Mamma's Murli - 227

अब ab

Now.

अभ्यास abhyās

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

आबू ābū

Mount Abu is a hill station in the Aravalli Range in the Sirohi district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The mountain forms a rocky plateau 22 km long by 9 km wide. The highest peak on the mountain is Guru Shikhar at 1,722 m (5,650 ft) above sea level. It is referred to as 'an oasis in the desert' as its heights are home to rivers, lakes, waterfalls and evergreen forests. It is also home to numerous Hindu and Jain temples. The nearest train station is Abu Road railway station 28 km away. It is also the Seat of the Brahma Kumaris.

अच्छा achchhā

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

आदत ādat

Habit.

आधार ādhār

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

अधिकार adhikār

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

आदि ādi

Etcetera.
Beginning.
Early, initial, primordial.

अगर agar

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

आगे āgē

Ahead, in front of, before; in future.

ऐसा aisā

Such, of this type.

ऐसे नहीं aisē nahī̃

'not so', Do not believe.

आज āj

Today.

अकेला akēlā

Single, lonely, lonesome, solitary.

अलग alag

Different, separate, apart, distinct.

आना ānā

To come.

आनंद ānand

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

अन्त ant

End.

अनुभव anubhav

Experience.

आप āp

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

अपन apan

(regional) I.

आपस āpas

Each other, one another.
Fellowship, kindred.

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.

आराम ārām

Rest, comfort, relief.

अरे arē

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

अर्थ arth

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

असर asar

Effect.
Influence, impression.

आठ āṭh

Eight.

अथवा athavā

Or.
That is.

आत्मा ātmā

The soul, the spirit, the self.

attention

Attention.

और aur

And.
Else.
Other.

और कोई aur kōī

Someone else, anyone else.

अवस्था avasthā

Condition, state, age, stage, phase.

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.

बहाना bahānā

A pretext, pretence, an excuse, make believe.
To cause to flow, to cause to blow, to set afloat.
To squander, to ruin, to destroy.

बाहर bāhar

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

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.

बलिहार, बलिहारी balihār, balihārī

Oblation, offering, sacrifice, victim.
The offering of a portion of the daily meal of ghī, grain, and rice, &c. to all creatures of every description (i.e. to gods, semi-divine beings, men, animals, and even inanimate objects).

ball

Ball.

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).

बनवाना banvānā

(double causative of bannā) To cause to be made, constructed, or prepared, &c.; to have or get (a thing) made, &c.
To make, construct, &c. ( = banānā).

बाप bāp

Father.

बाप कहते हैं bāp kahtē haĩ

The Father says.

बड़ा baṛā

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

बरसना barasnā

To rain, to fall in showers.

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.

बतलाना batlānā

To explain, tell.
To talk, converse.

be

To be.

बेहद का bēhad kā

Limitless, unlimited, unbounded.

बेड़ा bēṛā

Raft, float.
Boat.
Fleet (of boats or ships).
Timber formed into a raft to be brought down a river.

best

Best.

बेटा bēṭā

A son.

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.

भाई bhāī

Brother.

भक्ति मार्ग bhakti mārg

The path of Bhakti, the path of devotion (one of the three paths prescribed for the achievement of human salvation; the other two being gyān and yōg).
(Bābā) All paths aspiring to liberation other than that the path God teaches. (which therefore fail in the liberation of the soul).

भला bhalā

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

भाना bhānā

To be liked.
To be agreeable, to be pleasing, to be appealing.

भट्ठी bhaṭṭhī

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

भविष्य bhaviṣhya

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

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.

भूल bhūl

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

भूलना bhūlnā

To forget.

बीच bīch

Middle, centre.

बिचारा bichārā

Poor, helpless.

बीज bīj

Seed, kernel. Source, origin, primary cause.

बीमार bīmār

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

बीमारी bīmārī

Illness, sickness, disease, ailment.

