Daily Murli for Tuesday 14 November 2023

अब ab

Now.

अच्छा achchhā

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

actor

Actor.

आदि ādi

Etcetera.
Beginning.
Early, initial, primordial.

adopt

To take something or someone as one’s own.

अगर agar

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

अज्ञान agyān

Ignorance, paucity of knowledge.

ऐसा aisā

Such, of this type.

आज āj

Today.

अल्फ alpha

alif, The first letter of the Arabic, Persian, and Urdū alphabets.
Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet.
(Bābā) The first thing to remember: ŚhivBābā.

अमरलोक amarlōk

The region of the immortal, the region of the gods, heaven, paradise.
(Bābā) The Earth in the golden age where the inhabitants are gods and goddesses, human beings with divine qualities, conscious of their immortality (identified with the soul)

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.

अन्दर andar

In, inside, within.

अन्धियारा, अंधेरा andhiyārā, andhērā

Dark.
Darkness.

अनेक anēk

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

अन्त ant

End.

अन्तिम antim

Last, final, ultimate, concluding, conclusive.

अनुभूति anubhūti

Emotional experience, inner experience, realisation.

अनुसार anusār

According to, in conformity with.

अफ्रीका aphrīkā

Africa (a continent).

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.

अरे arē

O !, a form of address (used for inferiors or juniors).
I say! hullo! (attracting attention).
Oh! (expressing astonishment, or concern).

अर्थात् arthāt

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

अशरीरी aśharīrī

Incorporeal, bodiless, unembodied.

आशीर्वाद āśhīrvād

Blessing, benediction.

आत्मा ātmā

The soul, the spirit, the self.

और aur

And.
Else.
Other.

अवस्था avasthā

Condition, state, age, stage, phase.

अविनाशी avināśhī

Indestructible, imperishable, everlasting, immortal, entire.

बाबा bābā

Father.

बच्चा bachchā

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

बदलना badalnā

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

बागवान bāgvān

Master of the garden, Owner of the garden (title given to God).

बहुत bahut

Many, much.
Very.

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.

बाकी सब bākī sab

Everything else, everyone else, all the rest.

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.

बनना bannā

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

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.

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.

बौद्ध bauddh

Buddhist.

बेहद का bēhad kā

Limitless, unlimited, unbounded.

भगवान bhagvān

Fortunate, prosperous, happy, glorious, illustrious, adorable, divine, worshipful.
(epithet) God, the Lord Almighty, the Supreme Being (Śhiv and not Viṣhṇu).
(Hinduism) (epithet) The god Nārāyaṇ.

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)

भारतवासी bhāratvāsī

Inhabitant of Bhārat.

भारी bhārī

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

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.

भावी bhāvī

Future, coming.
Destiny, future.

भविष्य bhaviṣhya

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

भी bhī

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

भ्रष्टाचार bhraṣhṭāchār

Corruption, depravity, wantonness.

भ्रष्टाचारी bhraṣhṭāchārī

(One who is) corrupt, depraved, wanton.

भूलना bhūlnā

To forget.

भूत bhūt

Past, bygone.
Ghost, evil spirit.
Matter.
One of the five elements (earth, water, air, fire, and ether).
Any animate or inanimate object of creation.
(suffix) become, turned or rendered.
(Bābā) Evil spirit. Baba generally counts five: that of ego, desire (lust), covetousness (greed), anger and illusion (attachment). These evil spirits are capable of possessing us, distancing us from our nature and deep truth. It is a personification of a vice.

बीज bīj

Seed, kernel. Source, origin, primary cause.

bomb

Bomb.

बोना bōnā

To sow, to plant.

ब्रह्मा brahmā

(Hinduism) Brahmā or the Supreme Being regarded as a person, the first deity of the Hindū triad and the Creator of the World.
(Bābā) The first human being in which the Supreme Being descends to give the knowledge allowing us to free ourselves from our bonds of karma.

ब्रह्मा का दिन brahmā kā din

Day of Brahmā.
(Hinduism) One kalp or 1000 great eras (mahāyug) (about 4.32 billion years).
(Bābā) The golden and silver ages.
(Bābā) Half a kalp or 2500 years.

ब्रह्मा की रात brahmā kī rāt

Night of Brahmā.
(Hinduism) One kalp or 1000 great eras (mahāyug) (about 4.32 billion years).
(Bābā) The copper and iron ages.
(Bābā) Half a kalp or half of 5000 years: 2500 years.

