📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 14 August 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 14 August 2026

📜 Hindi

बाप की याद से तुम देही-अभिमानी बनेंगे।

🔤 Transliteration

Bāp kī yād se tum dehī-abhimānī baneṅge.

💬 Translation

Through remembrance of the Father, you will become soul-conscious.

A slightly fuller BK rendering would be:

Through remembrance of the Father, you will become established in the awareness that you are the soul dwelling in the body.

📚 Vocabulary

• बाप (bāp) — father; here, the Father, God
• की (kī) — of; possessive marker agreeing with feminine याद
• याद (yād) — remembrance, memory; in BK language, conscious remembrance of Baba
• से (se) — through, by means of, because of
• तुम (tum) — you
• देही (dehī) — the one who possesses or inhabits a body; the embodied soul
• अभिमानी (abhimānī) — identifying oneself as, having the awareness of
• देही-अभिमानी (dehī-abhimānī) — conscious of oneself as the soul inhabiting the body
• बनेंगे (baneṅge) — you will become

⚙️ ️Grammar

1. बाप की याद — bāp kī yād

याद (yād), “remembrance,” is feminine, so the possessive form is:

बाप की याद
“remembrance of the Father”

With से:

बाप की याद से
“through / by means of remembrance of the Father”

Here से expresses the means by which a change takes place.

2. बनेंगे — baneṅge

This is the future form of बनना (bananā), “to become.”

तुम … बनेंगे
“you will become …”

So the basic structure is:

X से + Y बनना
“to become Y through X”

🔎 A closer look at देही-अभिमानी

This is the key expression in the sentence.

देह (deha) and देही (dehī)

These two words must be clearly distinguished:

• देह (deha) = body
• देही (dehī) = the one who possesses or inhabits the body

The ending -ई (-ī) here gives the idea of “one who possesses or is associated with.”

So:

देह → देही
body → the one who has a body

In spiritual language, देही refers to the conscious being within the body: the soul.

A simple way to understand the distinction is:

देह = the vehicle
देही = the one using the vehicle

अभिमानी (abhimānī)

In everyday Hindi, अभिमान (abhimān) often means “pride,” and अभिमानी can mean “proud” or “arrogant.”

But in spiritual compounds such as देह-अभिमानी and देही-अभिमानी, it has a broader sense:

अभिमानी = “having the consciousness of,” “identifying oneself as,” “regarding oneself as.”

So देही-अभिमानी does not mean “proud of the soul.”

It means:

“one whose awareness is based on being the देही, the soul dwelling in the body.”

🔄 देह-अभिमानी vs देही-अभिमानी

This contrast is especially important in BK vocabulary.

देह-अभिमानी — deha-abhimānī

Since देह means “body,” this means being identified with the body:

“I am this body.”

Identity is then connected with bodily and social labels: name, age, appearance, gender, role, relationships, possessions, status, and so on.

देही-अभिमानी — dehī-abhimānī

Since देही means “the one inhabiting the body,” this means:

“I am the soul; this body is my instrument.”

The body is not rejected. It is used, cared for and acted through, but it is no longer taken to be the deepest identity of the self.

The contrast can be summarized very simply:

देह-अभिमानी
→ I am the body.

देही-अभिमानी
→ I am the one who inhabits the body.

Only one long ई (ī) separates देह from देही, but spiritually the point of view changes completely.

🌟 Meaning in the BK context

बाप की याद से तुम देही-अभिमानी बनेंगे।
Bāp kī yād se tum dehī-abhimānī baneṅge.

In the BK context, Baba is not merely saying, “Think that you are a soul.” The sentence also gives the method for becoming stable in that awareness: बाप की याद — remembrance of the Father.

As I remember Baba while considering myself to be a soul, the centre of identification gradually shifts:

मैं शरीर हूँ।
Maiṁ śarīr hū̃.
“I am the body.”

↓

मैं आत्मा हूँ; यह शरीर मेरा साधन है।
Maiṁ ātmā hū̃; yah śarīr merā sādhan hai.
I am a soul; this body is my instrument.”

So देही-अभिमानी is more than an intellectual idea. It describes a स्थिति (sthiti) — a state of consciousness in which I experience myself primarily as the soul rather than as the body.

The sentence therefore expresses a progression:

बाप की याद → देह-अभिमान कम होता है → देही-अभिमानी स्थिति

remembrance of the Father → body-conscious identification decreases → soul-conscious awareness becomes stable

The deeper sense is:

“As your awareness turns toward the Father, identification with the body gradually loosens, and you become established in the awareness: ‘I am the soul who inhabits and acts through this body.’”

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