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).

boarding

Boarding. A school equipped with residential rooms where students live there instead of staying in their own homes, providing both food and lodging. Baba established a boarding school in Sindh, Hyderabad, where Dadis and other children pursued both worldly (lokik) and spiritual (alokik) studies;

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.

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.

busy

Busy.

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.

चलना chalnā

Continue.

चालना chālnā

To drive, to impel.
To transport, to convey; to remove.
To perform; to direct; to instigate.
To shake; to sift; to winnow.

चालू chālū

Current, in force, continuing, in progress.
In working order, active, on, available.
Frequented, busy.

चप्पल chappal

A sandal, a slipper (a flip-flop).

चार chār

Four.

catch

Catch.

centre

Centre.

certificate

A certificate.

छः chhaḥ

Six, 6.

charge

Charge.

छिपाना chhipānā

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

छोड़ना chhōṛnā

To leave.
To abandon.
To release.

छोटा chhōṭā

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

छूटना chhūṭnā

To be left behind or out, to lag.
To be dismissed, discharged or released.
To get rid of.
To be abandoned.

छुट्टी chhuṭṭī

Permission.
Leave, holiday, furlough.

चीज़ chīz

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

class

Class.

clean

Clean.

connection

Connection.

court

Court.

दादा dādā

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

दरकार darkār

Necessity, need.
Necessary, needed.

daughter

Daughter.

देख-रेख dēkh-rēkh

Supervision, guidance, care.

देखना dēkhnā

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

देना dēnā

To give.

देवी dēvī

The Goddess.
A goddess.
A consort of a god: esp. Durgā (wife of Śiva in Hinduism).
A lady.

देवता dēvtā

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

देवता बनना dēvtā bannā

To become a divinity.

धनधा dhandhā

Vocation, occupation, business, work.

ढंग ḍhaṅg

Manner, method, mode, way.
Demeanour.
Tact.

धारण करना dhāraṇ karnā

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

धारणा dhārṇā

Inculcation of the knowledge and virtues of the Supreme in our practical life.

diary

Diary.
(Bābā) Diary in which one writes down one's times of remembrance of each day (chart) seen as an income that one accumulates.

दिखना dikhnā

To be seen, to appear, to seem.

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).

direct

Direct.

direction

Direction.

disturb

To Disturb.

दो dō

Two, 2.

doctor

Doctor.

double

Double.

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.

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.

easy

Easy.

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).

everything

Everything.

फ़र्ज farj

Duty, obligation.

father

Father.

फ़ायदा fāydā

Advantage, gain, profit, benefit, utility, use, good result.

feel

To feel.

feeling

Feeling.

female

Female.

first

First.

fresh

Fresh.

गाली gālī

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

गर्मी garmī

Heat, warmth.
Summer.
Passion.
Anger, violence.
Ardour.
Syphilis.

गति gati

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

घर ghar

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

घूमना ghūmnā

To take a walk, to stroll, to wander, to gyrate, to revolve, to whirl, to turn, to return, to roll, to spin, to waggle.

गिरना girnā

To fall.

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.

godly

Godly.

गोला gōlā

A ball.
Sphere, globe.
Cannon-ball, bomb shell.
(Bābā) The picture of World cycle.

good morning

Good morning.

गुप्त gupt

Hidden, secret, latent, confidential.

गुरू gurū

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

ज्ञान gyān

Knowledge directly taught by God.

हां hā̃

Yes, yea.

हद had

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

हाल hāl

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

hall

Hall.

हम ham

We.
(rustic form) I.

हानि hāni

Loss, damage, detriment, harm.

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).

हाथ उठाना hāth uṭhānā

To raise your hand.

heaven

Heaven.
(Bābā) Paradise on Earth in the golden age.

ही hī

Emphatic particle with a sense of exclusion : only.

हिसाब hisāb

Arithmetic, account, calculation, rate.
Manner, custom.
(Bābā) Account.