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.

बुद्ध buddha

Any wise or learned man, a sage.
The Buddha or 'enlightened,' who is regarded as the ninth incarnation of Vishṇu, and the apparent founder of Buddhism.

बुद्धि buddhi

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

चाहिए chāhiē

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

चाहना chāhnā

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

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.

चौथ का चन्द्रमा chauth kā chandramā

'moon of the fourth day', The moon on the fourth night of a fortnight: esp. that of the bright fortnight of Bhādoṁ (supposed to bring reproach or disgrace on one who looks at it).

छोड़ना chhōṛnā

To leave.
To abandon.
To release.

Christian

Christian.

छुड़ाना chhuṛānā

To free.

दंत dant

A tooth.

देह dēh

Body.

देह-अभिमान dēh-abhimān

Considering oneself as the body.
Bodily pride.

देही-अभिमानी dēhī-abhimānī

(Bābā) Who considers himself as the soul which animates the body.

देखना dēkhnā

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

देना dēnā

To give.

देवता dēvtā

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

धर्म dharm

What is to be held or kept: the complex of religious and social obligations which a devout Hindu is required to fulfil, right action, duty; morality; virtue, virtuous life; justice.
Customary observances of community or sect, etc.
The prescriptions or sanctions of religion; moral law.
Religion.
Particular nature or character; walk of life; way of life (e.g. of a woman as opposed to a man, of a man as opposed to a youth); caste.
Spiritual merit, as deriving from the fulfilment of dharma.

धारणा के लिए मुख्य सार dhārṇā kē liē mukhya sār

Essence for dhārṇā.

दिखाई dikhāī

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

दिल dil

Heart, courage, spirit, will.

दो dō

Two, 2.

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.

दुःख duḥkh

Sorrow, unhappiness, suffering, grief, distress.

दुःखी duḥkhī

Sorrowful, sad, unhappy, grief-stricken, afflicted, woeful.

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.

दुश्मन duśhman

Enemy, foe.

दूसरा dūsrā

Second.
Other, another.
Next.

द्वारा dvārā

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

एक ēk

One, 1, a, single, alone.
The number one.
The One, the Number One. God. There is only one God (Supreme Being) but many gods and goddesses (golden age deities).

एक-दो ēk-dō

One another.

European

European.

फ़र्क fark

Difference, distinction, distance.

feature

Feature.

गाली gālī

An abusive or contumelious expression, abuse, foul or insulting language.

गाना gānā

To sing, to chant.
A song.

घर ghar

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

घड़ी-घड़ी ghaṛī-ghaṛī

Every now and again; again and again; repeatedly; constantly, every moment.

घोर ghōr

Awful, formidable, terrible.
Dense, thick, deep.
Sharp.

गीता gītā

(Hinduism) The Bhagvadgītā which contains the celebrated discourse of Lord Kr̥ṣṇa directed to Arjun, the stupefied hero of the Mahābhārat.
(Bābā) The true Gītā is the murlī.

golden age

Golden age.

good morning

Good morning.

गोरा gōrā

White, fair-skinned.
A whiteman, a European.

गृहस्थ gr̥ihasth

Being a householder; a householder; a brāhmaṇ carrying out the obligations of domestic life.
(Bābā) Household, carrying out the obligations of domestic life.

गुह्य guhya

Requiring, or able to be, hidden.
Secret, mysterious; esoteric.

गुस्सा gussā

Anger, rage, fury.

ज्ञान gyān

Knowledge directly taught by God.

ज्ञान चिता gyān chitā

Funeral pyre of Gyān, funeral pyre of Knowledge. By listening to what God teaches (the murlī), the bodily ego (body consciousness) is burned. This is what is called 'dying alive'.

ज्ञान सागर gyān sāgar

Sea or ocean of Gyān, sea or ocean of Knowledge.

ज्ञान यज्ञ gyān yagya

Sacrificial fire of knowledge.
Brahma Kumaris (our school), i.e. Gyān Yagya created by Shiv Baba (Rudra) to enable souls, by studying spiritual knowledge (Gita), to sacrifice body consciousness (ashva means “horse”) and claim self-sovereignty (rajasv). Every Baba’s service place is the yagya. Madhuban is often called Mahayagya (the Great Yagya).

हम ham

We.
(rustic form) I.

