement, rotation, revolution, circumambulation, round.
(Sanskrit) The royal wheel, badge of sovereignty.
(Sanskrit) Region, country; sovereignty.
myth. Flaming disc, solar weapon of Viṣṇu.

चलना chalnā

Continue.

चन्द्रवंशी chandravanśhī

The one belonging to the lunar dynasty or race.
(Bābā) A descendant of the lunar lineage (kṣatriya lineage of the Silver Age).

चढ़ना chaṛhnā

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

चढ़ती कला chaṛhtī kalā

The art of Ascent.
The number of kalā (degree or sixteenth) increasing.
(Sikhism) Good humor, always being positive, moving forward. Chardi Kala reflects a state of mind based on dedication and the Will of God. One must fulfill one's obligations regardless of difficulties.

चौथा chauthā

The fourth (in succession).
(the rituals observed on) the fourth day of somebody's death.

चेहरा chēhrā

Face, countenance, mask, front.

centre

Centre.

chair

Chair.

chance

Chance.

chart

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

check

Check.

छोड़ना chhōṛnā

To leave.
To abandon.
To release.

छोटा chhōṭā

Small, little, short, young, petty, subordinate, junior, insignificant.

छोटा-मोटा chhōṭā-mōṭā

Petty, minor, insignificant, ordinary.

चित्र chitra

Picture, painting, illustration, figure, photo.

चीज़ chīz

Thing, article, item, object; commodity; ornament.
A thing of value, a valuable, a precious thing.

control

Control.

copy

Copy.

चुनना chunnā

To select, to choose, to pick, to elect.

दादी dādī

Paternal grandmother.
(Brahma Kumaris) Eldest sister (older in gyan than the Didis who are also elder sisters)

डालना ḍālnā

To put in, to pour, to drop, to thrust.

दान dān

Donation, charity, alms, a religious gift (in cash or kind).
A suffix used to denote a stand, container or pot etc.

दरबार लगाना darbār lagānā

To gather members of the royal court, to convene a royal court.

डरना ḍarnā

To be afraid, be frightened, be daunted, to fear, dread.

दर्पण darpaṇ

Mirror, looking glass.

दाता dātā

Giving, bestowing, imparting, liberal, generous.
Giver, donor, benefactor.
The Giver of all things, God.

देहभान dēhbhān

Perception of the body, consciousness of the body, recollection of the body. (to be distinguished from dēh-abhimān 'considering oneself as the body' and body consciousness 'corporeal consciousness')

देखना dēkhnā

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

देना dēnā

To give.

देरी dērī

Delay, lag.

देव dēv

A god, a deity.

देवता dēvtā

A god, deity, divine being. (does not apply to God)

देवता बनना dēvtā bannā

To become a divinity.

धन dhan

Wealth, riches, money.

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.

धीमा dhīmā

Slow.
Dull, mild, low, gentle.

धोखा dhōkhā

Deception, deceit, fraud, cheating, guile, subterfuge. A scarecrow.

दिखाई dikhāī

Showing (one self, itself, &c.), coming in sight, appearance; exhibition, show, display.

दिखाई देना dikhāī dēnā

To show oneself (or itself, &c.), to come in sight, to appear, to be visible or apparent, to be seen.

दिल dil

Heart, courage, spirit, will.

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).

दिव्य divya

Divine, heavenly, celestial, supernatural, magical, wonderful.

दो dō

Two, 2.

double

Double.

double light

Double light.
(Bābā) The light of Knowledge and the lightness of mind.

drama

Drama.
(Bābā) Film (which repeats itself identically unlike a play).
(Bābā) The Great Drama of life lasting 5000 years which revolves eternally. Human beings are the actors: souls occupying a costume or body. The sun, moon and stars are the lighting of the stage. The part of each person is inscribed in the soul and cannot be modified, which makes the Drama predestined.

दृष्टि dr̥iṣhṭi

Sight, view, vision, glance.
(Bābā) Vision, look.

दुआ duā

Prayer.
Blessing.

दुःख duḥkh

Sorrow, unhappiness, suffering, grief, distress.

दुःखमय duḥkhmay

Abounding in pain, consisting of suffering, full of sorrow, tragic, unhappy, dolorous, filled with grief.

दुःखना duḥkhnā

To pain, to ache, to smart, to throb.
To feel pity or compassion (for).
To feel compunction or remorse.

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.

दूसरा dūsrā

Second.
Other, another.
Next.

द्वारा dvārā

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

earth

Earth.

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).

एकरस ēkras

Of one flavour, or character.
Monotonous.
Pleased with one thing only, unchanging, constant.
(Bābā) Stable in praise and defamation (enjoying company of one).

emerge

To emerge.

energy

Energy.

fail

Fail.

फ़र्ज-अदाई farj-adāī

Accomplishment, discharge or completion of one's duty, obligations, responsibilities.

फ़र्क fark

Difference, distinction, distance.

fast

Fast.

first

First.

fix

To fix.

follow father

To follow the Father (there is no article in hindi).

foundation

Foundation.

game

Game.

गाना gānā

To sing, to chant.
A song.

गन्दा gandā

Dirty, filthy.
Morbid.

गंवाना ganvānā

To lose, to waste, to squander.

गति gati

Motion, movement.
Speed.
State, condition, plight.
Shape, appearance.
Access, approach, pass.
Destiny, salvation.

घबराना ghabrānā

To be confused, confounded, flurried, or flustered.
To be perplexed, bewildered, or embarrassed.
To be perturbed, disturbed in mind, agitated, disquieted, distracted.
To be alarmed, scared, dismayed.
To confound, embarrass, perplex, &c.
To disturb, agitate.
To alarm, scare, dismay.

