📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 12 September 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 12 September 2026

📜 Hindi

मुख्य है आत्मा।

🔤 Transliteration

mukhya hai ātmā.

💬 Translation

The soul is the essential thing.

Or, more literally:

It is the soul that is primary.

📚 Vocabulary

• मुख्य (mukhya) — main, principal, essential, primary
• है (hai) — is
• आत्मा (ātmā) — soul

⚙️ ️Grammar

मुख्य है आत्मा has a slightly emphatic word order.

A more neutral sentence would be:

आत्मा मुख्य है।
ātmā mukhya hai.
→ “The soul is primary / essential.”

But in:

मुख्य है आत्मा।
mukhya hai ātmā.

मुख्य is placed first for emphasis.

So the sense is closer to:

“What is essential is the soul.”
or
“It is the soul that is primary.”

The word मुख्य (mukhya) comes from Sanskrit मुख्य and means “main,” “principal,” “foremost,” or “essential.”

Here, it does not simply mean that the soul is “important.” It indicates that the soul is the fundamental reality that should be given priority.

🌟 Meaning in the BK context

The surrounding passage clearly distinguishes the soul from the body:

मैं आत्मा हूँ, यह मेरा शरीर है।
maiṃ ātmā hū̃, yah merā śarīr hai.
“I am a soul; this is my body.”

It then explains that the मन-बुद्धि (man-buddhi) — the mind and intellect — belong to the soul, not to the body, and that good or bad संस्कार (saṃskāra) also remain in the soul.

Therefore:

मुख्य है आत्मा।
mukhya hai ātmā.

means here:

“What is primary is the soul.”

The body is the instrument, whereas the soul is the conscious being — the one that thinks, understands, carries the saṃskāras, and acts through the body.

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