📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 10 March 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 10 March 2026

📜 Hindi

देवतायें आत्म-अभिमानी थे। जानते थे एक देह को छोड़ दूसरी लेनी है। परमात्म-अभिमानी नहीं थे।

🔤 Transliteration

devatāẽ ātm-abhimānī the. jānte the ek deh ko choṛ dūsrī lenī hai. paramātm-abhimānī nahī̃ the.

💬 Translation

The deities were soul-conscious. They knew that one has to leave one body and take another. But they were not conscious of the Supreme (God).

📚 Vocabulary

• देवतायें (devatāẽ) — deities, divine beings
• आत्म (ātma) — the soul
• अभिमान (abhimān) — identification, sense of “I am this”
• अभिमानी (abhimānī) — one who identifies with / is conscious of

Important expressions:

• आत्म-अभिमानी — soul-conscious
• देह-अभिमानी — body-conscious
• परमात्म-अभिमानी — conscious of God

Other words:

• जानते थे — they knew
• देह (deh) — body
• छोड़ (choṛ) — leaving
• दूसरी (dūsrī) — another, second
• लेनी (lenī) — to take
• परमात्म (Paramātmā) — the Supreme Soul, God

⚙️ Grammar

1️⃣ Structure: X + अभिमानी

These expressions follow the same pattern:

X + अभिमानी

→ “one who identifies with X”

Examples:

• देह-अभिमानी — identified with the body
• आत्म-अभिमानी — identified with the soul
• परमात्म-अभिमानी — conscious of the Supreme

2️⃣ Why जानते थे is masculine

देवतायें is grammatically feminine plural, so strictly speaking we might expect:

जानती थीं
jāntī thī̃ — “they (feminine) knew”

However the text uses:

जानते थे (masculine plural).

In Hindi, masculine plural often functions as a generic form when speaking about:

• mixed groups
• a general category
• symbolic beings (like deities)

So the masculine plural becomes the neutral collective form.

3️⃣ Infinitive construction

In the sentence:

एक देह को छोड़ दूसरी लेनी है

Structure:

X को छोड़ Y लेनी है

→ to leave X and take Y.

So the meaning is:

एक देह को छोड़ दूसरी लेनी है
→ to leave one body and take another.

4️⃣ Feminine agreement of लेनी

देह (body) is feminine in Hindi.

Therefore:

• लेनी (feminine form of the infinitive)

Meaning:

“to take another body”.

🌱 The meaning of अभिमान

Everyday Hindi meaning

In modern Hindi, अभिमान usually means:

• pride
• ego
• arrogance

Example:

उसको बहुत अभिमान है
→ He is very proud / arrogant.

Original philosophical meaning

In Sanskrit philosophy, the word originally meant:

👉 identification or sense of self

So:

• देह-अभिमान — identification with the body
• आत्म-अभिमान — identification with the soul

The meaning “pride” developed later because identification with the body leads to ego.

🕊️ Spiritual meaning of the sentence

This sentence expresses an important idea in BK teachings.

The deities:

✔ were soul-conscious (आत्म-अभिमानी)
✔ naturally knew that the soul changes bodies

But:

❌ they were not God-conscious (परमात्म-अभिमानी).

Why?

Because in the Golden Age:

• souls are naturally pure
• but the knowledge of God is not yet revealed.

✨ Summary

Type of consciousness	Hindi	Meaning
body-consciousness	देह-अभिमान	ego, ignorance
soul-consciousness	आत्म-अभिमान	natural state of the deities
God-consciousness	परमात्म-अभिमान	remembrance of the Supreme

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