घण्टा ghaṇṭā

Bell, gong, clock, hour.

घर ghar

Home, house, residence, apartment, room.
Compartment.
Native place, homeland.
Office.
Square or cell (in a chess-board).

gift

Gift.

गिरना girnā

To fall.

ग्राहक grāhak

A customer, client.

group

Group.

गुजरात gujarāt

Gujarat, state of India.

गुलाब gulāb

A rose.

गुलाम gulām

A slave.

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).

गुण-दान guṇ-dān

Donation of qualities, donation of virtues.

ज्ञान gyān

Knowledge directly taught by God.

ज्ञानी gyānī

Who has Gyān, wise, learned, knowledgeable, well-informed, one who has attained self-realisation.

हद had

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

हाल hāl

State, condition.
Circumstances, situation.
Present and immediately preceding time.
Account, story, news.

हाल-चाल hāl-chāl

General condition, state of affairs.
News.

हलचल halchal

Commotion, hustle.
Agitation, movement.

हल्का halkā

Light, cheap, thin, faint.

hall

Hall.

हम ham

We.
(rustic form) I.

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.

हिम्मत himmat

Courage, boldness.

होना hōnā

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

होशियार hōśhiyār

Clever, wise, intelligent, careful.

इच्छा ichchhā

Wish, desire, will.

इकट्ठा ikaṭṭhā

Collected, gathered.
Together, in one lot.

in

In.

invention

Invention.

इस समय is samay

At this time, now.

इशारा iśhārā

Sign, signal, hint, indication, gesture.

इसलिए isliē

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

ईश्वरीय īśhvarīy

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

इतना itnā

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

जब jab

(Relative pronoun) When.

जहाँ jahā̃

Where, wherever.

जैसा jaisā

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

जल्दी jaldī

Hurry, haste.
Quickly, urgently, immediately.

जमा jamā

Collected, deposited.
Deposit, credit, accumulation, sum-total.

जमा करना jamā karnā

To collect, to accumulate, to amass, to gather together, to assemble, to heap, to store up, to lay by.
To add together, to add up, to sum up.
To deposit, to credit, to carry to credit or account.

जमाना jamānā

To freeze, to solidify, to make firm, to harden, to make coagulate.
To establish, to settle.
To make sit for a long time.
To fix.
To make take root.
To make effective.

जमना jamnā

To freeze, to solidify, to become firm or hard, to clot.
To be established, to be settled, to settle, to have a prolonged sitting, to sit for long, to be fixed, to take root.
To be effective.

जाना jānā

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

जन्मना janamnā

To be born.

जन्म janm

Birth, origin, genesis.
Life, existence.

जानना jānnā

To know, to become aware of, to perceive.

जड़ jaṛ

Inanimate, immovable, inert.
Idiot, stupid.

जड़ना jaṛnā

To stud, to inlay, to fix, to set, to mount, to put in.

जरूरत jarūrat

Necessity, importance.
Need, requirement.

झलकना jhalaknā

To shine, glare, glitter, glisten, sparkle, flash.

झाड़ jhāṛ

Tree, bush.

झूला jhūlā

A swing.
A cradle.

झूलना jhūlnā

To swing, to oscillate, to dangle.

जितना jitnā

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

जीवन jīvan

Life, animation, existence.

जीवनमुक्त jīvanmukt

phil. [“delivered alive”] who has achieved spiritual liberation during his life (and can thus go about the affairs of the world without attachment and defilement, and abstain from the rites and duties of his caste); he observes the present with indifference.
adj & sm Exonerated whilst living from future birth or transmigration and all ritual ceremonies. One who is so exonerated.
(Bābā) Delivered alive (in the age of union with God, or in the golden and silver ages)

जीवनमुक्ति jīvanmukti

phil. [“deliverance in this life”] state of liberation, ultimate goal of yoga.
(Vedanta) Liberation in the present state of life, a secondary sort of liberation which conducts the soul after death to live with Brahma not however divested of a subtile corporeal frame.
(Bābā) Liberation in life (in the age of union with God, or in the golden and silver ages)

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.

ज्यादा में ज्यादा jyādā mē̃ jyādā

Too much, overmuch.
At the greatest or highest, at the very most.

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)

कब kab

Interrogative adverb: When? At what time ?

कभी kabhī

Sometime, ever.

कदम kadam

Step, pace, footstep.

कहाँ kahā̃

Interrogative pronominal adverb : Where ?

कहाँ तक kahā̃ tak

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

कहना kahnā

Say.

कई kaī

Several, sundry, divers, some, some few.

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.

काल kāl

Time, period, age, era, season.
Destiny, end, death, famine, calamity.
(mythology) Kāla, epith. of Yama-Mṛtyu, the god of Death, in his aspect of destructive Time.

कला kalā

Art, craft, skill.
A sixteenth part (of anything).
A digit or one sixteenth of the moon's diameter (allowing you to distinguish the phases of the moon).
(Bābā) One-sixteenth of the full spiritual light.

काला kālā

Black, dark.
Great, fearful, terrible.
A name of Kr̥iṣhṇa.
The black and most venomous variety of the cobra, Coluber naga.
A sepoy.
(Bābā) Blackened, soiled by vices.

कलियुग kaliyug

The kali age, the iron age, the fourth and the last age of the universe according to the Hindu mythology.
(fig.) the age of vice.

