📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 18 October 2026
📅 Murli sentence of 18 October 2026
📜 Hindi
आप सिर्फ योग लगाने वाले नहीं हो, योगी जीवन वाले हो।
🔤 Transliteration
Āp sirf yog lagāne vāle nahī̃ ho, yogī jīvan vāle ho.
💬 Translation
“You are not merely those who practise yoga; you are those who live a yogi life.”
Or, more naturally:
“You don't just practise yoga; you live as yogis.”
The sentence contrasts a spiritual practice performed at particular times with a way of life that continues throughout the day.
📚 Vocabulary
| Hindi | Transliteration | Meaning |
| आप | āp | you (respectful) |
| सिर्फ | sirf | only, merely, simply |
| योग | yog | yoga, spiritual connection |
| लगाना | lagānā | to apply, attach, establish |
| लगाने वाले | lagāne vāle | those who practise or establish |
| नहीं | nahī̃ | not |
| हो | ho | are |
| योगी | yogī | yogi, one who lives in yoga |
| जीवन | jīvan | life |
| जीवन वाले | jīvan vāle | those who have or lead a particular kind of life |
⚙️ ️Grammar
1. योग लगाना (yog lagānā) — To establish a spiritual connection
The verb लगाना (lagānā) has several meanings, including to put, apply, attach, fix, and establish.
In the expression योग लगाना, it means to establish a spiritual connection or direct one's mind and intellect towards God.
In BK terminology, it particularly refers to connecting the buddhi (intellect) with the Father, Shiva.
2. लगाने वाले (lagāne vāle) — Those who practise
The construction is:
Oblique infinitive + वाला (vālā)
It can describe someone who habitually performs an action or is characterised by that action.
Examples:
- पढ़ने वाले (paṛhne vāle) — those who study.
- सेवा करने वाले (sevā karne vāle) — those who do service.
- योग लगाने वाले (yog lagāne vāle) — those who practise yoga.
The plural form वाले (vāle) agrees here with the people being addressed.
3. योगी जीवन वाले (yogī jīvan vāle) — Those who live a yogi life
This expression is particularly interesting.
योगी जीवन (yogī jīvan) literally means “yogi life” or “the life of a yogi.”
Adding वाले (vāle) identifies people who possess or lead that kind of life.
A literal translation would be:
“Those who have a yogi life.”
The emphasis is therefore not merely on an activity but on a quality that characterises one's entire existence.
4. नहीं हो … हो (nahī̃ ho … ho) — You are not… you are…
The sentence is built around a contrast.
आप सिर्फ योग लगाने वाले नहीं हो Āp sirf yog lagāne vāle nahī̃ ho You are not merely those who practise yoga.
योगी जीवन वाले हो। Yogī jīvan vāle ho. You are those who lead a yogi life.
Notice the use of हो (ho) with आप (āp).
In formal standard Hindi, आप normally takes हैं (haĩ). However, the combination आप … हो is frequently heard in the spoken Hindi of the Murlis, giving the teaching a direct, familiar tone.
🌟 Spiritual Meaning in the BK Context
The essential distinction is between योग लगाना (yog lagānā) and योगी जीवन (yogī jīvan).
योग लगाना (yog lagānā) — Practising yoga
Yoga may be understood as a specific spiritual practice: sitting in meditation, concentrating the intellect on the Father, and establishing a spiritual connection.
It can therefore be something one does at particular moments of the day.
योगी जीवन (yogī jīvan) — Living a yogi life
A yogi life goes beyond specific meditation sessions.
A yogi does not remember the Father only during designated periods of meditation. The aim is to maintain soul-consciousness and remembrance of the Father throughout everyday activities.
This spiritual awareness is meant to influence thoughts, words, relationships, and actions.
We can therefore distinguish:
- योग लगाने वाला (yog lagāne vālā) — Someone who practises yoga.
- योगी जीवन वाला (yogī jīvan vālā) — Someone whose entire life is permeated by yoga.
The sentence does not reject the practice of yoga. Instead, it encourages the practitioner to go beyond meditation as an occasional activity and make spiritual awareness a continuous way of living.
💎 Key Message: It is not simply about doing yoga, but about living in yoga.
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Definitions
You (to a superior, a stranger, his father).
(reflective pronoun) Self, himself, oneself, yourself, themselves...
To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.
Life, animation, existence.
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.
No.
Not.
A suffix denoting an agent, doer, owner, possessor, keeper or inhabitant : the one of, the one with, the one who.
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).
(One) who practices yōg.