📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 23 September 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 23 September 2026

📜 Hindi

तुम आत्मा हो फिर रूप बदला है अर्थात् निराकार से साकार में आये हो।

🔤 Transliteration

tum ātmā ho phir rūp badlā hai arthāt nirākār se sākār meṃ āye ho.

💬 Translation

You are a soul; then you changed form, that is, you came from the incorporeal state into a corporeal form.

A slightly more natural rendering would be:

You are a soul; then you passed from the incorporeal state into the corporeal state, in other words, you took on a physical form.

📚 Vocabulary

⚙️ ️Grammar

1. तुम आत्मा हो — tum ātmā ho

तुम आत्मा हो।

tum ātmā ho.

→ “You are a soul.”

The structure is very simple:

तुम + आत्मा + हो

tum + ātmā + ho

→ you + soul + are

Hindi does not require an article corresponding to English “a” here, so आत्मा — ātmā is naturally translated as “a soul.”

2. फिर रूप बदला है — phir rūp badlā hai

फिर — phir means “then” or “afterwards” here.

रूप बदलना

rūp badalnā

→ “to change form”

The expression:

रूप बदला है

rūp badlā hai

is literally close to:

“the form has changed.”

But since the logical subject of the sentence is still तुम — tum, the natural meaning is:

“you have changed form.”

बदला — badlā is the masculine singular perfective form of बदलना — badalnā, “to change.” It agrees with रूप — rūp, which is masculine.

3. अर्थात् — arthāt

अर्थात्

arthāt

→ “that is”, “in other words”

It introduces an explanation or reformulation of what comes before:

रूप बदला है अर्थात्…

rūp badlā hai arthāt…

→ “you have changed form, that is…”

So the second half of the sentence explains what रूप बदला है — rūp badlā hai means in this context.

4. निराकार से साकार में — nirākār se sākār meṃ

This is the central construction of the sentence.

निराकार से

nirākār se

→ from the incorporeal state

साकार में

sākār meṃ

→ into the corporeal state / into form

Then:

आये हो

āye ho

→ you have come

So, very literally:

निराकार से साकार में आये हो।

nirākār se sākār meṃ āye ho.

→ “You have come from the incorporeal into the corporeal.”

In natural English:

“You have passed from the incorporeal state into the corporeal state.”

🔎 निराकार — nirākār and साकार — sākār

Both words are built around:

आकार — ākār

→ form, shape, visible appearance

निर् + आकार → निराकार

nir + ākār → nirākār

→ without form, incorporeal

The Sanskrit prefix निर्- — nir- can express absence or lack.

By contrast:

स + आकार → साकार

sa + ākār → sākār

→ having form, manifested in a form

So we have the contrast:

निराकार ↔ साकार

nirākār ↔ sākār

→ incorporeal ↔ corporeal / manifested in form

🌟 Meaning in the BK context

In BK terminology, आत्मा — ātmā, the soul, is intrinsically निराकार — nirākār, incorporeal. The soul itself is not the physical body.

When the soul comes into the physical world and acts through a body, it enters the साकार — sākār state, the sphere of corporeal form.

Therefore:

निराकार से साकार में आये हो।

nirākār se sākār meṃ āye ho.

does not necessarily mean that the soul itself becomes material. Rather, the idea is that the soul passes from an incorporeal existence into an existence manifested through a physical body.

So the whole sentence can be understood as:

तुम आत्मा हो फिर रूप बदला है अर्थात् निराकार से साकार में आये हो।

tum ātmā ho phir rūp badlā hai arthāt nirākār se sākār meṃ āye ho.

→ “You are a soul; then your mode of manifestation changed: from the incorporeal state, you entered into a corporeal form.”

(content generated with the help of ChatGPT, copied and validated by me)

Download Word document

Definitions

Back to the murli