कल्प kalp

(Hinduism) Great cosmological cycle of creation, where the material Universe is created, degrades and is annihilated during the kalpānta.
(Hinduism) Cosmological period of one day (half-day) of Brahmā, duration of a creation of the Universe, worth 1000 great eras [mahāyuga] (approximately 4.32 billion years); each kalpa consists of 14 eras of Manu [manvantara].
(Bābā) Great cosmological cycle of creation, where the material Universe is created in its state of maximum purity, degrades and is then destroyed and recreated (transformation and not annihilation).
(Bābā) cosmological period of one day (paradise for 2500 years) and one night (hell for 2500 years) of Brahmā, duration of a creation of the Universe, worth 5000 years.

कम kam

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

काम kām

Passion, lust.
Desire.

काम kām

Work, task, job, employment, performance, function.

कम होना kam hōnā

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

कमाना kamānā

To earn, to acquire, to get.
To accumulate, to save.

कमजोर kamjōr

Weak, feeble, ineffectual.

कारण kāraṇ

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

कराना karānā

To cause to be done, cause to be made; to actuate, effect, make; to perform (sacrifice, etc.), to assist.

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.

कर्मचारी karmchārī

An employee, worker, post-holder, staff member.

कर्मेन्द्रिय karmēndriy

(Hinduism) One of the five 'organs of action' : the hand, foot, larynx, and organs of generation and excretion.
(Bābā) One of the 10 faculties or organs of interaction: 5 for the sensory faculties and 5 for the action faculties. The use of these 10 faculties creates karma. Hence the name karmēndriy “faculty or organ of karma”.

कर्मयोगी karmyōgī

Yōgī in action. One who remembers God while acting.

करना karnā

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

कारोबार kārōbār

Work, labour, business, affairs, dealings, transactions.

कारोबारी kārōbārī

One engaged in business, a trader, a transactor of business, a man of business, a manager, an officer.

कर्तव्य kartavya

Duty.
To be done, to be accomplished.

कार्य kārya

Action, act, activity.
Work, task, duty, function, role.
Occupation.
Business, matter (in hand), agenda.

कौन kaun

interrogative pronoun. Who

कौन सा kaun sā

Interrogative adjective and pronoun : which.

कौरव kaurav

(Hinduism) The descendants of king Kuru, representing the vanquished party amongst the belligerents in the great Indian war : the Mahābhārat.
Kauravas. characters from “Mahabharata”, a symbol of people who don’t have love for God, whose intellect is diverted away from God.
The Kauravas, those who claim to be religious but lead a vicious life Baba uses this word for body conscious residents of Bharat (in distinction from the Yadavas, Europeans or Westerners).

कौड़ी kauṛī

A small shell (used as a coin), a 'cowrie,' Cyprœa moneta.

के आगे kē āgē

In front of, ahead of, before.

के बाद kē bād

After.

के बजाए kē bajāē

In place of, in lieu of, instead of.

के लिए kē liē

For, for the sake of.

के पास kē pās

Near to.
Belonging to (genitive marker).
To have (used with the verb hōnā to be).

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".

key

Key.

खाद khād

Rubbish, refuse, filth, dirt, dung, muck, manure.
Anything rotten or decayed.
(Bābā) Alloy, impurity.

खजाना khajānā

Treasure.
Treasury, repository.

खाली khālī

Empty, vacant, unoccupied, blank, unemployed.
Unaccented beat (in music).
Ineffective, fallow.
Only, mere.

खाना khānā

To eat, to feed on, to consume, to swallow, to take.
to get, to receive.
To feel, to suffer, to endure.
Eating, food, meal, dinner.

खाना-पीना khānā-pīnā

To eat and drink.
Food, eating and drinking.

खराब kharāb

Bad, spoiled, wicked, depraved, defective, faulty, miserable.

खर्च, खर्चा kharch, kharchā

Expenditure, expense, cost, outlay.

खाता khātā

Ledger or day-book, account-book, waste-book.
Daily account, account-current.

ख़त्म ḵẖatm

Ended, completed, concluded.

खेल khēl

Play; sport; amusement; dallying.
A game.
Something easy or unimportant: a trifle.
A wonder, a spectacle.
Showing (as of a film).

खेलना khēlnā

To play, sport, gambol, frisk, frolic; to amuse or divert oneself.
To play at, to gamble, to play a part or character, to act, to perform.
To nod the head under the influence of a spirit.

खेती khētī

Farming, cultivation, agriculture.
Corn-field, sown-land.
A crop, produce.

खींचना, खैंचना khīñchnā, khaiñchnā

To pull, to pull one's leg, to draw, to tighten, to expand, to extract, to attract, to drag.

खिट-खिट khiṭ-khiṭ

Disturbance, interruption of peace, conflict.

खोलना khōlnā

To open, to unfold, to untie, to detach, to unravel, to unroll, to unfasten.

खोना khōnā

To lose, to squander.

खुद khud

Self (myself, himself, itself, &c.).
Own, private, personal.

खुलना khulnā

To open.
To be uncovered.
To be untied.
To start.
To clear.

खुश khuśh

Happy, pleased.
Good.

खुशबू khuśhbū

Fragrance, perfume, odour.

खुशी khuśhī

Joy, delight, happiness.

कि ki

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

किनारा kinārā

Bank, shore, edge, border, verge.

कितना kitnā

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

knowledgeful

Knowledgeful.

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.

कोशिश kōśhiśh

Effort, endeavour.

क्रोध krōdh

Anger, wrath, fury, rage.

क्रोधी krōdhī

Short-tempered, hot-tempered, irascible.

करोड़ krōṛ

100 lākh, 10 000 000.

क्षमा kṣhamā

Forgiveness, pardon, condonation, remission, absolution, dispensation.

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.

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.

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.

लहर lahar

Wave, ripple, undulation.
A wavy pattern.
Surge, caprice, whim, impulse.

