📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 26 August 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 26 August 2026

📜 Hindi

तुम देही-अभिमानी बनो तो बाप की याद रहे फिर सर्विस की उन्नति भी होती रहेगी।

🔤 Transliteration

tum dehī-abhimānī bano to bāp kī yād rahe, phir sarvis kī unnati bhī hotī rahegī.

💬 Translation

If you become soul-conscious, you will remain in remembrance of the Father; then the service will also continue to progress.

A slightly more natural rendering:

“Become soul-conscious; then you will remain in remembrance of the Father, and the service too will continue to develop.”

📚 Vocabulary

⚙️ ️Grammar

1. देही-अभिमानी बनो — dehī-abhimānī bano

बनो — bano is the imperative form of बनना — bananā, “to become.”

So:

देही-अभिमानी बनो
dehī-abhimānī bano
→ “Become soul-conscious.”

In BK language, देही-अभिमानी — dehī-abhimānī is often contrasted with:

देह-अभिमानी — deha-abhimānī
→ body-conscious, identified with the body.

The distinction between देह — deha and देही — dehī is important:

Therefore:

देह-अभिमानी — deha-abhimānī
→ “identified with the body”

देही-अभिमानी — dehī-abhimānī
→ “conscious of oneself as the soul inhabiting the body”

2. …तो… — …to…

तुम देही-अभिमानी बनो तो…
tum dehī-abhimānī bano to…

→ “If / when you become soul-conscious, then…”

Hindi can use तो — to by itself to introduce the consequence. It does not always need the full construction अगर… तो… — agar… to…, “if… then…”.

3. बाप की याद रहे — bāp kī yād rahe

Literally:

बाप की याद रहे
bāp kī yād rahe
→ “May / will the remembrance of the Father remain.”

The expression याद रहना — yād rahnā normally means “to remain in one’s memory” or “to continue remembering.”

In Murli language, however, बाप की याद — bāp kī yād is stronger than simply “not forgetting the Father.” It means remaining in remembrance of the Father, maintaining that inner connection.

4. सर्विस की उन्नति — sarvis kī unnati

सर्विस — sarvis comes directly from the English word service.

उन्नति — unnati means “progress,” “development,” “advancement,” and sometimes “upliftment.”

So:

सर्विस की उन्नति
sarvis kī unnati
→ literally, “the progress of the service.”

5. होती रहेगी — hotī rahegī

This construction combines:

होना — honā: to be, to happen
+
रहना — rahnā: to remain, to continue

So:

होती रहेगी — hotī rahegī
→ “will continue to happen”
→ in context, “will continue to progress / develop.”

The feminine form होती — hotī agrees with उन्नति — unnati, which is feminine.

सर्विस की उन्नति भी होती रहेगी।
sarvis kī unnati bhī hotī rahegī.
→ “The service too will continue to progress.”

🌟 Meaning in the BK context

The sentence presents a clear sequence:

देही-अभिमानी → बाप की याद → सर्विस की उन्नति
dehī-abhimānī → bāp kī yād → sarvis kī unnati

soul-consciousness → remembrance of the Father → progress in service

The starting point is:

देही-अभिमानी बनो — dehī-abhimānī bano
→ “Become soul-conscious.”

When this awareness is maintained:

बाप की याद रहे — bāp kī yād rahe
→ “The remembrance of the Father remains.”

And from this inner state also follows:

सर्विस की उन्नति भी होती रहेगी — sarvis kī unnati bhī hotī rahegī
→ “The service too will continue to progress.”

The word भी — bhī, “also,” is significant. Remembrance first brings an inner transformation, and the progress of service follows along with it.

So the sentence links the inner spiritual state directly with outer service: in this perspective, service does not progress only through external effort, but also through the quality of one’s soul-consciousness and remembrance of the Father.

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Definitions

अभिमानी abhimānī (sanskrit)

Proud.
Arrogant.
(Bābā) (suffix) Who considers himself as.

बनना bannā (hindi)

To become, be, change, belong (with a possessive pronoun or a noun in the genitive case).

बाप bāp (hindi)

Father.

बाप की याद bāp kī yād (hindi)

Remembrance of the Father.

भी bhī (hindi)

Inclusive emphatic particle: too, also, even.

देही-अभिमानी dēhī-abhimānī (sanskrit)

(Bābā) Who considers himself as the soul which animates the body.

देही dēhī (sanskrit)

Possessing a body.
The soul who animates the body and survives it.

होना hōnā (hindi)

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

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.

फिर phir (hindi)

Then, again, afterwards, thereafter, in future, a second time.

रहना rahnā (hindi)

To remain, to stay.

service (anglais)

Service.

तो tō (hindi)

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

तुम tum (hindi)

You (between equals).

उन्नति unnati (sanskrit)

Progress, rise.
Promotion.
Improvement, betterment.
Development.

याद ياد yād (persan)

Remembrance, recollection, memory.

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