हर एक har ēk

Each, every.
Each one, everybody.

हठ haṭh

Stubbornness, insistence (esp. unreasonable insistence).
Crossness, sulks (of a child).
Firm promise, or resolve.
Force, violence.

हज़ार hazār

Thousand, 1000.

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.

इस समय is samay

At this time, now.

इसलिए isliē

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

ईश्वर īśhvar

God, Ruler, Master, Lord.

जगाना jagānā

To wake up, to awaken, to arouse, to rouse.
To make conscious or alert; to stimulate.
To kindle, to revive (as a flagging fire).

जैसा jaisā

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

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.

जानवर jānvar

An animal, a beast.

जप jap

Adoration by way of repeating passages from scriptures, sacred formulae or a deity's name, etc.

जास्ती jāstī

More. (often used as a comparison)

जीव आत्मा jīv ātmā

(Hinduism) The individual soul, the vital principle or spirit which is distinct from the supreme soul.
(Bābā) Living being: a soul (ātmā) in a living body (jīv).

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)

जीवनमुक्तिधाम jīvanmuktidhām

Abode of liberation in life (on Earth 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.

ज्योति jyōti

Light, flame, lustre.
Vision.

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 ?

कहलाना kahlānā

To cause to speak, to cause to say, to cause to tell; to call.
To be called, or named, or designated, to go by the name of; to be said to be.

कहना kahnā

Say.

कैसा kaisā

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

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.

कलंक लगाना kalaṅk lagānā

To brand, to stigmatize, to defame.

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.

कल्याण kalyāṇ

Welfare.

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.

काम चिता kām chitā

Funeral pyre of desire.

कपड़ा kapṛā

Cloth.
Clothing, clothes, dress, habit.

कर्म karm

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

करना karnā

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

कथा kathā

Story, tale, fable, narrative, religious discourse.

कौन kaun

interrogative pronoun. Who

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).

के लिए kē liē

For, for the sake of.

key

Key.

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.

खण्ड khaṇḍ

Piece, fragment, part, portion.
Division (of a house, or a country, or of the earth).
Subdivision, section (of a work), chapter.
Apartment (of a house, &c.).
Side, quarter.
District, province, region.

ख़त्म ḵẖatm

Ended, completed, concluded.

खुशी khuśhī

Joy, delight, happiness.

ख्याल khyāl

An idea, thought.
View, opinion.
One of the principal forms of modern Hindustani classical vocal music.

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.

कूटना kūṭnā

To pound, beat, bruise, crush.
To macerate, to thresh (corn, &c.)
To cudgel.

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.

लहर lahar

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

लहराना laharānā

To rise in waves (water), to ripple.
To wave (as foliage, crops).
To wave, to flap (a flag).
To wind (as a stream).
To undulate in movement (a snake).
To gust (as heat).
To be moved suddenly (the heart, by emotion).
To be wafted (fragrance).
To be radiant (the beauty of nature).
To cause to flutter, or to wave; to put out (a flag); to raise (a flag, standard). To raise delusive hopes in (a person); to excite, to tantalise.

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.

लेना lēnā

To take.

लेटना lēṭnā

To lie, to lie down, to repose, to recline.

liberate

Liberate.

लिए liē

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

लिखना likhnā

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

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).

महिमा mahimā

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

मैं maĩ

I. (personal pronoun)

मैं आत्मा हूँ maĩ ātmā hū̃

I am the soul.

माली mālī

The caste of gardeners.
A man of that caste.
A gardener, a florist.
(Bābā) He or she who makes souls blossom like flowers (role in particular of a soul in charge of a centre)

माना mānā

(it) Means, that is.

मनन manan

Meditation, contemplation, brooding, pondering or thinking deeply over something.

मनुष्य manuṣhya

A man, a human being.

मारा-मारी mārā-mārī

Mutual killing, mutual fight, bloody encounter.

मारना mārnā

To kill.
To beat, to belabour, to hit, to strike, to punish, to subdue.
To misappropriate, not to repay.
To chop off.
To win.
To turn ineffective.
To reduce to ashes.

मर्तबा martabā

Time, occasion, turn.
Position, office, rank, order.

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

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

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.

merciful

Merciful.

मिलाना milānā

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

मिलना milnā

To meet, to encounter, to be mixed, to be mingled, to unite, to merge, to tally, to conform, to obtain, to get, to acquire, to be acquired, to beget, to embrace, to form an alliance.

minute

Minute.