लाख lākh

A hundred thousand, 100 000.

लकीर lakīr

A line, lineament.
A streak, stripe.

लक्षण lakṣhaṇ

A symptom.
Indication.
Trait, characteristic feature, characteristic mark.
(Bābā) The symptoms of the soul which show progress towards his/her goal.

लक्ष्मी lakṣhmī

(Hinduism) The goddess of wealth and spouse of Lord Vishṉū.
Prosperity, fortune.
Used deferentially for a woman as symbolising prosperity.
(Bābā) The goddess empress of the Golden Age and wife of the god emperor Nārāyaṇ. The couple is symbolized by Vishṉū who sustains the world through the cycle, especially in the golden and silver ages.

लक्ष्मी-नारायण lakṣhmī-nārāyaṇ

Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇ.

लक्ष्य lakṣhya

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

लम्बा lambā

Long, lengthy, tall.

लड़ना laṛnā

To quarrel, to fight, to struggle, to collide, to clash, to contend, to wrestle, to combat.

last

Last.

लौकिक laukik

Secular, earthly, worldly, mundane.

law

Law.

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.

life

Life.

lift

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

list

List.

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)

low

Low.

मदद madad

Help, assistance, aid, support, relief, reinforcement, hands (as labourers, masons, etc.).

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).

मध्यकाल madhyakāl

Middle period: mediaeval period.
(Bābā) Middle period of the cycle: copper age.

माँगना mā̃gnā

To demand, to ask, to call for, to claim, to invite, to solicit.

महाभारत mahābhārat

The great war of the Bharatas or descendants of Bharat.
The great narrative of the war of the Bharatas (name of the great epic poem — ascribed to Vyasa — describing the acts, rivalries, and contests of the Kurus and Pāṇḍus, two great collateral branches of the house of Bhārat, so called from Bharat its founder).

महादानी mahādānī

Very generous, very munificent.
Very generous person, very munificent person.

महान्, महा mahān, mahā

(prefix) Great, illustrious.
Mighty, strong, big, large, ample, excessive, grievous.
Very, extremely, very much.

महाराजा mahārājā

Great king, supreme power, sovereign, emperor.

महारथी mahārathī

One having a great chariot.
A great warrior.
Prestigious person.
(Bābā) One who studies well and teaches others.

महिमा mahimā

Exaltation, greatness, grandeur, glory, dignity, majesty, importance.

मैं maĩ

I. (personal pronoun)

मकान makān

House, residence, abode, habitation, dwelling, home.

मालामाल mālāmāl

Opulent, very prosperous, immensely rich.

मालिक mālik

Master, employer, owner, lord (as landlord), proprietor.
Husband.

मालिकपन mālikpan

The condition of being master, lord, owner.

मालूम mālūm

Known.
Evident, apparent.

मन man

The instinctive mind that creates thoughts according to its desires or aversions. Faculty of human beings shared with animals and small children.
Thought in the form of desire or aversion.

माना mānā

(it) Means, that is.

मनाना manānā

'to make mindful'.
To cause to agree, to persuade; to reason with; to prevail on.
To console.
To conciliate (an opponent, one offended); to placate; to soothe.
To invoke (a deity); to worship; to propitiate (a patron, &c.).
To cause to be kept, to celebrate (as a festival, a holiday).
(poetry) To acknowledge (a fault).
To meditate, to reflect on.

मन्दिर mandir

Temple.

मनोरंजन manōrañjan

Amusement, entertainment, recreation.

मनुष्य manuṣhya

A man, a human being.

मंज़िल mañzil

Destination, stage, storey.

मस्तक mastak

The head, the skull, the forehead.
Top or highest part (of anything), summit (of a mountain).

master

Master.

मात-पिता, माता-पिता māt-pitā, mātā-pitā

Mother and father, parents.
Lord, master, protector.

माता mātā

Mother.
An affectionate or respectful term of address to a woman.
The small-pox (so named from the goddess Devī; cf. sītalā).

मौज mauj

Play, sport, fun, diversion; acts or sights exciting merriment.
Pleasure, delight: also mirth or merriment.
A sudden fancy or freak; a mere humor or whim.
A wave, a billow.

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.

मज़ा mazā

Pleasure, relish, savour, taste, flavour, fun, jollity.

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.

मेरा नहीं mērā nahī̃

Not mine.

merciful

Merciful.

merge

To merge.

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.

minute

Minute.

मीठा mīṭhā

Sweet, pleasant.
Sweetmeat, jaggery.

मोह mōh

Illusion; ignorance; affection; infatuation; fascination; spell.
(in philos.) darkness or delusion of mind preventing the discernment of truth (leading men to believe in the reality of worldly objects, and to addict themselves to mundane or sensual enjoyment).
(sindhi) Affection, attachment, love, charm, fascination, allurement.

मोटा mōṭā

Fat, plump, corpulent, thick.
Coarse, rough, gross.

मुख mukh

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

मुक्त mukt

Free, liberated, delivered.
In particular freed from the bonds of attachment to the world.

मुक्ति mukti

Liberation, freedom; deliverance.
Final deliverance, salvation.

मुक्तिधाम muktidhām

Abode of liberation, of final deliverance, of salvation.: the incorporeal world of souls.

मूँझना mūnjhnā

To be confused.

मूर्ति, मूर्त mūrti, mūrt

Idol, statue, image.

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.

नाचना nāchnā

To dance.
To caper, or frisk about.

नहीं nahī̃

No.
Not.

नहीं तो nahī̃ tō

Otherwise, or else, if not, lest, but for.
No, certainly not.

नाम nām

Name.

नशा naśhā

Intoxication, drunkenness.

