📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 03 May 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 03 May 2026

📜 Hindi

आपकी जगदम्बा का स्लोगन था - तो कभी भी कब नहीं कहो, अब।

🔤 Transliteration

āpkī jagadambā kā slogan thā – to kabhī bhī kab nahī̃ kaho, ab.

💬 Translation

The slogan of your Jagadamba was: never say “when?”, say “now.”

👉 Natural sense:
Don’t wait for the right moment — act now.

📚 Vocabulary

⚙️ Grammar

🔹 1. Negative imperative structure

👉 कभी भी कब नहीं कहो (kabhī bhī kab nahī̃ kaho)
= “Never say ‘when’”

✔ Strong, general prohibition.

🔹 2. Role of तो (to)

In context:
तो कभी भी कब नहीं कहो
→ “so, never say ‘when’”

🔹 3. Core contrast

👉 A powerful phonetic and conceptual contrast:
kab ↔ ab

🔍 Understanding कब (kab) more deeply

👉 Basic meaning:

Example:

✔ No idea of delay here — just a normal question.

👉 In this slogan: shift in meaning

In:
कभी भी कब नहीं कहो (kabhī bhī kab nahī̃ kaho)

👉 कब (kab) becomes a mental attitude, not just a word.

It represents:

👉 Saying “kab?” often implies:

⚖️ Inner contrast

👉 So:

🌱 Deeper (spiritual) meaning

This slogan teaches:

✔ Don’t live in:

✔ Live in:

🔥 Reformulation

👉 कभी भी कब नहीं कहो, अब
(kabhī bhī kab nahī̃ kaho, ab)

=
Don’t stay in “when?” (kab)
Move into “now” (ab)

💡 Concrete example

🧭 Key takeaway

✔ कब (kab) is neutral by itself
❗ but here it symbolizes procrastination

✔ अब (ab) symbolizes presence and action

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Definitions

अब ab (hindi)

Now.

आप āp (hindi)

You (to a superior, a stranger, his father).
(reflective pronoun) Self, himself, oneself, yourself, themselves...

भी bhī (hindi)

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

होना hōnā (hindi)

To be.
To happen, to occur.
To exist.
To be born.

जगदम्बा jagadambā (sanskrit)

'The mother of the world,' a name of Durgā or Pārvati.
(Bābā) A name given to Mama.

का kā (hindi)

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.

कब kab (hindi)

Interrogative adverb: When? At what time ?

कभी kabhī (hindi)

Sometime, ever.

कहना kahnā (hindi)

Say.

नहीं nahī̃ (hindi)

No.
Not.

slogan (anglais)

Slogan.

तो tō (hindi)

Then, therefore, moreover.
An emphatic particle (e.g. मैं तो जाऊँगा).
At any rate, however, at least.

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