मीठा mīṭhā

Sweet, pleasant.
Sweetmeat, jaggery.

मीठे बच्चे mīṭhē bachchē

Sweet children.

मुझे याद करो mujhē yād karō

Remember Me.

मुक्ति mukti

Liberation, freedom; deliverance.
Final deliverance, salvation.

मुक्तिधाम muktidhām

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

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.

नहीं तो nahī̃ tō

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

नाम रूप nām rūp

Name and form, name and appearance.

नंगा, नगन naṅgā, nagan

Naked, nude, bare.
Leafless.
Shameless.

नशा naśhā

Intoxication, drunkenness.

नाटक nāṭak

Drama, play.

नया nayā

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

ने nē

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

निकलना nikalnā

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

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.

नींद nīnd

Sleep.

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.

निर्वाण nirvāṇ

Becoming extinguished; disappearance, extinction; dissolution, death.
(Hinduism) Final emancipation from matter and from the necessity for further transmigration, and reunion with the Supreme Spirit, eternal bliss.
(Buddhism and Jainism) Absolute extinction, annihilation.
(Bābā) Final emancipation from matter and reunion with the Supreme Soul in the incorporeal world of souls (the souls remaining close and separated from the Supreme Soul and not merged in Him).
(Bābā) Without voice, without music, beyond sound.

निर्वाणधाम nirvāṇdhām

Abode of final emancipation, abode of silence: the incorporeal world of souls (without sound and without movement).

निशानी niśhānī

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

निश्चय करना niśhchay karnā

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

number one

Number one.

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 शान्ति ōm śhānti

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

orphan

Orphan.

पहनना pahannā

To wear (as clothes).
To put on (as clothes, watch, ornaments, etc.)

पहले pahlē

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

पैगम्बर paigambar

'Message bearer', a prophet, A divine messenger.

पन pan

An affix which, added to substantives and adjectives, forms abstract substantives, denoting condition, state, time of life, occupation, &c., and corresponding to the English words which end in '-hood,' '-ship,' '-ness,' &c.

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.

परमात्मा paramātmā

Supreme Soul : Śiv and not Brahmā.

परमपिता parampitā

Supreme Father.

परन्तु parantu

But, however.

पढ़ाना paṛhānā

To teach, to instruct, to educate.

परिचय parichay

Introduction, acquaintance, familiarity.

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').

part

Part.

पार्ट बजाना part bajānā

To play one's part. When the soul incarnates, it becomes an actor and plays the part eternally inscribed within it.

पता patā

Address, whereabouts, information, knowledge.

पतित patit

Fallen, depraved.

पतित पावन patit pāvan

The Saviour of the fallen, the One who purify the sinful (epithet of the supreme being).

पावन pāvan

Holy, sacred, immaculate, pure.
A suffix denoting one who or that which purifies.

फल phal

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

फरमान pharmān

A royal edict, royal command, royal decree.

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.

powerful

Powerful.

प्रकार prakār

Manner, way.

प्रालब्ध prālabdh

Predestination, destiny, fortune, fate, lot, venture, chance.
(Bābā) Destiny resulting from actions performed in a previous birth (fruit of karma).

प्रश्न praśhna

Question, query, interrogation, interpellation, problem.

प्रातःमुरली prātaḥmurlī

Early morning Murlī.

प्रति prati

Towards.

प्रतिदिन pratidin

From day to day, day by day, every day, daily; always, continually.

प्रीत prīt

Pleased, happy.
Dear, beloved.
Kind, affectionate.

पूछना pūchhnā

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

पुनर्जन्म punarjanma

New or second birth.
The birth of new principles within, leading to a change of life and character, regeneration.
Future birth by transmigration, metempsychosis.

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.

पुरी purī

City, town.
Abode, habitation; palace; the body.
The city of Purī in Orissa (the head-quarters of the worship of Jagannāth).

पूरी pūrī

A thin cake of meal fried in ghī or oil.

पुरुषार्थ puruṣhārth

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

प्यार pyār

Love, affection, amour, amorous relationship.

प्यारा pyārā

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

रचता rachtā

Creator one who makes.

रहित rahit

Without, devoid of, bereft of.

रहना rahnā

To remain, to stay.

राजा rājā

King, monarch, prince.

राजाई rājāī

Kingship, royalty, rank or function of a king, sovereignty, princedom, kingly dignity or authority, supremacy, government, sway, rule, reign.