नष्टोमोहा naṣhṭōmōhā

Dispelled mōh :

  • Illusion; ignorance; affection; infatuation; fascination; spell dispelled.
  • (in philosophy) Darkness or delusion of mind preventing the discernment of truth (leading men to believe in the reality of worldly objects, and to addict themselves to mundane or sensual enjoyment) dispelled.
    (Bābā) Destroyer of attachment, the one who dispels mōh.

नया nayā

New, novel, fresh, unused, green, recent, modern, raw, inexperienced, young.

नज़र nazar

Sight, eyesight, vision, look, glance, attention.
Gift, present, offering.
Influence cast by an evil eye.

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.

नीचे nīchē

Below, under, beneath, at the bottom, down, below.

नीचे-ऊपर nīchē-ūpar

Up and down.
One above and the other below.
Upside-down, topsy-turvy.

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.

निमित्त nimitt

Cause, reason, factor, purpose, motive.
For the sake of, on account of.
(Bābā) Instrument. He who acts for the Cause of God, in His name.

निमित्त-मात्र nimitt-mātra

Just an instrument.

निर्बल nirbal

Without strength, powerless, impotent, weak, feeble, frail, fragile.

निर्मान nirmān

Humble, without conceit, without arrogance, without pride.

निर्माण nirmāṇ

Construction, creation, manufacture.

निशानी niśhānī

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

निश्चय niśhchay

Confidence, faith, certainty.

निश्चयबुद्धि niśhchaybuddhi

Determined mind, assured mind, decided mind, certain mind, resolute mind.

निश्चित niśhchit

Ascertained; not subject to doubt.
Determined, fixed, settled; definite, decided.

निवासी nivāsī

Dwelling, abiding (in), inhabiting.
A resident (of), an inhabitant; a native (of).

नुकसान nuksān

Loss, damage, harm, disadvantage.

number

Number.

नम्बरवार number-wār

In order, orderly.
According to his rank, his position.

न्यारा nyārā

Separate(d), staying away (from a joint family), unique, novel, distinct.

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.

order

Order.

out

Out.

पद pad

Office, status, rank.
A versified composition (esp. eulogizing God or His sport).
Foot (of a measure or verse).
Footstep, step.
Expression, term, word in its particular context.
Articles (like an umbrella, shoes, clothes, utensils) given away for the gratification of the soul of a deceased.
(Bābā) Position obtained in the Golden Age (king, queen, subject, servant, etc.) through current efforts (of the Age of Encounter).

पदम padam

A lotus-flower and its plant.
A particular high number, ten trillions (according to the Śāstras), or one thousand trillions (according to the Dasturuʼl-ʻamal or royal ordinances of Akbar).

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.

पहुंचना pahuñchnā

To reach, to arrive.

पक्का pakkā

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

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

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)

पर par

Opposite, inimical, other, alien, higher.

पार pār

The other coast, the other bank, the other side.
Extremity, limit, conclusion, end.
Across, on the other side, on the other bank, on the other coast.
Past, last, next.

पर-स्थिति par-sthiti

Other or foreign state, situation or condition. (to be compared to paristhiti "circumstances, situation" and to be distinguished from sva-sthiti "state, situation condition inherent in the soul").

परम param

Extreme, ultimate, absolute, supreme, best, utmost.
The Supreme Being, God.
Extremely, ultimately, absolutely, supremely, to the highest degree.

परन्तु parantu

But, however.

परिचय parichay

Introduction, acquaintance, familiarity.

परिस्थिति paristhiti

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

परिवार parivār

Family, household.

परिवर्तन parivartan

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

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').

परवश parvaśh

Dependent, subservient, under another's control.

pass

To pass.

पता patā

Address, whereabouts, information, knowledge.

पति pati

Husband, master.

फल phal

Fruit (from a tree).
(fig.) Fruit, reward, return, effect, outcome, result, consequence, product.

फरिश्ता phariśhtā

An angel, a divine messenger.

फरिश्ते-पन phariśhtē-pan

Condition, state, life of an angel.

फिक्र phikr

Worry, anxiety, care, concern.

फिर phir

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

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.

पीछे pīchhē

Behind, on the back side of.
After, afterwards.
Backwards.
In the absence of.

plain

Plain.

plane

Plane.

point

Point.

पोत्रा pōtrā

Son of a son, grandson.

powerful

Powerful.

प्रजा prajā

Subjects, public, people.

प्रकार prakār

Manner, way.

प्रमाण pramāṇ

According to or conformably with.
Proof, evidence; verification; warrant.
Evidence (as to a matter).

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).

प्रति prati

Towards.

प्रवृत्ति pravr̥itti

Mentality.
Trend, tendency.
inclination, disposition.
Instinct.
Activity.
(Bābā) Household.

problem

Problem.

पूछना pūchhnā

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

पूजा pūjā

Daily religious rite, divine service; the rite of pūjā gradually supplanted the solemn rites of Vedic sacrifice (yagya).
Worship, adoration, veneration.

पूज्य pūjya

To be honoured, honourable, respectable, venerable, fit for or deserving adoration, adorable, worshipful.

पूरा pūrā

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

पुराना purānā

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

पूरी pūrī

A thin cake of meal fried in ghī or oil.

पुरूष purūṣh

Man.
Soul.

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.

पुरूषोत्तम purūṣhōttam

Best of men, an excellent or superior man.
The highest being, Supreme Spirit, an epithet of Vishṇu, Krishṇa or Rama.

पुष्प puṣhp

Flower.

प्यार pyār

Love, affection, amour, amorous relationship.

प्यारा pyārā

Dear, beloved, loved.
Pleasing, lovely.
A dear one, beloved.

