Persian · noun · Selfhood & Will

Be-khudi

बेख़ुदी
said be-khu-DEE
also written: bekhudi
Meaning

Selflessness, self-forgetting; the surrender of the self.

Literally: “Without-self.”

Usage & notes

Not the annihilation of the self he fought for under Khudi, but its next movement: the fortified self offered up into the larger life of the community (millat). First build the self; then give it away. He paired the two ideas in the titles of two whole Persian books — Asrar-e-Khudi and Rumuz-e-Bekhudi.