राज्य rājya

Kingdom, rule, reign, polity, the state.

रखना rakhnā

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

राम rām

Charming (God’s title).
(Hinduism) Ramchandra-the greatest of the ancient Indian kings of Solar dynasty and the hero of the great Indian epic—Ra:ma:yāṉ; God, an incarnation of Vishṉū.
(Bābā) The name of the first king of silver age.
(Bābā) A character from the Ramayana considered as an incarnation of God and symbolizing the forces of Good.

राम राज्य rām rājya

The rule of Rām. Golden rule. Just, equitable and ideal rule.
(Bābā) The kingdom of God. (in the golden age for gods and goddesses and established by God)

रस्म rasm

A ceremony, ritual.
Formality.
Custom, practice.

रास्ता rāstā

Road, way, path, street, lane.
Way, manner.

रात rāt

Night.

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.

रूह rūh

The soul, the spirit.

रूहानी rūhānī

Spiritual.

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.

रूपी rūpī

(suffix) Having the form of, of the shape of, similar to.

सब sab

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

सबका sabkā

(genitive case of sab) Of everyone.

सबको sabkō

sab + kō : everything, everyone.

सबसे sabsē

(superlative) Of all, the most.

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).

शादी śhādī

Marriage, wedding.

सहज sahaj

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

सहन sahan

Patient endurance, forbearance, tolerance.

सकना saknā

To can, to be able to.

साक्षात्कार sākṣhātkār

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

समझ samajh

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

समझना samajhnā

To understand.

समय samay

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

समझाना samjhānā

(Causative of samajhnā) To persuade, explain.

संन्यासी sannyāsī

One who abandons or resigns; one who has abandoned all worldly possessions and affections, an ascetic, a devotee.
A Brāhmaṇ of the fourth order or āśram, a religious mendicant.

शान्तिधाम śhāntidhām

Abode of Peace, Calmness, Rest, Silence.

सांवरा sāṅvarā

Dark-complexioned. (connotation of ugliness in northern India because light complexion is a criterion of beauty).
Title of a lover or husband; specifically title of Kr̥ṣṇa.
(Bābā) Blackened or soiled by vice. The condition of us all in the Iron Age (regardless of skin color).

सारा sārā

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

शरीर śharīr

Body.

सर्वव्यापी, सर्वव्यापक sarvavyāpī, sarvavyāpak

All-pervading, universal (in the Pantheistic sense): an epithet of the Supreme Being (attributed wrongly).

शास्त्र śhāstra

Scripture(s), a religious or scientific treatise, a composition of divine or secular authority.

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.

शायद śhāyad

Perhaps, probably, possibly.

scene

Scene.

से sē

से is used for denoting :

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

service

Service.

सिद्धि siddhi

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

सिखाना sikhānā

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

सिकीलधे sikīladhē

Persian word derived from the Sindhi word "sik" which means "very dear". Just like ordinary parents, after waiting a lot, have a lot of sik-sik (love) for the child at birth. Likewise after 5000 years, the children meet at the confluence, then there is a lot of love for the children.
(Bābā) Who disappear and then are found after a long time.

सिमरना simarnā

To remember, to mention (especially the name of God).

शिवबाबा śhivbābā

The Father Śiv.

slogan

Slogan.

स्मृति smr̥iti

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

सोझरा sōjharā

Light, brightness.

सोना sōnā

To sleep.

श्रेष्ठ śhrēṣhṭha

The best, good, excellent, superior.

श्रीकृष्ण śhrīkr̥iṣhṇa

The Divine Kṛiṣhṇa.

श्रीमत śhrīmat

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

सृष्टि sr̥iṣhṭi

Creation.
The world.

स्थान sthān

Place, spot, site.

स्थापना, स्थापन sthāpanā, sthāpan

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

सुख sukh

Happiness, pleasure, comfort, felicity, contentment.

सुख-दुःख sukh-duḥkh

Happiness and unhappiness. Pleasure and suffering. Joy and sorrow.

सुखधाम sukhdhām

Abode of Happiness.

सुखी sukhī

Happy, contented.

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.

sweet home

Sweet home.
(Bābā) śhāntidhām the incorporeal world.
(Bābā) satyug the world in golden age.

तक tak

To, upto, till, until, by.

ताकत tākat

Power, force, strength, might.