होना hōnā

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

I am

I am (equivalent of Om).

I am soul

I am a soul. I am the soul.

इच्छा ichchhā

Wish, desire, will.

इधर idhar

Here, hither, on this side, this way.

इधर उधर idhar udhar

Here and there.

इकट्ठा ikaṭṭhā

Collected, gathered.
Together, in one lot.

इलाज ilāj

Medical treatment; a medicine, remedy, cure.

in

In.

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.

जहाँ jahā̃

Where, wherever.

जैसा jaisā

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

जल्दी jaldī

Hurry, haste.
Quickly, urgently, immediately.

जाना jānā

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

जन्मना janamnā

To be born.

जांच jāñch

Examination, trial, assay, proof.
Appraisement, estimate.
Proximate valuation.

जांचना jāñchnā

To investigate, to verify, to test, to evaluate.

जन्म janm

Birth, origin, genesis.
Life, existence.

जानना jānnā

To know, to become aware of, to perceive.

जरूरत jarūrat

Necessity, importance.
Need, requirement.

झूठा jhūṭhā

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

जिस्म jism

Body.

जिस्मानी jismānī

Physical, bodily.

जितना jitnā

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

जीवन jīvan

Life, animation, existence.

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.

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.

कच्चा kachchā

Uncooked, unboiled, raw, unripe, green.
Crude, incomplete, unfinished, rough, imperfect, immature.
Inauthentic, doubtful.
Vague.
Weak.
Built of mud-bricks.
Provisional.
Not fast (as sleep, colour).

कहाँ kahā̃

Interrogative pronominal adverb : Where ?

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.

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 काज kām kāj

Work, occupation, business, affairs.

काफी kāphī

Enough, sufficient, adequate.

कपड़ा kapṛā

Cloth.
Clothing, clothes, dress, habit.

कराची karāchī

Karachi (a city, the provincial capital of Sindh, Pakistan).

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.

कर्मयोगी karmyōgī

Yōgī in action. One who remembers God while acting.

करना karnā

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

कार्य kārya

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

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.

कायदा kāydā

A rule, regulation, law, ordinance.
Regularity.

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".

के ऊपर kē ūpar

On, upon.
Above.

key

Key.

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.

खड़ा khaṛā

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

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.

खिलाना khilānā

To feed.

खिलना khilnā

To blossom, to bloom.

खुश khuśh

Happy, pleased.
Good.

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).

किताब kitāb

A book.

कितना kitnā

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

knowledge

Knowledge.

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.

क्रोध krōdh

Anger, wrath, fury, rage.

कृष्ण kr̥iṣhṇa

Black, dark.
Lord Kr̥iṣhṇa.

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.

लगन lagan

Devotion, perseverence, inclination, attachment.
An auspicious moment (for performing a ceremony).

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.

लज्जा lajjā

Shame, modesty, shyness, bashfulness.

लाख lākh

A hundred thousand, 100 000.

लक्ष्मी-नारायण lakṣhmī-nārāyaṇ

Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇ.

last

Last.

लौकिक laukik

Secular, earthly, worldly, mundane.

लव lav

Name of a son of Rāmcandra and Sītā.

लेकिन lēkin

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

लेना lēnā

To take.

लेटना lēṭnā

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

लिए liē

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

life

Life.

लोभ lōbh

Greed, avarice, covetousness.
Temptation, lure.

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)

love

Love.

माँ mā̃

Mother.

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).

महत्व mahatva

Importance.
Significance.
Greatness.
Magnitude.

महसूस mahsūs

Experienced, felt, perceived.

महसूसता mahsūstā

Experience, perception, feeling.

मैं maĩ

I. (personal pronoun)

मई maī

Consisting of, made of, composed of, abounding in, full of, replete with, mixed with.

मकान makān

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

male

Male.

मालूम mālūm

Known.
Evident, apparent.

man

Man.

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.

मनुष्य manuṣhya

A man, a human being.

march

March.

