Hanuman Bahuk
verse 1
सिंधु तरन सिय-सोच हरन रबि बाल बरन तनु
Siṃdhu tarana siya-soca harana rabi bāla barana tanu
भुज बिसाल मूरति कराल कालहु को काल जनु
Bhuja bisāla mūrati karāla kālahu ko kāla janu
गहन-दहन-निरदहन लंक निःसंक बंक-भुव
Gahana-dahana-niradahana laṃka niḥsaṃka baṃka-bhuva
जातुधान-बलवान मान-मद-दवन पवनसुव
Jātudhāna-balavāna māna-mada-davana pavanasuva
कह तुलसिदास सेवत सुलभ सेवक हित सन्तत निकट
Kaha tulasidāsa sevata sulabha sevaka hita santata nikaṭa
गुन गनत नमत सुमिरत जपत समन सकल-संकट-विकट
Guna ganata namata sumirata japata samana sakala-saṃkaṭa-vikaṭa
Meaning
Crosser of the ocean, remover of Sita's grief, His body the colour of the rising sun,
vast of arm, awesome of form, like Death to Death itself,
who burned the thick grove to ashes and fearlessly took Lanka, that rugged land,
crusher of the pride and arrogance of the mighty demons, son of the Wind:
says Tulsidas, He is easily reached by service and stays always near for His servant's good;
to count His virtues, bow to Him, remember Him, chant His name destroys every dire calamity.
verse 2
स्वर्न-सैल-संकास कोटि-रवि तरुन तेज घन
Svarna-saila-saṃkāsa koṭi-ravi taruna teja ghana
उर विसाल भुज दण्ड चण्ड नख-वज्रतन
Ura visāla bhuja daṇḍa caṇḍa nakha-vajratana
पिंग नयन भृकुटी कराल रसना दसनानन
Piṃga nayana bhṛkuṭī karāla rasanā dasanānana
कपिस केस करकस लंगूर खल-दल-बल-भानन
Kapisa kesa karakasa laṃgūra khala-dala-bala-bhānana
कह तुलसिदास बस जासु उर मारुतसुत मूरति विकट
Kaha tulasidāsa basa jāsu ura mārutasuta mūrati vikaṭa
संताप पाप तेहि पुरुष पहि सपनेहुँ नहिं आवत निकट
Saṃtāpa pāpa tehi puruṣa pahi sapanehu~ nahiṃ āvata nikaṭa
Meaning
Like a mountain of gold, dense with the radiance of ten million young suns,
broad of chest, arms like fierce staves, nails and body hard as the thunderbolt,
tawny eyes, terrible brows, fearsome tongue, teeth and face,
reddish-brown fur, a stiff tail, breaker of the wicked host's strength:
says Tulsidas, in whose heart this awesome form of the Wind's son dwells,
grief and sin do not come near that person even in a dream.
verse 3
पञ्चमुख-छःमुख भृगु मुख्य भट असुर सुर सर्व सरि समर समरत्थ सूरो
Pañcamukha-chaḥmukha bhṛgu mukhya bhaṭa asura sura sarva sari samara samarattha sūro
बांकुरो बीर बिरुदैत बिरुदावली बेद बंदी बदत पैजपूरो
Bāṃkuro bīra birudaita birudāvalī beda baṃdī badata paijapūro
जासु गुनगाथ रघुनाथ कह जासुबल बिपुल जल भरित जग जलधि झूरो
Jāsu gunagātha raghunātha kaha jāsubala bipula jala bharita jaga jaladhi jhūro
दुवन दल दमन को कौन तुलसीस है पवन को पूत रजपूत रुरो
Duvana dala damana ko kauna tulasīsa hai pavana ko pūta rajapūta ruro
Meaning
Five-faced Shiva, six-faced Skanda, Bhrigu and the other chief warriors, demons and gods: a match for them all, He is the hero equal to any battle.
A gallant champion, bearer of titles, whose string of honours the Vedas recite like bards, and who keeps every vow He makes.
Whose tale of virtues Raghunatha Himself tells, and by whose strength the world-ocean, brimming with waters, was dried up.
