Daily Murli for Friday 22 December 2023

अब ab

Now.

अभ्यास abhyās

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

अच्छा achchhā

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

आधा ādhā

Half.

आधार ādhār

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

अधिकारी adhikārī

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

आदि ādi

Etcetera.
Beginning.
Early, initial, primordial.

आदि देव ādi dēv

The first deity, the first god, the primordial god Brahmā.
(Bābā) Prajapita Brahma (the primordial being from whom everything began, worshipped as a God but in fact a simple human being in whom God is incarnated)

अदली बदली adlī badlī

Exchange, barter, interchange, alteration, mutation, substitution, transfer, transmutation, equivalent, anything given in exchange.
Mutatis mutandis.
Vice versa.

आग लगना āg lagnā

To be set on fire, to be on fire, to catch fire, to burn, to be hot.
To smart (as a wound).
To burn with rage, indignation, envy, jealousy, &c., to be enraged or incensed; to be consumed with love, or grief.

आगे āgē

Ahead, in front of, before; in future.

ऐसा aisā

Such, of this type.

आजकल ājkal

Nowadays, these days.

अकाले akālē

Untimely, unseasonable, inopportune, premature.

अकाले मृत्यु akālē mr̥iityu

Premature death.

आकारी, आकार ākārī, ākār

Possessing a form.
(Bābā) Possessing a non-physical form but which can be perceived.
(Bābā) Having the angelic form.
(Bābā) Subtle, not physical.

अखण्ड akhaṇḍ

The whole, complete, undivided, indivisible.

अक्षर akṣhar

Letter of the alphabet, character, syllable (in Hindi, each character is a syllable).
Word.

अलग alag

Different, separate, apart, distinct.

आना ānā

To come.

अन्धियारा, अंधेरा andhiyārā, andhērā

Dark.
Darkness.

अनुभव anubhav

Experience.

आप āp

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

आपस में āpas mē̃

Among themselves, with each other or one another, together, mutually, in common, in concert.

अपना apnā

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

अपनाना apnānā

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

अर्थात् arthāt

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

असम्भव asambhav

Impossible.
Inconceivable; improbable.

अटल aṭal

Firm, irrevocable, resolute, unwavering, steadfast.

अथवा athavā

Or.
That is.

आत्मा ātmā

The soul, the spirit, the self.

और aur

And.
Else.
Other.

अविनाशी avināśhī

Indestructible, imperishable, everlasting, immortal, entire.

बाबा bābā

Father.

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.

बहुकाल bahukāl

For a long time.

बहुत bahut

Many, much.
Very.

बैठना baiṭhnā

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

बजाना bajānā

To play (an instrument, a recording).
To strike (a bell, gong); to beat (a drum).
To clap (the hands).

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.

बांधना bāndhnā

To tie, to fasten, to bind, to pack, to wrap around.

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.

बड़ा baṛā

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

बढ़ाना baṛhānā

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

बात bāt

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

बताना batānā

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

बतलाना batlānā

To explain, tell.
To talk, converse.

be

To be.

बेहद bēhad

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

बेकायदा bēkāydā

Irregular, illegal, contrary to rule, contrary to law.

बेटी bēṭī

Daughter.

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.

भगवानुवाच bhagvānuvāch

Bhagvān says, God says. (expression repeated in the Gītā)

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.

भल bhal

Even if, even though.

भला bhalā

Gentle, noble, good.
Well-being; good.

भंभोर bhambhōr

Uproar, alarm; panic.
A turbulent crowd.
(Bābā) The world when it has become total turmoil.

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)

भरना bharnā

To fill, to refill.

भटकाना bhaṭkānā

To cause to stray or wander, to lead astray, to mislead, to bewilder, to baulk, to deceive.

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.

