Mamma's Murli - gyan-sitar-45

अब ab

Now.

आबाद ābād

Inhabited, populated.
Flourishing, prosperous; pleasant, happy.

अच्छा achchhā

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

account

Account.

आधा ādhā

Half.

आदि ādi

Etcetera.
Beginning.
Early, initial, primordial.

अगर agar

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

ऐसा aisā

Such, of this type.

ऐसे नहीं aisē nahī̃

'not so', Do not believe.

आजीविका ājīvikā

Means of subsistence, livelihood; subsistence; food.

अकल्याण akalyāṇ

An unlucky or unpropitious circumstance. Unpropitious, ominous. Disconsolate.

अल्प alp

A little, small, minute, short, few.

आना ānā

To come.

अंगुली, उंगली aṅgulī, uṅglī

Finger, finger's breadth.

अनुसार anusār

According to, in conformity with.

अपना apnā

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

अपनाना apnānā

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

अप्राप्ति aprāpti

Non-attainment, non-acquisition.

अर्थात् arthāt

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

आशीर्वाद āśhīrvād

Blessing, benediction.

अशुभ aśhubh

Unlucky, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavourable.
Evil, bad.
The evil.

और aur

And.
Else.
Other.

authority

Authority.

बाबा bābā

Father.

बच्चा bachchā

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

बहुत bahut

Many, much.
Very.

बैठना baiṭhnā

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

बल bal

Strength, power, force.
Army.
Potency, vigour, vitality.
Emphasis, stress.

बनाना banānā

To make, to construct, to compose, to build, to prepare, to make ready, to form.
To pull somebody's leg, to patch up, to develop a good equation with.
To befool.

बनना bannā

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

बाप bāp

Father.

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.

बौद्ध bauddh

Buddhist.

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.

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).

भल bhal

Even if, even though.

भला bhalā

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

भरना bharnā

To fill, to refill.

भावना bhāvnā

Sentiment, feeling, emotion.

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.

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.

चाहिए chāhiē

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

चाहना chāhnā

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

चैतन्य chaitanya

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

चलना chalnā

Continue.

चलता-फिरता chaltā-phirtā

Mobile.
caltē-phirtē, By moving, by strolling, by walking.

छीनना chhīnnā

To snatch, to grab, to seize.

Christ

Christ.

Christian

Christian.

दया dayā

Pity, mercy, compassion.

देना dēnā

To give.

देवी-देवता dēvī-dēvtā

Goddess and god.

देवता dēvtā

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

देवता बनना dēvtā bannā

To become a divinity.

धन dhan

Wealth, riches, money.

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.

different

Different.

direct

Direct.

double

Double.

दुआ duā

Prayer.
Blessing.

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.

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).

घटना ghaṭnā

Incident, event, incidence, occurrence, phenomenon.
To happen.
To be subtracted, to decrease, to lessen.

गुरू gurū

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

गुरु-शिष्य guru-śhiṣhya

Guru and disciple.

ज्ञान gyān

Knowledge directly taught by God.

ज्ञान मार्ग gyān mārg

The path of Gyān, the path of Knowledge.

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.

ही hī

Emphatic particle with a sense of exclusion : only.

होना hōnā

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

इच्छा ichchhā

Wish, desire, will.

in

In.

इसलिए isliē

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

इतना itnā

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

जब jab

(Relative pronoun) When.

जमाना jamānā

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

जाना jānā

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

जानना jānnā

To know, to become aware of, to perceive.

जड़ jaṛ

Inanimate, immovable, inert.
Idiot, stupid.

जड़ना jaṛnā

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

जरूरत jarūrat

Necessity, importance.
Need, requirement.

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.

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.

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.

कलियुग kaliyug

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

कल्प kalp

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

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.

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.

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.

कौन kaun

interrogative pronoun. Who

के आगे kē āgē

In front of, ahead of, before.

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.

खुद khud

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

कि ki

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

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.

कृपा kr̥ipā

Kindness, favour, grace, kindly disposition, favourable attitude.
Compassion, pity, mercy, clemency.

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.

लक्ष्मी-नारायण lakṣhmī-nārāyaṇ

Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇ.

लायक lāyak

Able, capable, competent.
Worthy, fit.
Proper.

लेकिन lēkin

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

लेना lēnā

To take.

लिए liē

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

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)

माँ-बाप mā̃-bāp

Parents, mother and father.

माँगना mā̃gnā

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

महिमा mahimā

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

मैं maĩ

I. (personal pronoun)

मालिक mālik

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

मिलकियत milkiyat

Property, estate, landed property.

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.

मुझे याद करो mujhē yād karō

Remember Me.

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)

नहीं nahī̃

No.
Not.

नाम nām

Name.

नानक nānak

Name of the founder of the Sikh sect.

नशा naśhā

Intoxication, drunkenness.

ने nē

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

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)

पहले pahlē

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

पैदा paidā

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

पालना pālnā

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

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.

परन्तु parantu

But, however.

पढ़ाई paṛhāī

Study, education, learning.

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').

pass

To pass.

पवित्र pavitr

Holy, sacred, pure.

फल phal

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

फिर phir

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

फिरना phirnā

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

पिता pitā

Father, procreator, progenitor.

practical

Practical.

प्राप्ति prāpti

Obtaining, acquisition; attainment (to a goal, a level); fulfilment (of a request).
Gain, advantage; income.
Receipt (of a letter, &c.); reception (of guests).

प्रति prati

Towards.

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.

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.

रहना rahnā

To remain, to stay.

राजाई rājāī

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

राजधानी rājdhānī

King's residence, a royal palace, royal city, seat of government, capital, metropolis.

राजऋषि rājr̥iṣhi

The one leading a simple and pure life (r̥ṣi) thus attaining the status of a king (rājā).

रखना rakhnā

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

रस्म rasm

A ceremony, ritual.
Formality.
Custom, practice.

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.

सब sab

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

शब्द śhabd

Word, term, sound.

सबका sabkā

(genitive case of sab) Of everyone.

सच sach

True, right.
Truth.
Really!

साधन sādhan

The act of accomplishing, or achieving, processing.
An accomplishment, achievement, solution, realization.
Means, medium; expedient.
Appliance(s), equipment, device, an implement.
Resource(s).
(bābā) Material things, comforts, facilities.

समझना samajhnā

To understand.

सम्बन्ध sambandh

Connection, relationship.

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.

सारा sārā

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

सर्व sarv

All ; whole, entire, complete.

सतगुरू satgurū

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

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.

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)

स्थापना, स्थापन sthāpanā, sthāpan

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

शुभ भावना śhubh bhāvnā

Good feeling, auspicious feeling.

शुभचिंतक śhubhchintak

(One) who forms good wishes.
(One) who thinks or reflects on good, happiness or prosperity.
(One) who is concerned with good, happiness and prosperity.

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.

सुख sukh

Happiness, pleasure, comfort, felicity, contentment.

सुनना sunnā

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

शुरू śhurū

Beginning, commencement.

तब tab

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

ताज tāj

Crown, diadem.

ताकत tākat

Power, force, strength, might.

तप tap

Devout austerity, asceticism, self-mortification, penance.

तपना tapnā

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

teacher

Teacher.

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.

तुम tum

You (between equals).

ऊंच ūñch

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

उसका uskā

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

उठना uṭhnā

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

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.

वारिस vāris

Heir, successor, legatee.

वर्सा varsā

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

विनाश vināśh

Utter destruction, disappearance, destruction, utter loss, ruin, death, annihilation.
(in particular) The destruction of the old world.

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).

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.

ज़रूर zarūr

Certainly, undoubtedly, positively, without fail.