रचता rachtā

Creator one who makes.

रहाना rahānā

To make stay, to make remain.

रहम rahm

Pity, mercy, compassion.

रहना rahnā

To remain, to stay.

राजा rājā

King, monarch, prince.

राजा रानी rājā rānī

King and queen.
Prince and princess.

राज्य rājya

Kingdom, rule, reign, polity, the state.

राज्य अधिकारी rājya adhikārī

King, ruler, governor, one who has the right to rule.

राजयोगी rājyōgī

One who practices yōg to become a rājā (king).

रखना rakhnā

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

रफ्तार raphtār

Speed, pace.

रास rās

Name of a circle dance or chain dance, especially that danced by Kṛiṣhṇa and the gopī.
A Hindū festival including songs and dances celebrated in the month Kārttik, the circular dance practised by cowherds in commemoration of the dance in which Kṛiṣhṇa and the gopī engaged.

रस्सी rassī

Rope, cord, string.
Reins.
Control.
A tie, bond.

रात rāt

Night.

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').

रात्रि rātri

The night.

regard

Regard.

repeat

To repeat.

result

Result.

right

Right.

rocket

Rocket.

रोटी rōṭī

A cake of bread, a cake of flour or meal toasted on an earthen or iron dish or plate.
Bread, a loaf ( = pāʼo roṭī).
Food, sustenance; maintenance, livelihood.

royal family

Royal family.

रोज़ rōz

A day.
Everyday, daily.

रूहानी rūhānī

Spiritual.

रूहरिहान rūhrihān

Conversation of the soul with the soul or the supreme Soul.

रुकना ruknā

To stop, to halt, to stay, to stagnate, to stand.

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.

शब्द śhabd

Word, term, sound.

सबका sabkā

(genitive case of sab) Of everyone.

सबको sabkō

sab + kō : everything, everyone.

सबसे sabsē

(superlative) Of all, the most.

सच्चा sachchā

True, genuine, real.
Truthful, sincere, loyal, faithful.

सदा sadā

Always, perpetually, continually, ever.

सद्गति sadgati

Salvation, assignment to a better abode in the post-death existence.
(Bābā) Fruit, the same as jeevanmukti. It is therefore Salvation, life in the golden age but at the same time this Salvation is quantified by the measure of the efforts made today (which gives the future position of king, subject, servant).

साधारण sādhāraṇ

Ordinary, simple, common, commonplace, usual, moderate.

सागर sāgar

Sea, ocean (huge expanse of water of which we cannot see the end).

सहज sahaj

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

सहजयोगी sahajyōgī

Natural yogi, easy yogi, who practices yoga naturally, easily, innately.

सहन sahan

Patient endurance, forbearance, tolerance.

सहनशीलता sahanśhīltā

Endurance, tolerance, forbearance.

साहूकार sāhūkār

A money-lender, private banker, rich man, man of means.

सहयोग sahyōg

Cooperation, collaboration.

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.

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.

शक्तिशाली śhaktiśhālī

Who possesses power or strength, powerful, strong.

समझ samajh

Understanding, mental grasp, intelligence, sense, judgment.
Mind; opinion, view.

समझदार samajhdār

Discerning, intelligent, sensible, wise, prudent.

समझना samajhnā

To understand.

समान samān

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

समाना samānā

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

समर्पण samarpaṇ

Dedication, surrender.

समस्या samasyā

Problem.

समय samay

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

सम्बन्ध sambandh

Connection, relationship.

सम्भालना sambhālnā

To take care of.
To support.
To hold.
To keep in careful custody.
To manage.
To supervise.

समझाना samjhānā

(Causative of samajhnā) To persuade, explain.

संपन्न sampann

Prosperous, rich, well-off.
Completed, accomplished.
(suffix) Equipped, provided, endowed with, abundantly endowed with, possessed of (as of wealth, learning).

सम्पन्नता sampanntā

Prosperity, wealth, success.
Completion, perfection.

sample

Sample, specimen, example.

सम्पूर्ण sampūrṇ

Whole, entire, complete, perfect.

संगम saṅgam

Confluence, union, meeting.

संगमयुग saṅgamyug

The age of meeting. The fifth age of the cycle allowing the transition from the Iron Age to the Golden Age. The age when human beings can know, meet, remember and learn from God to become deities and go to heaven.

संकल्प saṅkalp

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

संसार saṅsār

Cycle of births or states, transmigration.
The world, the universe.
Life in this world, worldly concerns, illusion as to worldly reality.
(Bābā) The corporeal world in which one reincarnates.

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.

सन्तुष्ट santuṣhṭ

Satisfied, gratified, content.

सन्तुष्टता santuṣhṭatā

Complete satisfaction, contentment, gratification.

सफल saphal

Successful, effective, fruitful.

सफलता saphaltā

Success, achievement.

सप्ताह-कोर्स saptāh-course

7-day course, one-week course, the 7 days of course. Just as there is the 7-day Bhāgavat Purāṇa reading ceremony promising deliverance for the souls who attend it over the entire period, the brahmā kumārīs offer a course summarizing the knowledge of the murli in 7 days (often around an hour per course and spaced out for example by one course per week. So it can last 7 weeks instead of 7 days for a total duration of only 7 hours.).

सारा sārā

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

शरीर śharīr

Body.

सर्व sarv

All ; whole, entire, complete.

सर्वशक्तिवान sarvśhaktivān

Who possesses all powers, omnipotent, all-powerful, almighty.

साथ sāth

With, together, along with.
Company, association.

सतयुग satyug

The first of the four yug of the universe according to Indian mythology. Satyug is said to be the best or golden period or age of creation.

school

School.

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.

