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📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 03 May 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 03 May 2026
📜 Hindi
आपकी जगदम्बा का स्लोगन था - तो कभी भी कब नहीं कहो, अब।
🔤 Transliteration
āpkī jagadambā kā slogan thā – to kabhī bhī kab nahī̃ kaho, ab.
💬 Translation
The slogan of your Jagadamba was: never say “when?”, say “now.”
👉 Natural sense:
Don’t wait for the right moment — act now.
📚 Vocabulary
- आपकी (āpkī) : your
- जगदम्बा (jagadambā) : Jagadamba (Mother of the world)
- स्लोगन (slogan) : slogan
- था (thā) : was
- तो (to) : then / so / indeed (emphasis)
- कभी भी (kabhī bhī) : ever / never (in negative context = never)
- कब (kab) : when
- नहीं (nahī̃) : not
- कहो (kaho) : say (imperative)
- अब (ab) : now
⚙️ Grammar
🔹 1. Negative imperative structure
- कहो (kaho) = “say” (imperative)
- नहीं (nahī̃) = not
- कभी भी (kabhī bhī) = ever / at any time
👉 कभी भी कब नहीं कहो (kabhī bhī kab nahī̃ kaho)
= “Never say ‘when’”
✔ Strong, general prohibition.
🔹 2. Role of तो (to)
- तो (to) adds emphasis or a sense of conclusion
👉 “so / then / therefore”
In context:
तो कभी भी कब नहीं कहो
→ “so, never say ‘when’”
🔹 3. Core contrast
- कब (kab) = when?
- अब (ab) = now
👉 A powerful phonetic and conceptual contrast:
kab ↔ ab
🔍 Understanding कब (kab) more deeply
👉 Basic meaning:
- कब (kab) = when? (neutral time question)
Example:
- तुम कब आओगे ? (tum kab āoge ?)
→ When will you come?
✔ No idea of delay here — just a normal question.
👉 In this slogan: shift in meaning
In:
कभी भी कब नहीं कहो (kabhī bhī kab nahī̃ kaho)
👉 कब (kab) becomes a mental attitude, not just a word.
It represents:
- waiting for the “right time”
- postponing action
- staying in intention without acting
👉 Saying “kab?” often implies:
- “I’ll do it… later”
- “not now”
⚖️ Inner contrast
- कब (kab) → postponement mindset
- अब (ab) → immediate action
👉 So:
- saying kab = staying in thought
- saying ab = taking action
🌱 Deeper (spiritual) meaning
This slogan teaches:
✔ Don’t live in:
- delay (kab)
- hesitation
- “later”
✔ Live in:
- the present moment (ab)
- determination
- immediate action
🔥 Reformulation
👉 कभी भी कब नहीं कहो, अब
(kabhī bhī kab nahī̃ kaho, ab)
=
Don’t stay in “when?” (kab)
Move into “now” (ab)
💡 Concrete example
- “I’ll start yoga… kab (when?)”
→ intention without action - “I start ab (now)”
→ real action
🧭 Key takeaway
✔ कब (kab) is neutral by itself
❗ but here it symbolizes procrastination
✔ अब (ab) symbolizes presence and action
Definitions
Now.
You (to a superior, a stranger, his father).
(reflective pronoun) Self, himself, oneself, yourself, themselves...
Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.
To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.
'The mother of the world,' a name of Durgā or Pārvati.
(Bābā) A name given to Mama.
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)
Interrogative adverb: When? At what time ?
Sometime, ever.
Say.
No.
Not.
Slogan.
Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.