Who else can crush the demon host, says Tulsi's Lord? None but the Wind's son, that splendid warrior.
verse 4
भानुसों पढ़न हनुमान गए भानुमन अनुमानि सिसु केलि कियो फेर फारसो
Bhānusoṃ par̤hana hanumāna gae bhānumana anumāni sisu keli kiyo phera phāraso
पाछिले पगनि गम गगन मगन मन क्रम को न भ्रम कपि बालक बिहार सो
Pāchile pagani gama gagana magana mana krama ko na bhrama kapi bālaka bihāra so
कौतुक बिलोकि लोकपाल हरिहर विधि लोचननि चकाचौंधी चित्तनि खबार सो
Kautuka biloki lokapāla harihara vidhi locanani cakācauṃdhī cittani khabāra so
बल कैंधो बीर रस धीरज कै साहस कै तुलसी सरीर धरे सबनि सार सो
Bala kaiṃdho bīra rasa dhīraja kai sāhasa kai tulasī sarīra dhare sabani sāra so
Meaning
Hanuman went to the Sun to learn; the Sun, taking Him for a child at play, put Him off with a difficulty.
So He travelled the sky walking backwards, mind absorbed, never faltering in step: for the monkey-child it was only a game.
Watching this marvel, the guardians of the worlds, Hari, Hara and Brahma were dazzled in the eye and shaken in the mind.
Is it strength, or the heroic mood, or steadfastness, or daring? Says Tulsi: all of them together took a body in Him, the essence of them all.
verse 5
भारत में पारथ के रथ केथू कपिराज गाज्यो सुनि कुरुराज दल हल बल भो
Bhārata meṃ pāratha ke ratha kethū kapirāja gājyo suni kururāja dala hala bala bho
कह्यो द्रोन भीषम समीर सुत महाबीर बीर-रस-बारि-निधि जाको बल जल भो
Kahyo drona bhīṣama samīra suta mahābīra bīra-rasa-bāri-nidhi jāko bala jala bho
बानर सुभाय बाल केलि भूमि भानु लागि फलँग फलाँग हूतें घाटि नभ तल भो
Bānara subhāya bāla keli bhūmi bhānu lāgi phala~ga phalā~ga hūteṃ ghāṭi nabha tala bho
नाई-नाई-माथ जोरि-जोरि हाथ जोधा जो हैं हनुमान देखे जगजीवन को फल भो
Nāī-nāī-mātha jori-jori hātha jodhā jo haiṃ hanumāna dekhe jagajīvana ko phala bho
Meaning
In the Bharata war the monkey-king roared from the banner of Arjuna's chariot, and hearing it the host of the Kuru king was thrown into confusion.
Drona and Bhishma said: the Wind's son, that great hero, is an ocean of heroic feeling whose waters are His own strength.
In simple monkey-nature, in a child's play, He leapt from the earth to the sun; measured against that leap, the whole vault of the sky fell short.
Bowing their heads again and again and folding their hands, the warriors who beheld Hanuman found in that sight the fruit of their life.
verse 6
गो-पद पयोधि करि होलिका ज्यों लाई लंक निपट निःसंक पर पुर गल बल भो
Go-pada payodhi kari holikā jyoṃ lāī laṃka nipaṭa niḥsaṃka para pura gala bala bho
द्रोन सो पहार लियो ख्याल ही उखारि कर कंदुक ज्यों कपि खेल बेल कैसो फल भो
Drona so pahāra liyo khyāla hī ukhāri kara kaṃduka jyoṃ kapi khela bela kaiso phala bho
संकट समाज असमंजस भो राम राज काज जुग पूगनि को करतल पल भो
Saṃkaṭa samāja asamaṃjasa bho rāma rāja kāja juga pūgani ko karatala pala bho
साहसी समत्थ तुलसी को नाई जा की बाँह लोक पाल पालन को फिर थिर थल भो
Sāhasī samattha tulasī ko nāī jā kī bā~ha loka pāla pālana ko phira thira thala bho
Meaning
He made the ocean a cow's hoofprint and set Lanka ablaze like a Holika fire, and utterly without fear forced His way into the enemy's city.
He uprooted a mountain like Drona as if in play and held it in His hand like a ball: for the monkey it was sport, the hill no more than a bel fruit.
When the whole assembly was in crisis and Rama's cause hung in doubt, the work of ages became a moment in His palm.