सेवा sēvā

Service.
(Bābā) Selfless use of our mind, body and wealth for the benefit of the world.

सेवाभाव sēvābhāv

Intention to serve, purpose of serving, feeling of serving.

सेवाधारी sēvādhārī

'who has, carries, or supports the service'. Server, servant.

सेवास्थान sēvāsthān

Service place.

सिद्ध siddh

Accomplished, brought about; realised (an objective, a wish); completed; perfected.
Obtained, acquired.
Demonstrated, proved (a fact, a case); substantiated.
Sound, valid (as usage); mature (as judgment).
Decided, adjudicated (as a law-suit).
Accepted (as), famous (as).
Cooked (food); prepared, concocted (as a dye).
Thoroughly versed (in a field of knowledge; or in magic).
Endowed with supernatural powers; perfected or sanctified (as by penance).
Sacred, holy.
A semi-divine being of great perfection, said to possess eight supernatural faculties or siddhis.
An ascetic of great powers and saintliness.
A magician who has acquired superhuman powers.

सिद्धि siddhi

Acquisition, accomplishment, fulfilment.
Proof.
Success.
Supernatural powers supposed to be acquired through Yogic practices.

सीधा sīdhā

Straight, simple, right, direct, forthrightly.
Erect, upright.
Gentle, naive, good.

सिखाना sikhānā

To train, to teach, to instruct, to school.

सीखना sīkhnā

To learn.

शिक्षा śhikṣhā

Education, instruction, teaching.
Moral.

शिक्षक śhikṣhak

Teacher, instructor.

सिर sir

Head.
Top, apex, highest part or point.

शीतल śhītal

Cool, cold, frigid.
Without passion, calm.

सीटी sīṭī

A whistle.

सिवाए sivāē

Except, but, with the exception (of).

शिवबाबा śhivbābā

The Father Śiv.

slogan

Slogan.

स्मृति smr̥iti

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

सोचना sōchnā

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

सोना sōnā

Gold, an excellent thing.

सोना sōnā

To sleep.

श्रेष्ठ śhrēṣhṭha

The best, good, excellent, superior.

श्रीमत śhrīmat

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

स्थान sthān

Place, spot, site.

स्थापना, स्थापन sthāpanā, sthāpan

Establishment.
(in particular) The establishment of the new world.

स्थित sthit

Situated, located, placed.
Circumstanced.

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.

stop

Stop.

शुभ śhubh

Auspicious, good.
The good, well-being.

subject

Subject.

सुख sukh

Happiness, pleasure, comfort, felicity, contentment.

सूखना sūkhnā

To dry up, to wither, to dwindle, to be attenuated, to evaporate.

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.

स्व sva

Self.
One's own, proper (to one), personal.
Innate, natural.
Self-, auto-

स्व-परिवर्तन sva-parivartan

Self-transformation.

स्व-स्थिति sva-sthiti

sthiti from sva, 'state, condition, situation of self', Situation of the Self, of the soul: the inherent or innate state of the soul.

स्वभाव svabhāv

Nature, property, properties (of a thing).
Nature, temperament, disposition, character (of a person).
Habit, way; custom, practice.

स्वप्न svapn

A dream.

स्वराज्य svarājya

An independent, sovereign state.
Independence, autonomy, home-rule, self-government.
(Bābā) The state of the soul when it has attained complete control over its sense-organs, mind, intellect and sanskaras. The soul can be seen as the king of a kingdom of its own: the body and the 3 faculties of the soul (man, buddhi and sanskār).

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.

स्वतः svataḥ

By oneself, on one's own.
Of one's own accord or volition.
Involuntarily, automatically.
By nature, naturally.
Self-.

तब tab

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

ताज tāj

Crown, diadem.

तक tak

To, upto, till, until, by.

तकदीर takdīr

Fate, destiny.

तख्त takht

Throne, chair of state; seat, stage, platform; sofa, bed; any place raised above the ground for sitting, reclining, or sleeping.

तख्तनशीन takhtnaśhīn

Enthroned, installed on the throne.

तरीका tarīkā

'path'. Manner (of acting), practice, method.
Custom, usage, system (of procedure).
Manner, style (as of life).

तेज tēj

Sharp, keen, acute, penetrating, piercing, hot, pungent, strong, acrid, caustic, corrosive.
Fiery, passionate, impetuous, violent.
Swift, fleet.
Quick, apt, intelligent, keen-witted.
High-priced, dear.

टेढ़ा ṭeṛhā

Curved, bent, oblique, skew.
Difficult, intricate.

थकना, फथकना thaknā, phathaknā

To be wearied, to weary, tire, be fatigued, be jaded, be exhausted; to flag, droop, faint; to be enervated; to be inert, sluggish; to be slack or dull.

the

The.

ठीक ṭhīk

Right, correct, exact, proper, true.
All right; precisely, accurately.

ठिकाना ṭhikānā

Fixed or permanent place or abode.
Proper place.
Precise or exact spot, whereabouts.
Place, spot, site.
Dwelling place, abode, residence, home, quarters.
Destination.

थोड़ा thōṛā

A little, some, meagre, scanty.
Short.

ठुकराना ṭhukrānā

To kick against, to kick away.
To reject, to rebuff; to spurn.

तिलक tilak

An ornamental or religious mark over the forehead (signifying installation on the throne or engagement etc.).
A vermilion or sandal mark over the forehead.
The most eminent member (of a class, clan, dynasty, etc.).
Commentary of a text.
(Bābā) A red colour mark in the centre of the forehead; a symbol of victory, of sovereignty; a symbol of soul. When we realize ourselves to be souls, points of light, conscious energy in the centre of the forehead, we are self sovereigns, we are victorious over maya, we wear a real tilak.

time

Time.