तकलीफ taklīph

Trouble, distress.
Ailment.

तप tap

Devout austerity, asceticism, self-mortification, penance.

तपना tapnā

To be heated.
To burn with pain or grief.
To practise self-mortification.

तरफ taraph

Side, direction.
Towards.

तरस taras

Pity, compassion, mercy.

ठहरना ṭhaharnā

To stay, to wait.
To stop, to halt, to pause.
To stabilise.

ठहराना ṭhahrānā

To cause to stand or stay, to stop.
To ascertain, to establish, to prove, to demonstrate, to conclude, to consider.
To ascribe, to appropriate.
To fix, to settle, to decide, to determine, to decree, to judge, to adjudge, to fix on, to appoint, to constitute.

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.

थोड़ेही thōṛēhī

Little indeed, in no part or degree, not at all, in no wise, never.

time

Time.

तीर्थ tīrth

A bathing place, a shrine or sacred place of pilgrimage (as Benares, &c.; especially particular spots along the course of sacred streams, as the Ganges, &c.). Pilgrimage.

तो tō

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

trial

Trial.

तुम tum

You (between equals).

तुम जानते हो tum jāntē hō

You know.

तूफान tūphān

Storm, tempest, hurricane, typhoon.

उन्नति unnati

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

उठना uṭhnā

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

उत्तर uttar

Answer, reply.
North.
Later.

वह vah

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

वहां vahā̃

There.

वही vahī

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

वैद्य vaidya

An Ayurvedic physician.

वाला vālā

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

वापिस जाना vāpis jānā

To go back, to return, to retire, to recede.

वापिस, वापस vāpis, vāpas

Back, back again.

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.

वर्ष varṣh

Year.

वर्सा varsā

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

वस्त्र vastra

Cloth(es), textile, fibre, raiment.

विधिपूर्वक vidhipūrvak

According to rule, agreeably to prescribed law.

विघ्न vighna

Interruption, interference, meddling, obstacle, disturbance.

विजय vijay

Conquest, victory, triumph.

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.

विकर्म विनाश होंगे vikarma vināśh hōṅgē

Bad actions will disappear, bad karma will disappear.

विनाश होना vināśh hōnā

To disappear, to be destroyed.

विनाश काले विपरीत बुद्धि vināśh kālē viparīt buddhi

'At the time of destruction, contrary mind'.
As one’s doom approaches, the person’s intellect works against his best interest.

विनाशी vināśhī

Perishable, destructible.

विपरीत बुद्धि viparīt buddhi

Contrary (intellectual) mind, opposite (intellectual) mind.

विशालबुद्धि viśhālbuddhi

Huge mind: A mind that has room for all knowledge.

वृद्ध vr̥iddh

Old, elderly, aged.
An aged man, old man.

वृद्धि vr̥iddhi

Increase, increment, rise, growth, progress, enlargement, augmentation, enhancement, magnification.

व्यवहार vyavahār

Behaviour.
Dealings, treatment.
Transaction.
Practice.
Usage, use.
Application.

way

Way.

या yā

Or, either.

याद yād

Remembrance, recollection, memory.

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-प्यार yād-pyār

Yād and pyār: remembrance and love, remembrance and affection.

यज्ञ yagya

Sometimes Baba also says that it is the imperishable sacrificial fire of knowledge created by God, Rudra, in which a horse is sacrificed for attaining the kingdom.
The word “yagya” stands for “sacrificial fire” Yagyas are normally conducted for protection against natural calamities, wars, for rain-making etc.
Ashwamedh yagya (where a horse is sacrificed) is mentioned in ancient scriptures A ritual described there is performed by a king (raja) who strives for becoming a great king, or an emperor (maharaja) Before the yagya is conducted, a horse is set loose to roam around wherever it chooses for a few months or a year If the inhabitants of the lands that the horse crosses let it cross their territory without any obstruction, it means they accept the raja’s rule over them In this way the raja becomes a chakravarti raja (literally - the ruler of the entire globe).
In Baba’s murlis the word “yagya” often stands for this Godly University, or this system of giving the knowledge and providing God’s sustenance, created by Baba at the Confluence age Every Baba’s service place is the yagya. Madhuban is often called Mahayagya (the Great Yagya).

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.

योगबल yōgbal

Power of Yōg.

युक्ति yukti

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

ज़रूर zarūr

Certainly, undoubtedly, positively, without fail.