भी bhī

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

भोगना bhōgnā

To enjoy, to suffer, to undergo, to derive sexual pleasure, to experience (pleasure or pain).
(Bābā) To experience happiness and unhappiness according to the quality of the karma accomplished. In paradise we experience happiness, the fruit of good karma accomplished at the age of encounter. In hell, we experience misfortune as a result of bad karma accomplished.
(Bābā) To enjoy and seek all the pleasures brought by the sense organs. It is experiencing illusory happiness because the karma accomplished is bad and therefore the result of misfortune.

भ्रकुटी के बीच bhrakuṭī kē bīch

Middle of the eyebrows.

बिजली bijlī

Electricity.

बिल्ली billī

Female cat, cat (in general).

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).

biography

Biography. The history of a person's life.

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 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.

ब्रह्मा मुख वंशावली brahmā mukh vaṅśhāvalī

The oral line of Brahmā.

ब्रह्माकुमारी brahmākumārī

Daughter of Brahmā.

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.

बुद्धियोग buddhiyōg

Buddhi Yoga. The remembrance of the mind. The yoga of the intellect Baba says that the yoga is the remembrance of the Supreme, and to remember is a task of the intellect.

बुझना bujhnā

To be extinguished, to be quenched, to be put out, to be dejected, to be in low spirits.

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.

चन्द्रवंशी chandravanśhī

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

चौपड़ chaupaṛ

A game played with oblong dice (3 in number) or with kauṛi:s (on a cloth or board having two transverse bars in the form of a cross).
The board or the cloth (as mentioned above).

centre

Centre.

छोड़ना chhōṛnā

To leave.
To abandon.
To release.

चीज़ chīz

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

दादा dādā

A paternal grandfather.
An elder brother; a term of veneration or respect addressed to Brāhmans.

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.

दाना dānā

Grain, corn, food.
Grain, seed, berry, chick-pea, gram.
Speck, bead, pimple, pustule.

दाता dātā

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

देह dēh

Body.

देखना dēkhnā

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

देना dēnā

To give.

देरी dērī

Delay, lag.

देश dēśh

Country, land, native home, region, space.

देवी-देवता dēvī-dēvtā

Goddess and god.

देवता dēvtā

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

धारणा के लिए मुख्य सार dhārṇā kē liē mukhya sār

Essence for dhārṇā.

ढेर ḍhēr

Heap, pile, accumulation, bulk, lot.
Plenty, abundant.

दिखना dikhnā

To be seen, to appear, to seem.

दिल dil

Heart, courage, spirit, will.

दिन din

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

दूध dūdh

Milk; juicy substance of certain plants.

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.

दूर dūr

Distant, remote.
Removed (as a difficulty).
(prefix) Distant; tele-.
Far, far off.
Distance, remoteness.

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).

एकदम ēkdam

In a breath, in a moment; (all) at once; immediately.
Quite, completely.

गाना gānā

To sing, to chant.
A song.

गर्भ garbh

The womb.
Pregnancy.
Foetus.
The interior.

गऊ gaū

A cow.
A bull, an ox, a bullock.

घड़ी ghaṛī

A watch, time-piece.
Moment.
An hour.

घी ghī

Clarified butter (or butter which has been boiled gently and strained and allowed to cool; it is much used in cooking, and is highly esteemed by Hindūs both in food and for religious uses).

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.

good morning

Good morning.

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.

guide

Guide.

गुरू gurū

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

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.

हजूर hajūr

Your honour, your majesty, your lordship !
Sir !
Gracious presence.

हम ham

We.
(rustic form) I.

हटाना haṭānā

To take away, to remove.
To move out of the way, put back, put aside.
To cause to recede, to drive back or off, to repel.
To put off, to postpone.

हाज़िर hāzir

Present, ready.

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.

in

In.

ईर्ष्या īrṣhyā

Jealousy.

इसलिए isliē

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

ईश्वर īśhvar

God, Ruler, Master, Lord.

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.

जगदम्बा jagadambā

'The mother of the world,' a name of Durgā or Pārvati.
(Bābā) A name given to Mama.

