📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 12 October 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 12 October 2026

📜 Hindi

बाप तो आत्माओं को पढ़ाते हैं।

🔤 Transliteration

Bāp to ātmāõ ko paṛhāte haiṃ.

💬 Translation

“The Father, for His part, teaches souls.”

Or, more naturally:

“The Father gives His teachings to souls.”

In the BK context, this sentence also suggests that, in order to truly receive and assimilate these teachings, we must consider ourselves to be souls.

📚 Vocabulary

⚙️ ️Grammar

1. The particle तो (to)

In बाप तो (bāp to), the particle तो emphasizes the Father, possibly contrasting Him with other teachers.

Compare:

बाप पढ़ाते हैं। Bāp paṛhāte haiṃ. “The Father teaches.”

बाप तो पढ़ाते हैं। Bāp to paṛhāte haiṃ. “The Father, for His part, teaches.”

The second sentence places greater emphasis on the Father's particular role.

2. आत्माओं को (ātmāõ ko) — “To souls”

The noun आत्मा (ātmā, soul) is feminine.

The postposition को (ko) requires the oblique form in the plural.

Thus:

• आत्मा को (ātmā ko) — To the soul.
• आत्माओं को (ātmāõ ko) — To souls.

Here, the construction identifies the recipients of the teaching.

3. पढ़ाते हैं (paṛhāte haiṃ) — “Teaches”

Hindi distinguishes between two related verbs:

पढ़ाना is the causative form of पढ़ना.

Examples:

बच्चे पढ़ते हैं। Bacche paṛhte haiṃ. “The children study.”

बाप बच्चों को पढ़ाते हैं। Bāp baccoṃ ko paṛhāte haiṃ. “The Father teaches the children.”

Although बाप is singular, पढ़ाते हैं uses the honorific plural form to express respect for the Father.

🌟 Meaning in the BK Context

1. The Father teaches souls, not bodies

In the teachings of the Brahma Kumaris, Shiv Baba is the incorporeal Spiritual Father. He gives spiritual knowledge to souls through the body of Brahma.

The body provides the physical means of hearing the words, but it is the soul that listens, understands, and assimilates the knowledge.

Therefore, this teaching is not merely an intellectual transmission of information. It is addressed to the conscious being itself.

2. Considering ourselves to be souls in order to understand the teaching

This is an essential implication of the sentence.

If the Father teaches souls, then the students must also adopt the awareness of their spiritual identity in order to truly receive His teaching.

This attitude is called:

आत्म-अभिमानी बनना Ātma-abhimānī bannā “To become soul-conscious.”

It is contrasted with:

देह-अभिमानी होना Deha-abhimānī honā “To be body-conscious” or “to identify oneself with the body.”

According to BK teachings, when we consider ourselves primarily to be physical beings, we naturally interpret everything through our bodily identity, relationships, and material experiences.

However, when we consider ourselves to be souls, we can understand the teaching from the spiritual perspective in which it is given.

There is therefore a distinction between understanding the words of the Murli intellectually and deeply assimilating their spiritual meaning.

3. Soul-consciousness: both a prerequisite and a result

There is a particularly interesting reciprocal relationship here.

On the one hand, soul-consciousness helps us understand the Father's teaching more deeply.

On the other hand, it is precisely this teaching that helps us develop and stabilize our soul-consciousness.

The process can be summarized as follows:

आत्म-अभिमानी बनना

Ātma-abhimānī bannā

Consider oneself to be a soul

ज्ञान को समझना

Jñān ko samajhnā

Understand spiritual knowledge

आत्म-अभिमानी स्थिति को पक्का करना

Ātma-abhimānī sthiti ko pakkā karnā

Strengthen and stabilize soul-consciousness

A process of progressive deepening

Soul-consciousness is therefore not merely theoretical knowledge to be acquired. It gradually becomes our natural way of perceiving ourselves.

4. A complementary sentence

आत्म-अभिमानी बनकर बाप की पढ़ाई पढ़ो।

Ātma-abhimānī bankar bāp kī paṛhāī paṛho.

“Study the Father's teachings while remaining soul-conscious.”

This illustrative sentence contains several useful grammatical constructions:

• बनकर (bankar): “Having become” or “by becoming”; here, adopting a particular state of awareness.
• बाप की पढ़ाई (bāp kī paṛhāī): “The Father's teaching” or “the education given by the Father.”
• पढ़ो (paṛho): Imperative form of पढ़ना — “Study!”

This sentence makes explicit what is implied in the original statement.

💎 Key Takeaway

बाप तो आत्माओं को पढ़ाते हैं। Bāp to ātmāõ ko paṛhāte haiṃ.

“The Father, for His part, teaches souls.”

In the BK context, this sentence expresses two complementary ideas:

The Father regards His students as souls; the students must learn to regard themselves as souls.

This shift in awareness enables us not only to listen to the teaching but also to understand, assimilate, and put it into practice.

Soul-consciousness thus becomes the starting point, the means, and one of the essential goals of spiritual study.

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