Bold and equal to all, such is Tulsi's master, whose arm became once more the firm ground on which the world-guardians could rest.
verse 7
कमठ की पीठि जाके गोडनि की गाड़ऐं मानो नाप के भाजन भरि जल निधि जल भो
Kamaṭha kī pīṭhi jāke goḍani kī gār̤aaiṃ māno nāpa ke bhājana bhari jala nidhi jala bho
जातुधान दावन परावन को दुर्ग भयो महा मीन बास तिमि तोमनि को थल भो
Jātudhāna dāvana parāvana ko durga bhayo mahā mīna bāsa timi tomani ko thala bho
कुम्भकरन रावन पयोद नाद ईधन को तुलसी प्रताप जाको प्रबल अनल भो
Kumbhakarana rāvana payoda nāda īdhana ko tulasī pratāpa jāko prabala anala bho
भीषम कहत मेरे अनुमान हनुमान सारिखो त्रिकाल न त्रिलोक महाबल भो
Bhīṣama kahata mere anumāna hanumāna sārikho trikāla na triloka mahābala bho
Meaning
The dents His feet left on the tortoise's back were as though the ocean's water had been measured out into vessels.
Those hollows became a fortress for demons fleeing the burning, and dry standing-ground for the great fish and sea-monsters.
Kumbhakarna, Ravana and Meghanada were the fuel, and Tulsi says His blazing majesty became the fire that consumed it.
Bhishma says: by my reckoning, in none of the three times nor in the three worlds has there been a mighty one to match Hanuman.
verse 8
दूत राम राय को सपूत पूत पौनको तू अंजनी को नन्दन प्रताप भूरि भानु सो
Dūta rāma rāya ko sapūta pūta paunako tū aṃjanī ko nandana pratāpa bhūri bhānu so
सीय-सोच-समन दुरित दोष दमन सरन आये अवन लखन प्रिय प्राण सो
Sīya-soca-samana durita doṣa damana sarana āye avana lakhana priya prāṇa so
दसमुख दुसह दरिद्र दरिबे को भयो प्रकट तिलोक ओक तुलसी निधान सो
Dasamukha dusaha daridra daribe ko bhayo prakaṭa tiloka oka tulasī nidhāna so
ज्ञान गुनवान बलवान सेवा सावधान साहेब सुजान उर आनु हनुमान सो
Jñāna gunavāna balavāna sevā sāvadhāna sāheba sujāna ura ānu hanumāna so
Meaning
Messenger of King Rama, worthy son of the Wind, You are Anjani's delight, Your splendour like the abounding sun.
Queller of Sita's grief, subduer of sin and fault, shelter of those who come for refuge, dear to Lakshmana as his own breath.
To grind down the ten-faced one, that unbearable affliction, You appeared: dwelling of the three worlds, Tulsi's treasure.
Wise, rich in virtue, mighty, attentive in service: take such a discerning master, Hanuman, into your heart.
verse 9
दवन दुवन दल भुवन बिदित बल बेद जस गावत बिबुध बंदी छोर को
Davana duvana dala bhuvana bidita bala beda jasa gāvata bibudha baṃdī chora ko
पाप ताप तिमिर तुहिन निघटन पटु सेवक सरोरुह सुखद भानु भोर को
Pāpa tāpa timira tuhina nighaṭana paṭu sevaka saroruha sukhada bhānu bhora ko
लोक परलोक तें बिसोक सपने न सोक तुलसी के हिये है भरोसो एक ओर को
Loka paraloka teṃ bisoka sapane na soka tulasī ke hiye hai bharoso eka ora ko
राम को दुलारो दास बामदेव को निवास नाम कलि कामतरु केसरी किसोर को
Rāma ko dulāro dāsa bāmadeva ko nivāsa nāma kali kāmataru kesarī kisora ko
Meaning
Crusher of the demon host, whose strength is known through the worlds; the Vedas sing the fame of Him who set the gods free from prison.
Skilled at melting the frost of sin and affliction, He is the dawn sun that opens the lotus which is His servant.
Free of sorrow in this world and the next, without grief even in a dream: in Tulsi's heart there is trust in one alone.