जहाँ jahā̃

Where, wherever.

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.

जड़जड़ीभूत jaṛjaṛībhūt

Void of life, cold, immobile, inanimate and rendered inert.

जयन्ती jayantī

A jubilee, a birthday celebration, a flag, a banner.
(जयन्ति jayanti conjugated form in Sanskrit of the verb ji "to conquer") They conquer.

झूठ jhūṭh

Falsehood, lie, untruth.
False, untrue, incorrect.

झूठा jhūṭhā

False, fictitious, untrue, sham, mock, feigned.

जी jī

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

जीना jīnā

To live, to be alive.

जितना jitnā

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

जो jō

Relative pronoun (without distinction of gender or number): who, that, which, what. Can be coupled with vah creating an identity relationship between the two terms of two propositions in the sentence.

जोड़ना jōṛnā

To add, to sum up.
To link, to unite, to connect, to attach, to bind.
To collect, to accumulate, to assemble.
To weld.
To cement.
To set (a bone etc.).
To save up.

जुदा judā

Separate, disunited.

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.

कब्रिस्तान kabristān

Burying ground, graveyard, cemetery.

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.

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.

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 चिता kām chitā

Funeral pyre of desire.

कन्या kanyā

A girl, a virgin.
A daughter.
The sign Virgo.
A name of Durgā.

कारण kāraṇ

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

करना karnā

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

कटना kaṭnā

To be cut, to be wounded (by a blade etc.), to die in battle, to be destroyed.
To pass away time.
To complete (a journey, etc.)
To be ashamed.
To be disconnected, to be deprived of, to be made to part with.

कौन kaun

interrogative pronoun. Who

कौन सा kaun sā

Interrogative adjective and pronoun : which.

के आगे kē āgē

In front of, ahead of, before.

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.

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.

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.

कुछ kuchh

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

कुख वंशावली kukh vaṅśhāvalī

Lineage through the womb, genealogical lineage, lineage.

कुमार kumār

(hindi) Bachelor.
Boy, young man, son.
(Bābā) Chaste and unmarried boy (apparently applies to all ages).

कुमारी kumārī

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

क्या kyā

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

क्यों kyō̃

Why.

क्योंकि kyōṅki

Because, since.

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.

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.

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.

liberate

Liberate.

लिए liē

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

loan

Loan.

low

Low.

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).

महावीर mahāvīr

Having tremendous valour, extremely valorous, extremely gallant.
A great hero.
Name of the last or twenty-fourth Arhat (the last and most celebrated Jain teacher of the present age; supposed to have flourished in the province of Behār in the sixth century before the Christian era).
(epithet) Hanuman.

मैं maĩ

I. (personal pronoun)

मकान makān

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

male

Male.

मामेकम् याद करो māmēkam yād karō

Just think of Me.

मनुष्य manuṣhya

A man, a human being.

मनुष्य सृष्टि manuṣhya sr̥iṣhṭi

Creation of human beings.
Human world.

मस्तक mastak

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

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).

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)

मेला mēlā

A large concourse of people for religious or commercial purposes, a fair.

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.

मीठा mīṭhā

Sweet, pleasant.
Sweetmeat, jaggery.

मीठे बच्चे mīṭhē bachchē

Sweet children.

most beloved

The most beloved.

मुख mukh

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

मुख वंशावली mukh vaṅśhāvalī

Oral line, oral lineage, lineage by the mouth.

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.

नदी nadī

River.

नहीं nahī̃

No.
Not.

नहीं तो nahī̃ tō

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

नाम nām

Name.

नर्क nark

Hell (the place of torment, as distinguished from pātāl, 'the lower regions' ; narak includes a number of places of torture of various descriptions, generally said to be twenty-one in number).

नर्कवासी narkvāsī

Inhabitant of hell.

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.

नींद nīnd

Sleep.

निश्चय niśhchay

Confidence, faith, certainty.

number

Number.

number one

Number one.

occupation

Occupation.

