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📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 30 Jully 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 30 Jully 2026
📜 Hindi
भगवान कभी कुछ ले नहीं सकते, वह तो देते हैं।
🔤 Transliteration
Bhagavān kabhī kuch le nahī̃ sakte, vah to dete haĩ.
💬 Translation
God can never take anything; He only gives.
A slightly more emphatic version:
God never takes anything—He is always the One who gives.
📚 Vocabulary
- भगवान (bhagavān) — God
- कभी (kabhī) — ever, sometime; with a negative verb: never
- कुछ (kuch) — something, anything
- लेना (lenā) — to take, to receive
- ले सकते हैं (le sakte haĩ) — can take
- ले नहीं सकते (le nahī̃ sakte) — cannot take
- वह (vah) — he, that one
- तो (to) — indeed, as for him, on the contrary
- देना (denā) — to give
- देते हैं (dete haĩ) — gives / they give
⚙️ ️Grammar
1. कभी … नहीं (kabhī … nahī̃) — “never”
The word कभी normally means “ever,” “sometime,” or “sometimes.” When it is used with नहीं, the whole construction means “never.”
वह कभी नहीं आता।
Vah kabhī nahī̃ ātā.
“He never comes.”
In the sentence:
भगवान कभी कुछ ले नहीं सकते।
Bhagavān kabhī kuch le nahī̃ sakte.
“God can never take anything.”
2. ले सकते हैं — expressing ability or possibility
Hindi uses the verb सकना (saknā, “to be able to”) after the root of another verb:
लेना (lenā, “to take”) → ले सकते हैं (le sakte haĩ, “can take”)
With negation:
ले नहीं सकते (le nahī̃ sakte)
“cannot take”
The literal structure is:
ले — take
नहीं — not
सकते हैं — is able to
3. Honorific plural
Although भगवान refers to one God, the plural verb forms are used:
- सकते हैं (sakte haĩ)
- देते हैं (dete haĩ)
This is the respectful or honorific plural. Hindi frequently uses plural verb forms when speaking respectfully about God, elders, teachers, or other honoured persons.
4. The emphatic particle तो
In वह तो देते हैं, the particle तो creates emphasis and contrast:
- God does not take;
- He, on the contrary, gives.
Depending on the context, तो may be translated as:
- “as for Him”
- “on the contrary”
- “indeed”
- “He only…”
- “He is the One who…”
Therefore:
वह तो देते हैं।
Vah to dete haĩ.
“As for Him, He only gives.”
Meaning in the BK context
In BK teachings, this sentence presents Shiv Baba as the supreme Donor — दाता (dātā).
God does not need to receive food, money, possessions, praise, or physical offerings. Being incorporeal and complete, He has no personal desires or needs. He comes only to give souls:
- spiritual knowledge;
- purity;
- peace;
- power through remembrance;
- liberation and liberation-in-life;
- the inheritance of the new world.
Children may speak of “giving” their weaknesses, vices, worries, or burdens to Baba. However, Baba does not receive these things for His own benefit. Rather, surrendering them helps the soul become free from them.
Thus, even when the child appears to give something to Baba, it is ultimately the child who receives the benefit.
The central contrast is:
Human beings often take because they need something; God gives because He is the unlimited Donor.
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Definitions
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.
To give.
Sometime, ever.
Something; anything.
A little, some.
fig. sthg. particular.
Some; any.
A few.
Somewhat, a little, at all.
To take.
No.
Not.
To can, to be able to.
Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.
Third person personal pronoun: he, she, it (and also they).
Distant demonstrative pronoun and adjective: that (and also those).