मरना marnā

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

मत mat

Opinion, view. Doctrine (which contains the author's opinions).

माता mātā

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

May

May (month)

माया māyā

The Illusion of the world which makes us believe false things and distances us from the Truth taught by God. The world, nature, the universe is not in itself an illusion. It is an eternal reality as is the soul and the Supreme Soul.

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.

मेल mēl

Meeting; assembly.
Mixture, mixing.
Connection; association, combination.
Concord, harmony.
Reconciliation.
Consistency, balance, proportion (between parts); similarity.
Counterpart; kind, sort.
Balance (as of an account); tally.
Band, company; union, alliance.

might

Might.

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.

mind

Mind.

mistake

Mistake.

मीठा mīṭhā

Sweet, pleasant.
Sweetmeat, jaggery.

मिटना miṭnā

To be effaced, to be erased.
To be ruined, to be undone, to be destructed.

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.

motor

Motor.
(colloquial) Motor car, automobile, goods vehicle.

मुख वंशावली mukh vaṅśhāvalī

Oral line, oral lineage, lineage by the mouth.

मुरली murlī

Flute, pipe.
(Bābā) The words of God, the instrument to enchant us, to make us dance in happiness in the company of the Supreme Being, the Beloved Being.

मुश्किल muśhkil

Difficult, hard, intricate.
Difficulty, hardship.

न na

Not (subjunctive or imperative).
Na .. na, Neither .. nor.
Repetitive Compounds of indefinite Pronouns, and of Adverbs formed from them are made by placing the Negative particle between the two words. These Compounds have a pronounced indefinite force. (A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi - Appendice III 5-j)

ना nā

Emphatic particle at the end of the sentence: no?, isn't it?
No.

नहीं nahī̃

No.
Not.

नहीं तो nahī̃ tō

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

नशा naśhā

Intoxication, drunkenness.

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).

नेष्ठा nēṣhṭhā

Guided meditation. The practice when meditators sit opposite one another giving soul conscious dr̥iṣhṭi.

नीच, नीचा, नींच nīch, nīchā, nīñch

Low (in a situation or position).
Low, vile, base, mean, petty, insignificant, inferior.

नीचे nīchē

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

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.

निर्वाह nirvāh

Maintenance, subsistence, sustenance.
Accomplishment, adjustment.

निवारण nivāraṇ

Prevention.
Removal (of a fault, a weakness); cure (of an illness).
Exclusion.
(Bābā) Solution.

not

Not.

note

Note.

nothing

Nothing.

of

Of.

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).

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.

पहुँचाना pahuñchānā

To cause to reach, to reach.
To carry.
To transmit, to convey.
To lead.

पहुंचना pahuñchnā

To reach, to arrive.

पैदा paidā

Born, created, begotten, produced, earned.
Income, gain, production.

पैसा paisā

(historicallly) A copper coin, a pice (the fourth part of an ānā; in value about a farthing and a half).
Paisa (1⁄100 of a rupee).
Money, cash, wealth, riches, fortune.

पक्का pakkā

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

पकना paknā

To ripen.
To be cooked.
To mature.
To supporate.
To turn grey (as hair)

पालना pālnā

To protect, guard, preserve, foster, nourish, cherish, bring up, rear, breed, domesticate.
To adopt.
Parents' sustenance, care, upbringing, support.

पंच pañch

5, five.
An arbitrator or a body of arbiters or jury.
The headman of a caste or village.

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.

पढ़ाई paṛhāī

Study, education, learning.

पढ़ाना paṛhānā

To teach, to instruct, to educate.

पढ़ना paṛhnā

To read, to study, to recite.

परिवार parivār

Family, household.