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)

पाग, पगड़ी pāg, pagṛī

A turban.
A mark or token of distinction, (hence) honour, distinction, respect, dignity.

पहचानना pahchānnā

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

पहले pahlē

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

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.

परमात्मा paramātmā

Supreme Soul : Śiv and not Brahmā.

परमपिता parampitā

Supreme Father.

परन्तु parantu

But, however.

पराया parāyā

Pertaining or belonging to another, not one's own, alien, foreign.

परिस्तान paristān

A fairyland.
An enchanting world of beauty.
(Bābā) The kingdom of fairies which is the kingdom of divinities (a divinity is beautiful like a fairy): Satyug.

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.

pass

To pass.

pass with honour

To pass with honour.

पता patā

Address, whereabouts, information, knowledge.

पति pati

Husband, master.

पतित patit

Fallen, depraved.

पतित पावन patit pāvan

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

पऊंबारा paūmbārā

The ace and the twelve in dice.
(fig.) Good luck, good fortune, success.

पावन pāvan

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

फिर phir

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

फिर से phir sē

Anew, afresh.

फिरना phirnā

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

पोत्रा pōtrā

Son of a son, grandson.

पोत्री pōtrī

Granddaughter.

practical

Practical.

practice

Practice.

प्रजा prajā

Subjects, public, people.

प्रजापिता ब्रह्मा prajāpitā brahmā

(Hinduism prajāpati Brahmā) Brahmā the Father of creatures.
(Bābā) Brahmā the Father of humanity.

प्रमाण pramāṇ

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

प्राण prāṇ

Life.
Vital breath, vital air.
Vitality.
Soul, spirit.
Sweetheart.
(in Gram.) Aspiration in the articulation of letters.

प्राप्त prāpt

Got, obtained; procured, acquired.

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).

प्रश्न praśhna

Question, query, interrogation, interpellation, problem.

प्रातःमुरली prātaḥmurlī

Early morning Murlī.

प्रति prati

Towards.

प्रेम prēm

Love, affection, attachment.

पूछना pūchhnā

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

पुराना purānā

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

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.

रचयिता rachayitā

Creator, composer, author.

race

Race.

रचना rachnā

Composition, artistic creation; structure.
(Bābā) Creation.

रचता rachtā

Creator one who makes.

रहना rahnā

To remain, to stay.

राजा रानी rājā rānī

King and queen.
Prince and princess.

राज्य rājya

Kingdom, rule, reign, polity, the state.

राजयोग rājyōg

'Yoga of the king', Raja Yoga, the highest, kingly yoga. The union of the soul with the Supreme Soul. The yoga that makes us the rulers of the self and the kings of the world.

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.

रमणीक ramaṇīk

Beautiful, pretty, charming, winsome, attractive.

रात-दिन rāt-din

Night and day.
Continually.

रावण rāvaṇ

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

रावण राज्य rāvaṇ rājya

Kingdom of Rāvaṇ.

record

Record.
(Bābā) Disc of the Great Drama where everything is already recorded and is replayed identically every 5000 years.

रीति rīti

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

रोना rōnā

To weep, to cry, to bewail, to lament.

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.

सब कुछ sab kuchh

Everything, all.

सबको sabkō

sab + kō : everything, everyone.

सबसे sabsē

(superlative) Of all, the most.

सच खण्ड sach khaṇḍ

(Sikhism) The highest spiritual level where the individual experiences union with God.
Region of truth.

सच्चा sachchā

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

सदा sadā

Always, perpetually, continually, ever.

सहज sahaj

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

सहित sahit

With, together with, along with, accompanied by.

साकार, साकारी sākār, sākārī

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

सकना saknā

To can, to be able to.

साक्षात्कार sākṣhātkār

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

समाचार samāchār

News; information.

समझना samajhnā

To understand.

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).