Rama's cherished servant, dwelling place of Vamadeva; in the Kali age the name of Kesari's son is a wish-granting tree.
verse 10
महाबल सीम महा भीम महाबान इत महाबीर बिदित बरायो रघुबीर को
Mahābala sīma mahā bhīma mahābāna ita mahābīra bidita barāyo raghubīra ko
कुलिस कठोर तनु जोर परै रोर रन करुना कलित मन धारमिक धीर को
Kulisa kaṭhora tanu jora parai rora rana karunā kalita mana dhāramika dhīra ko
दुर्जन को कालसो कराल पाल सज्जन को सुमिरे हरन हार तुलसी की पीर को
Durjana ko kālaso karāla pāla sajjana ko sumire harana hāra tulasī kī pīra ko
सीय-सुख-दायक दुलारो रघुनायक को सेवक सहायक है साहसी समीर को
Sīya-sukha-dāyaka dulāro raghunāyaka ko sevaka sahāyaka hai sāhasī samīra ko
Meaning
The very limit of great strength, greatly terrible, of mighty arrows; the renowned Mahavira, chosen by Raghuvira.
Body hard as the thunderbolt, whose force raises an uproar in battle, yet whose mind is graced with compassion, righteous and steadfast.
To the wicked terrible as Death, to the good a protector; remembered, He carries Tulsi's pain away.
Giver of joy to Sita, darling of Raghunatha, helper of His servants: the bold son of the Wind.
verse 11
रचिबे को बिधि जैसे पालिबे को हरि हर मीच मारिबे को ज्याईबे को सुधापान भो
Racibe ko bidhi jaise pālibe ko hari hara mīca māribe ko jyāībe ko sudhāpāna bho
धरिबे को धरनि तरनि तम दलिबे को सोखिबे कृसानु पोषिबे को हिम भानु भो
Dharibe ko dharani tarani tama dalibe ko sokhibe kṛsānu poṣibe ko hima bhānu bho
खल दुःख दोषिबे को जन परितोषिबे को माँगिबो मलीनता को मोदक दुदान भो
Khala duḥkha doṣibe ko jana paritoṣibe ko mā~gibo malīnatā ko modaka dudāna bho
आरत की आरति निवारिबे को तिहुँ पुर तुलसी को साहेब हठीलो हनुमान भो
Ārata kī ārati nivāribe ko tihu~ pura tulasī ko sāheba haṭhīlo hanumāna bho
Meaning
As Brahma is for creating and Hari for sustaining, as Shiva is for killing and the drink of nectar for bringing back to life,
as the earth is for bearing and the sun for driving off darkness, as fire is for drying up and the cool-rayed moon for nourishing,
as there is fault-finding for the wicked and contentment for the devotee, and as a sweet is given twice over to answer a beggar's shabbiness,
so for driving away the distress of the afflicted, in all three worlds Tulsi's master is the unyielding Hanuman.
verse 12
सेवक स्योकाई जानि जानकीस मानै कानि सानुकूल सूलपानि नवै नाथ नाँक को
Sevaka syokāī jāni jānakīsa mānai kāni sānukūla sūlapāni navai nātha nā~ka ko
देवी देव दानव दयावने ह्वै जोरैं हाथ बापुरे बराक कहा और राजा राँक को
Devī deva dānava dayāvane hvai joraiṃ hātha bāpure barāka kahā aura rājā rā~ka ko
जागत सोवत बैठे बागत बिनोद मोद ताके जो अनर्थ सो समर्थ एक आँक को
Jāgata sovata baiṭhe bāgata binoda moda tāke jo anartha so samartha eka ā~ka ko
सब दिन रुरो परै पूरो जहाँ तहाँ ताहि जाके है भरोसो हिये हनुमान हाँक को
Saba dina ruro parai pūro jahā~ tahā~ tāhi jāke hai bharoso hiye hanumāna hā~ka ko
Meaning
Knowing His servant's service, Janaki's lord honours the bond; Shiva who bears the trident is favourable, and the lord of heaven bows.
Goddesses, gods and demons fold their hands in awe: what then are a wretched king or a poor beggar?
Waking, sleeping, sitting, at play or in delight, whatever calamity comes to him, the One who is able is his single mark.