पड़ना paṛnā

To fall, to fall down, to drop.
To lie (down).
To occur, to befall.
To be involved; to be hit.
(Following the uninflected infinitive of another verb, paṛnā, like honā, signifies 'have to,' 'must'; e.g. usko jāne paṛā, 'he had to go'; — annexed to the base of some neuter verbs it forms intensives, as gir-paṛnā, 'to fall down'; — annexed to the base of a transitive verb it has generally the sense of honā, as dekh paṛnā, 'to be seen,' 'to become visible').

pass

To pass.

past

Past.

पशु paśhu

Animal, beast, cattle, a savage brute.

पता patā

Address, whereabouts, information, knowledge.

पाठी pāṭhī

(suffix) Reader or scholar of.
A Brāhman who has finished his studies; one who has read or studied (any subject), student; one who gives lessons, teacher, professor.

पति pati

Husband, master.

पौना paunā

A quarter less, one fourth less (than one or any other number), three quarters.
The three-fourths part.

पवित्र pavitr

Holy, sacred, pure.

पवित्रता pavitratā

Holiness, sanctity, purity.

फैलना phailnā

To spread, to be diffused, to expand, to extend, to be stretched, to be radiated, to be scattered, to spill, to become public.
To be inflated, to be on the increase.
To get uncontrorablle (through anger), to listen to no entreaties, to be angrily cross.

फालतू phāltū

Spare, extra, surplus.
Superfluous, useless, worthless.

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.

फूंकना phūṅknā

To blow; to blow (a wind instrument); to blow up (a fire).
To breathe; to infuse (as new life: into, में); to breathe (an incantation).
To whisper (in the ear); to influence (one).
To puff at (a cigarette).
To set fire to.
To squander (wealth, &c.).
To spread about (news, rumour).
To cause distress (to a person).

पीछे pīchhē

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

पिछला pichhlā

Hind, rear, hinder.
Back, back portion/part.
Latter, past, last.

पिलाना pilānā

To make to drink, to cause to drink, to administer.

पीना pīnā

To drink, to swill, to sip.
To smoke (as cigarette).
To conceal a secret, to absorb, to suppress (as anger).

point

Point.

position

Position.

पोत्रा pōtrā

Son of a son, grandson.

power

Power.

प्रबन्ध prabandh

Management, arrangement.
Administration.
A dissertation.
A comprehensive connected narrative.

practical

Practical.

practical life

Real life.

practice

Practice.

प्रजा prajā

Subjects, public, people.

प्रालब्ध prālabdh

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

प्राप्त prāpt

Got, obtained; procured, acquired.

प्रति prati

Towards.

प्रत्यक्ष pratyakṣh

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

प्रवृत्ति pravr̥itti

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

programme

Programme.
(Bābā) Event.

पूछना pūchhnā

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

पूरा pūrā

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

pure

Pure.

pure soul

Pure soul.

purity

Purity.

प्यार pyār

Love, affection, amour, amorous relationship.

रचना rachnā

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

रहाना rahānā

To make stay, to make remain.

रहना rahnā

To remain, to stay.

राजा rājā

King, monarch, prince.

रखना rakhnā

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

रस ras

Juice.
(aesthetic) relish.
Sentiment.
Pleasure, enjoyment.
Taste, flavour.

रात rāt

Night.

relation

Relation.

रिश्ता riśhtā

Relation, relationship, affinity, connection.

रोग rōg

Disease, illness, ailment, sickness, malady, affliction.

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.

रोज़ rōz

A day.
Everyday, daily.

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.

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.

सच sach

True, right.
Truth.
Really!

सद्गति दाता sadgati dātā

The Giver of sadgati: The one who bestows Salvation, a better abode in the post-death existence.
(Bābā) The one who bestows Salvation or Fruit (the reward of the golden age world).

सह sah

prefix. With, along with, together with.
United; common; co-

सहज sahaj

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

सहित sahit

With, together with, along with, accompanied by.

सैकड़ा saikṛā

One hundred, 100, a group of one hundred.

सजाना sajānā

To decorate, to adorn, to embellish, to beautify.
To furnish.
To arrange.
To dress neatly.

