📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 08 October 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 08 October 2026
📜 Hindi
बाप कहते हैं - बच्चे हाथों से काम करते बुद्धि का योग मेरे से लगाओ।
🔤 Transliteration
Bāp kahte haiṃ — bacce hāthoṃ se kām karte buddhi kā yog mere se lagāo.
💬 Translation
“The Father says: Children, while working with your hands, keep your intellect connected to Me.”
More literally:
“The Father says: Children, while doing work with your hands, establish the connection of your intellect with Me.”
The sentence expresses the idea of maintaining remembrance of the Father even while performing everyday activities.
📚 Vocabulary
| Hindi | Transliteration | Meaning |
| बाप | bāp | Father |
| कहते हैं | kahte haiṃ | says, say |
| बच्चे | bacce | children (form of address) |
| हाथों | hāthoṃ | hands (oblique plural) |
| से | se | with, by means of, from |
| काम | kām | work, activity |
| करते | karte | doing, performing |
| बुद्धि | buddhi | intellect, faculty of discernment |
| का | kā | of |
| योग | yog | union, connection, link |
| मेरे से | mere se | with Me |
| लगाओ | lagāo | establish, attach, connect |
⚙️ ️Grammar
1. हाथों से — With your hands
- हाथ (hāth): hand.
- हाथों (hāthoṃ): oblique plural form.
- से (se): a postposition expressing the means or instrument used.
हाथों से (hāthoṃ se) therefore means “with the hands.”
Examples:
- हाथ से लिखना (hāth se likhnā) — to write by hand.
- हाथों से काम करना (hāthoṃ se kām karnā) — to work with one's hands.
2. काम करते — While working
काम करना (kām karnā) means “to work” or “to perform a task.”
In this sentence, काम करते (kām karte) has a circumstantial meaning: “while working.”
It is an elliptical form of:
काम करते हुए (kām karte hue) — while working.
The form with हुए is more explicit, but its omission is common in spoken Hindi.
Example:
चलते-चलते बातें करो। Calte-calte bāteṃ karo. “Talk while walking.”
Here, the repetition चलते-चलते emphasizes that the two actions take place simultaneously.
3. बुद्धि का योग — The connection of the intellect
This expression deserves particular attention.
- बुद्धि (buddhi): intellect.
- का (kā): of.
- योग (yog): union, connection.
बुद्धि का योग (buddhi kā yog) literally means “the connection of the intellect.”
Why is का (kā) used instead of की (kī), even though बुद्धि is feminine?
Because का agrees with योग, the masculine noun that follows, not with बुद्धि.
In BK spiritual vocabulary, बुद्धि refers to the inner faculty through which the soul understands, discerns, and directs its attention.
4. मेरे से — With Me
This construction is interesting.
मेरे से (mere se) corresponds here to the more standard form:
मुझसे (mujhse) — with me, from me, or by me, depending on the context.
In spoken Hindi, particularly in the Murlis, मेरे से is frequently encountered.
Examples:
- मुझसे बात करो। (Mujhse bāt karo.) — Speak with me.
- मेरे से बात करो। (Mere se bāt karo.) — The same meaning, in a more colloquial register.
In our sentence, मेरे से identifies the person with whom the connection is to be established: the Father.
5. योग लगाओ — Establish a connection
The verb लगाना (lagānā) has many meanings: to place, apply, attach, fix, or establish.
In the construction:
किसी से योग लगाना (kisī se yog lagānā)
it means “to establish a connection with someone.”
लगाओ (lagāo) is the imperative form of लगाना, used here to address the children.
In a spiritual context, योग लगाना means to direct one's intellect inwardly towards someone or something.
The complete expression:
बुद्धि का योग मेरे से लगाओ। Buddhi kā yog mere se lagāo. “Connect your intellect to Me.”
🌟 Meaning in the BK Context
In the Murli, the spiritual Father (Shiv Baba) teaches that children can perform their everyday tasks while keeping their intellect connected to Him.
The sentence distinguishes between two simultaneous activities:
- हाथों से काम करना (hāthoṃ se kām karnā) — performing physical tasks with the hands.
- बुद्धि का योग बाप से लगाना (buddhi kā yog bāp se lagānā) — maintaining an inner connection of the intellect with the Father.
This principle corresponds to the practice of karma yoga (कर्मयोग), understood in the BK context as performing actions while maintaining remembrance of God.
The teaching is therefore not about stopping work in order to meditate, but about learning to remember the Father in the midst of action.
An important nuance: बुद्धि का योग does not simply refer to an occasional thought about the Father. It suggests an inner orientation of the intellect, a conscious relationship with Him.
✨ Key Takeaway
हाथों से काम करो, बुद्धि से बाप को याद करो।
Hāthoṃ se kām karo, buddhi se bāp ko yād karo.
“Work with your hands and remember the Father with your intellect.”
This is a simplified reformulation, not the original quotation.
The essential teaching is that the hands can remain busy with work while the intellect remains directed towards the Father.
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Definitions
Child, kid, baby, infant.
Inexperienced, raw, of unripe age.
Father.
बाप कहते हैं bāp kahtē haĩ (hindi)
The Father says.
The intelligent mind that thinks, observes its thoughts, sets a goal, imbibes knowledge or beliefs and judges what is right or not, what conforms to its purpose or not. This mind grows until an adult age.
The hand, the wrist, the pulse.
Hand, member (of a work team).
A hand (at cards).
Hand, contribution (in some activity).
Handle, arm (of a chair).
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)
Say.
Work, task, job, employment, performance, function.
To engage, to employ.
To attach, to join, to connect.
To plant.
To apply.
To affix.
To make someone hang around.
To levy.
To touch.
To invest.
To paste, to stick.
To set, to fix.
To shut, to close.
To keep.
To backbite.
To inflame.
To add.
I. (personal pronoun)
से is used for denoting :
- The Subject of a Verb in the passive and impersonal voices.
- The indirect Objects (which are usually persons) of the Verbs meaning 'to tell, say, ask, ask for, beg, demand, claim, request’.
- Means, instrument or agency.
- Manner.
- Cause, reason, origin.
- Association, antagonism.
- Separation or keeping away from.
- Starting point (place or time).
- Duration (with reference to a continuous 'action' of present or past).
- Difference and comparison between two persons or things.
(A Basic Grammar of Modern Hindi)
Connection, union.
Combination; conjuncture (as of heavenly bodies); agreement, similarity.
Yoga, a theory or practice of abstract meditation undertaken to bring the soul towards or into union with the supreme spirit; bodily exercises or disciplines, as conducive to the above.
(Bābā) Union in remembrance (especially with the Father).