तीनों tīnō̃

The three, all three.

तीसरा tīsrā

Third.

तीव्र tīvr

Strong, intense, sharp, keen, harsh, swift.
Pungent.
Sharp (a musical note).
Ardent, impetuous.
Excessive.
(Bābā) Fast, intense.

तो tō

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

तो भी tō bhī

Even so, even then, in spite of this/that, nevertheless, nonetheless, still. (often used with bhal 'even though')

touching

Touching.

त्रिकालदर्शी trikāldarśhī

Seeing the three times: the past, the present and the future; omniscient; Rishi or divine sage.

तू tū

(intimate mode to address one's companion, one's child or God; otherwise insulting) You.

टुकड़ा ṭukṛā

Piece, fragment, part, splinter.
Leavings.

उल्टा ulṭā

Reverse, reversed, topsy-turvy, opposite, contrary, overturned, inverted.

उमंग-उल्लास umaṅg-ullās

Enthusiasm and joy.
Pleasure.
Gusto and happiness.

ऊंच ūñch

High, lofty, tall, raised, elevated, exalted, eminent.

underline

Underline.

उन्नति unnati

Progress, rise.
Promotion.
Improvement, betterment.
Development.

ऊपर ūpar

On, upon, above, upward, over.

उड़ना uṛnā

To fly.
To fade, to get dim, to vanish.
To explode.

use

Use.

उतरना utarnā

To get down, to alight, to go down.
To come off or decay; to be dislocated.
To land, to disembark.

उठाना uṭhānā

To raise, to lift up.
To wake up.
To rent out.
To bear.
To remove.

उठना uṭhnā

To raise.
To get up.
To be rented out.
To pass away, to expire.

उठवाना uṭhvānā

To cause to be lifted or raised or removed, &c.

उत्तम uttam

The best, excellent, good.

उत्तर uttar

Answer, reply.
North.
Later.

वा vā

Or.

वह vah

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

वाह vāh

An exclamatory word denoting admiration, appreciation, contempt, opposition, surprise, etc. : well done ! bravo ! excellent ! how can that be ! that can't be so.

वहां vahā̃

There.

वाला vālā

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

वंचित vañchit

Deprived.
Cheated, deceived, tricked.

वाणी vāṇī

Speech, voice.
Saraswati : the goddess of speech.

वरदान vardān

Granting a favor or a wish, blessing.
(Hindu mythology) A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.

वरदानी vardānī

The bestower of blessing, the one who grants a favor, a wish.

variety

Variety.

वर्ष varṣh

Year.

वर्सा varsā

The inheritance. What our father leaves behind after he leaves.

वर्तमान vartamān

Present, existing; current.
The present.

विदेश vidēśh

Foreign country.

विदेशी vidēśhī

Foreign, alien, exotic.
A foreigner, foreign national.

विधि vidhi

Law.
Method, manner, system.
Direction.
Rule.
A prescribed act or rite or ceremony, prescription, imperative.
Destiny, providence.
The Creator-Lord Brahmā.

विधिपूर्वक vidhipūrvak

According to rule, agreeably to prescribed law.

विघ्न vighna

Interruption, interference, meddling, obstacle, disturbance.

विघ्न-प्रूफ vighna-proof

Obstacle-proof.

विजय vijay

Conquest, victory, triumph.

विजयी vijayī

Conquering, victorious, triumphant.
A conqueror.

विकल्प vikalp

Option, alternative.
Uncertainty.
(Bābā) Impure thought, false idea (aśuddha khyāl).

विकार vikār

Deformation, defilement.
Change or variation (for the worse).
Deviation from a natural state, perversion, disorder.
(Bābā) Vice (Sex lust, Anger, Greed, Attachment and Ego).

विकर्म vikarm

Prohibited or unlawful act, misdeed, fraud.
(Bābā) Bad karma, bad action.

विनाशी vināśhī

Perishable, destructible.

विशेष viśhēṣh

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

विशेषता viśhēṣhtā

Speciality, peculiarity, singularity, quality, attribute, characteristic.

विश्व viśhva

The world, universe.

व्यर्थ vyarth

Useless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, unprofitable.

waste

Waste.

way

Way.

west

West.

world

World.

या yā

Or, either.

याद yād

Remembrance, recollection, memory.

याद दिलाना yād dilānā

To remind.

याद करना yād karnā

To think of, to remember, recollect, call to mind.
To commit to memory.
(Bābā) To remember (by making an effort). It is a function of the higher mind (buddhi).

याद रखना yād rakhnā

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

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.

यंत्र yantra

Machine, instrument, amulet, talisman, mystical diagram.

यथार्थ yathārth

Real, actual.
Accurate.

योग yōg

Connection, union.
Combination; conjuncture (as of heavenly bodies); agreement, similarity.
Yoga, a theory or practice of abstract meditation undertaken to bring the soul towards or into union with the supreme spirit; bodily exercises or disciplines, as conducive to the above.
(Bābā) Union in remembrance (especially with the Father).

योगयुक्त yōgyukt

Immersed in deep meditation , absorbed in Yoga.

युद्ध yuddh

War, warfare, battle, fight, fighting, combat, hostilities.

युक्ति yukti

Device.
Means.
Tactics, artifice, manoeuvre.
Skill.
Argument, plea.

युक्तियुक्त yuktiyukt

Reasonable, rational, logical.
Appropriate.

ज़रूर zarūr

Certainly, undoubtedly, positively, without fail.

ज़िम्मेवारी, ज़िम्मेदारी zimmēvārī, zimmēdārī

Responsibility, obligation.