सम्प्रदाय sampradāy

Tradition, established doctrine (transmitted from one teacher to another), traditional belief or usage.
A peculiar doctrine and exclusive worship of one divinity, any peculiar or schismatical system of religious teaching, schism.
A community, sect, band, company.

शंकर śhaṅkar

(Hinduism) 'Causing happiness', an epithet of Śiv or Mahādev.
(Hinduism) The annihilator of the universe.
(Hinduism) Name of a celebrated teacher of the Vedānta philosophy (he was a man of remarkable learning and sanctity; and is supposed to have lived between A.D. 650 and 740; but according to tradition he flourished 200 B.C.: he is said to have eradicated the Jain sect).
(Bābā) The subtle divinity representing destruction, part of the trimurti with Brahma and Vishnu.

सन्तान santān

Offspring, children, descendants.
A son or daughter.

साफ sāph

Clean, clear, undefiled.
Plain, frank, categorical, forthright, straightforward.
Processed, refined.
Distinct.
Unscathed.
Openly, frankly, plainly, fully, clearly, cleverly.

सारा sārā

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

सरस्वती sarasvatī

(Hinduism) The wife of Brahmā, the goddess of speech and eloquence, the patroness of music and the arts, and the inventress of the Sanskrit language and the Devanāgarī character.
(Bābā) Goddess of knowledge. Mama is named Jagadamba Saraswati (World Mother) by Shiv Baba.
The river Sarsūtī (it rises in the mountains bounding the north-east part of the province of Dehlī, and, running in a south-westerly direction, becomes lost in the sands of the great desert; according to the Hindūs, however, the river only disappears in this place, and, continuing its course underground, joins the Ganges and Jamna at the junction at Allahabad)
A river (generally).
Speech, eloquence.
An excellent woman, an eloquent or an inventive woman.
A name of Durgā.
A cow.

शरीर śharīr

Body.

सर्व sarv

All ; whole, entire, complete.

शास्त्र śhāstra

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

सतगुरू satgurū

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

साथ sāth

With, together, along with.
Company, association.

सतो, सतोगुण satō, satōguṇ

Virtue, the quality of purity and goodness.
(Bābā) Pure. Having the purity of the Silver Age.

सतोप्रधान satōpradhān

(Bābā) The highest level of purity, fullness and perfection; stage of golden age.

सत्य नारायण की कथा satya nārāyaṇ kī kathā

A story recounting the acts of kindness of Satya Nārāyaṇ read out during the fast observed in honour of the deity.

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)

see

See.

सेवा sēvā

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

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.

सीधा sīdhā

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

सिखाना sikhānā

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

सिखलाना sikhlānā

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.

सितारा sitārā

A star.
Fortune, fate, destiny.

शिव śhiv

Beneficial, favorable, auspicious, salutary.
Well-being, prosperity, happiness.
(Hinduism) Confused with Śhaṅkar. Name of the third god of the Hindū triad, the Deity in the character of producer or destroyer (Śhiv's most distinctive function is to preside over the dissolution of the world at the end of each aeon in order that it may be created anew), or Time personified.
(Hinduism) The phallic or pillar emblem of Śhiv.
(Bābā) The name of the Supreme Being The Auspicious, the Good, the Well-being, etc. who does his work of Creation, Sustainment and Destruction of the World through the trimūrti Brahmā, Viṣhṇu and Śhaṅkar three subtle deities created by God in the subtle world.
(Bābā) The Seed of the Human World Tree.
(Bābā) The Point. He is the Supreme Soul and therefore has the shape of a point like any soul. As He is incorporeal, it was represented with the shape of a pillar or, more anciently, an egg. The degradation of devotion has led Hindus to see it as a phallic representation symbolizing the Creator role of God and others to transgress the rules of Hindu conduct (left path tantra) where sexuality is permitted and revered as a divine activity.

शिवबाबा śhivbābā

The Father Śiv.

slogan

Slogan.

सोना sōnā

To sleep.