सकना saknā

To can, to be able to.

समझ samajh

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

समझना samajhnā

To understand.

समर्थ samarth

Capable, competent.
Powerful.

समय samay

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

सम्बन्ध sambandh

Connection, relationship.

संभलना sambhalnā

To pull (oneself) together, to be alert, to be supported, to save from a fall, to upstay, to be cautious.

समझाना samjhānā

(Causative of samajhnā) To persuade, explain.

सन san

In the year (used chiefly in dating documents, records, and the like, e.g. सन १८२३ 'in the year 1823').

संगठन saṅgaṭhan

(The act or process of) organization (or an organised body or system or society); union, unity; consolidation.
(Bābā) Group, coming together, gathering.

शंका śhaṅkā

Doubt, suspicion, mistrust.

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.

सन्तान santān

Offspring, children, descendants.
A son or daughter.

शान्ति śhānti

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

शफा śhaphā

Recovery (from sickness), healing, convalescence.
A medicine, remedy, cure.

सारा sārā

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

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.

सौ sau

Hundred, 100.
Many, numerous.

सौभाग्य saubhāgya

Good luck, fortune.

सज़ा sazā

Punishment, penalty.

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)

season

Season.
(Bābā) Meeting time with Bāpdādā (October to March through Dadi Gulzar).

see

See.

service

Service.

show

Show, display.

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.

स्मृति smr̥iti

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

son

Son.

son of supreme soul

Son of the Supreme soul.

सोना sōnā

To sleep.

soul

Soul.

श्रेष्ठ śhrēṣhṭha

The best, good, excellent, superior.

stage

Stage.
(Bābā) State, condition.

status

Status.

स्थान sthān

Place, spot, site.

स्थित sthit

Situated, located, placed.
Circumstanced.

स्थिति sthiti

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

स्त्री strī

Woman, wife.

student

Student.

student life

Student life.

सुख sukh

Happiness, pleasure, comfort, felicity, contentment.

सूक्ष्म sūkṣhma

Subtle.

सुनाना sunānā

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

सुनना sunnā

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

supreme

Supreme.

supreme soul

Supreme Soul.

शुरू śhurū

Beginning, commencement.

सुस्ती sustī

Languor, indolence, laziness, idleness, spiritlessness, depression.

तब tab

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

तक tak

To, upto, till, until, by.

ताकत tākat

Power, force, strength, might.

तकलीफ taklīph

Trouble, distress.
Ailment.

तरीका tarīkā

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

taste

Taste.

teacher

Teacher.

ठहरना ṭhaharnā

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

the

The.

the best

The best.

ठीक ṭhīk

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

थोड़ा thōṛā

A little, some, meagre, scanty.
Short.

time

Time.

तीसरा tīsrā

Third.

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')

टोली ṭōlī

A small flat plate or dish of metal or earth.
Plate, dish, platter, salver.
A present of sweetmeats, fruits, &c.

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).

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.

U

The letter U of our alphabet; used for acronyms.

उधर udhar

There, thither, on that side, that way, away.

उल्टा ulṭā

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

ऊंच ūñch

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

ऊपर ūpar

On, upon, above, upward, over.

उसका uskā

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

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.

वचन vachan

Utterance, speech.

वगैरह vagairah

And the rest, et cætera, and so forth.

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.

वर्सा varsā

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

वास्तव vāstav

Real, essential, actual, genuine.

वेद vēd

The most ancient and sacred scriptures of the Hindus, four in number, viz, Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda; knowledge, divine knowledge.

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.

wait

Wait.

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 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.

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).

योगी yōgī

(One) who practices yōg.

युक्ति yukti

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

ज़रूर zarūr

Certainly, undoubtedly, positively, without fail.

ज़रूरी zarūrī

Important, necessary, needful, compulsory, indispensable.

ज़ोर zōr

Strength, force, power.
Stress, strain.
Emphasis.
Support.
Influence.