📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 07 August 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 07 August 2026

📜 Hindi

आत्मा मेल है, शरीर प्रकृति है।

🔤 Transliteration

Ātmā mel hai, śarīr prakṛti hai.

💬 Translation

The soul is male; the body belongs to material nature.

Or, making the contrast more explicit:

The soul is “male,” whereas the body belongs to prakṛti, material nature.

📚 Vocabulary

• आत्मा (ātmā) — soul
• मेल (mel / male) — male, masculine; here borrowed from English male
• शरीर (śarīr) — body
• प्रकृति (prakṛti) — nature; natural constitution; material nature; matter
• है (hai) — is

⚙️ ️Grammar

The sentence consists of two very simple parallel clauses:

आत्मा | मेल | है
soul | male | is

शरीर | प्रकृति | है
body | prakṛti | is

Literally:

“The soul is male; the body is prakṛti.”

Because this sounds unnatural in English, it is better to make the relationship explicit:

“The soul is male; the body belongs to material nature.”

🌿 प्रकृति — prakṛti

1. Everyday meaning: “nature”

In ordinary Hindi, प्रकृति can simply mean nature:

प्रकृति सुंदर है।
Prakṛti sundar hai.
→ Nature is beautiful.

It can also mean someone’s nature, constitution, or temperament:

उसकी प्रकृति शांत है।
Uskī prakṛti śānt hai.
→ His/her nature is peaceful.

So प्रकृति can refer both to the external natural world and to the inherent nature or constitution of something.

2. Philosophical meaning: material nature

In Indian philosophy, prakṛti has a deeper meaning.

It refers broadly to manifested nature, the realm of matter and transformation.

A well-known philosophical contrast is:

पुरुष — puruṣa
→ conscious principle

प्रकृति — prakṛti
→ nature, matter, the principle of manifestation

In Sāṃkhya philosophy, for example, prakṛti is primordial nature from which the various aspects of the manifested world evolve. It is associated with the three guṇas:

• सत्त्व (sattva) — clarity, harmony, balance
• रजस् (rajas) — activity, movement
• तमस् (tamas) — inertia, darkness

However, we should not automatically import the entire Sāṃkhya system into this Murli sentence. Here, prakṛti is being used in a simpler and more practical contrast with the soul.

🌟 Meaning of प्रकृति in this BK context

The full passage says:

आत्मा मेल है, शरीर प्रकृति है।
आत्मा सदैव मेल है।
बाकी शरीर हिसाब-किताब से मेल-फीमेल का मिलता है।

The main idea is a distinction between:

आत्मा — ātmā
→ that which is spiritual and conscious

and

शरीर / प्रकृति — śarīr / prakṛti
→ that which belongs to the material world and changes from one birth to another.

Therefore:

शरीर प्रकृति है।

does not simply mean:

“The body is nature.”

A clearer English rendering would be:

“The body belongs to the realm of material nature.”

or:

“The body is part of prakṛti, the material dimension of existence.”

Why प्रकृति is important here

The word helps explain the next sentence:

शरीर ... मेल-फीमेल का मिलता है।
Śarīr ... mel-phīmel kā miltā hai.
→ A male or female body is received.

In this passage, therefore, male/female belongs to the bodily form, and thus to prakṛti.

The body may change:

पुरुष शरीर → स्त्री शरीर → पुरुष शरीर...
male body → female body → male body...

whereas the passage says:

आत्मा सदैव मेल है।
Ātmā sadaiv mel hai.
→ The soul is always male.

So the contrast is:

आत्मा → spiritual identity
प्रकृति → bodily and material form

The sex of the physical body belongs to prakṛti, not to the changing identity of the soul through different bodies.

🔎 प्रकृति means more than simply “matter”

Translating prakṛti as matter can be useful, but the word is broader.

It can carry the ideas of:

nature → constitution → manifestation → material realm → that which undergoes change

So, in this particular sentence, a fuller translation could be:

“The soul is ‘male’; the body belongs to prakṛti, the material and changing aspect of existence.”

🧠 Key point to remember

आत्मा चेतन है, शरीर प्रकृति का है।
Ātmā cetan hai, śarīr prakṛti kā hai.

The soul is conscious; the body belongs to material nature.

This is the key to understanding प्रकृति here: it refers to what belongs to the body, matter, manifestation, and change, in contrast with the conscious soul.

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