श्री śhrī

An honorific adjective prefixed to male names; Mr. Wealth, treasure, prosperity. Lustre, brilliance, radiance, splendour.
Myth. n.p. of Śhrī “Fortune”, epith. of Lakṣhmī, goddess of prosperity, wife-śhakti of Viṣhṇu; she is said to come from the churning of the primordial sea of milk, or else the daughter of Bhṛigu and Kyāti; she is the patroness of commerce.
(before proper nouns or books) excellent, splendid, honorable, eminent, famous, famous, illustrious, holy, revered, sacred.

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.

star

Star.

स्थापना, स्थापन sthāpanā, sthāpan

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

स्थूलवतन sthūlvatan

Tangible or material homeland.

स्त्री strī

Woman, wife.

शूद्र śhūdra

Member of the fourth or servile caste of the Hindūs (whose only business, according to Manu, was to serve the three higher castes; he is fabled to have sprung from the feet of Brahmā).
(Bābā) Human beings in the Iron Age are all of this social class.

सूक्ष्मवतन sūkṣhmavatan

Subtle homeland.

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.

शुरू śhurū

Beginning, commencement.

सूर्यवंशी sūryavanśhī

The one belonging to the solar dynasty or race.
(Bābā) A descendant of the solar lineage (lineage of golden age deities).

स्वर्ग svarg

Paradise, heaven, abode of gods : Earth or Bharat in the Golden Age.

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.

तब tab

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

तबदीली tabdīlī

Change, alteration.
Transfer.

तन tan

Body.

तथा tathā

And.
So.

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.

थोड़ेही thōṛēhī

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

तो tō

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

तोड़ tōṛ

(prob. corr. from A. taurāt = Old Testament, Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible), or Torah for Jews), Custom, law, rule, authority, order, institute, regulation, enactment.

तोड़ना tōṛnā

To break, to violate, to fracture, to pluck, to disband, to twist, to demolish, to snap.
To change (into coins or currency notes of smaller denomination).
To reduce.
To win over, to cause to defect.

तुम tum

You (between equals).

तुम जानते हो tum jāntē hō

You know.

तूफान tūphān

Storm, tempest, hurricane, typhoon.

टूटना ṭūṭnā

To break, to be broken, to be fractured, to be shattered.
To have twitching pain.
To be on the wane.
To be dissolved.
To fail.

उलफ़त ulfat

Love, attachment.

उतरना utarnā

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

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).

वहां vahā̃

There.

वही vahī

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

वाला vālā

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

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.

वर्ण varṇ

Colour; quality (of gold, as shown by its mark on a touchstone).
Class, type, kind; race.
Any of the four classes into which Indo-Aryan society was early divided, viz. brāhmaṇ, kṣhatriya, vaiśhya and śhūdra.
(in comp.) Caste.
Form, aspect; manner of dress; theatrical costume.
Letter (of an alphabet, a syllabary), sound, syllable.
(Bābā) One of the five social classes brāhmaṇ (confluence age), dēvtā (golden age), kṣhatriya (silver age), vaiśhya (copper age) and śhūdra (iron age).

वर्सा varsā

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

वासी vāsī

A dweller, an inhabitant.

विनाश होना vināśh hōnā

To disappear, to be destroyed.

विष्णु viṣhṇu

The Preserver of the world who adds himself to the Creator Brahmā and the Destroyer Śaṅkar (confused with Śiv the Supreme Being in Hinduism) to form the trimūrti.
(Bābā) Four-armed deity. A symbol of harmony of masculine and feminine qualities in a perfect person. A symbol of pure family path, a symbol of perfect couple.

व्यवहार vyavahār

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

way

Way.

wonder

Wonder.

wonderful

Wonderful.

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.

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.

यथा yathā

In which manner, as, like as, like, according to.
Thus, so.
As is right or proper; fitly, suitably.

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).

ज़रूर zarūr

Certainly, undoubtedly, positively, without fail.