Every day goes well and full for him wherever he is, who keeps in his heart the trust of Hanuman's battle-cry.
verse 13
सानुग सगौरि सानुकूल सूलपानि ताहि लोकपाल सकल लखन राम जानकी
Sānuga sagauri sānukūla sūlapāni tāhi lokapāla sakala lakhana rāma jānakī
लोक परलोक को बिसोक सो तिलोक ताहि तुलसी तमाइ कहा काहू बीर आनकी
Loka paraloka ko bisoka so tiloka tāhi tulasī tamāi kahā kāhū bīra ānakī
केसरी किसोर बन्दीछोर के नेवाजे सब कीरति बिमल कपि करुनानिधान की
Kesarī kisora bandīchora ke nevāje saba kīrati bimala kapi karunānidhāna kī
बालक ज्यों पालि हैं कृपालु मुनि सिद्धता को जाके हिये हुलसति हाँक हनुमान की
Bālaka jyoṃ pāli haiṃ kṛpālu muni siddhatā ko jāke hiye hulasati hā~ka hanumāna kī
Meaning
For him Shiva who bears the trident, with His attendants and with Gauri, is favourable; so are all the world-guardians, and Lakshmana, Rama and Janaki.
In this world and the next he is beyond sorrow, and in all three worlds too: says Tulsi, what longing has he left for any other hero?
Kesari's son, freer of captives, has favoured them all; spotless is the fame of the monkey who is a store of compassion.
The compassionate One will rear him like a child up to the perfection of a sage, in whose heart Hanuman's battle-cry rings with joy.
verse 14
करुनानिधान बलबुद्धि के निधान हौ महिमा निधान गुनज्ञान के निधान हौ
Karunānidhāna balabuddhi ke nidhāna hau mahimā nidhāna gunajñāna ke nidhāna hau
बाम देव रुप भूप राम के सनेही नाम लेत देत अर्थ धर्म काम निरबान हौ
Bāma deva rupa bhūpa rāma ke sanehī nāma leta deta artha dharma kāma nirabāna hau
आपने प्रभाव सीताराम के सुभाव सील लोक बेद बिधि के बिदूष हनुमान हौ
Āpane prabhāva sītārāma ke subhāva sīla loka beda bidhi ke bidūṣa hanumāna hau
मन की बचन की करम की तिहूँ प्रकार तुलसी तिहारो तुम साहेब सुजान हौ
Mana kī bacana kī karama kī tihū~ prakāra tulasī tihāro tuma sāheba sujāna hau
Meaning
You are a store of compassion, a store of strength and wisdom; You are a store of greatness, a store of virtue and knowledge.
You are Shiva in form, dear to King Rama; at the taking of Your name come dharma, wealth, desire and release.
By Your own power, and by the temper and character of Sita and Rama, You are learned in the world, the Veda and the rule, Hanuman.
In thought, in word and in deed, in all three ways, Tulsi is Yours; You are his discerning master.
verse 15
मन को अगम तन सुगम किये कपीस काज महाराज के समाज साज साजे हैं
Mana ko agama tana sugama kiye kapīsa kāja mahārāja ke samāja sāja sāje haiṃ
देवबंदी छोर रनरोर केसरी किसोर जुग जुग जग तेरे बिरद बिराजे हैं
Devabaṃdī chora ranarora kesarī kisora juga juga jaga tere birada birāje haiṃ
बीर बरजोर घटि जोर तुलसी की ओर सुनि सकुचाने साधु खल गन गाजे हैं
Bīra barajora ghaṭi jora tulasī kī ora suni sakucāne sādhu khala gana gāje haiṃ
बिगरी सँवार अंजनी कुमार कीजे मोहिं जैसे होत आये हनुमान के निवाजे हैं
Bigarī sa~vāra aṃjanī kumāra kīje mohiṃ jaise hota āye hanumāna ke nivāje haiṃ
Meaning
What the mind cannot reach He made easy for the body, doing the monkey-king's work and setting in order the great king's whole array.
Freer of the gods from prison, roarer in battle, son of Kesari: age after age Your titles have shone in the world.
Overpowering hero, Tulsi's side has grown weak; hearing it the good are abashed, while the wicked crowd roars.
Son of Anjani, set right what has gone wrong; make me as those have been made whom Hanuman has favoured.
verse 16
जान सिरोमनि हो हनुमान सदा जन के मन बास तिहारो
Jāna siromani ho hanumāna sadā jana ke mana bāsa tihāro
ढ़आरो बिगारो मैं काको कहा केहि कारन खीझत हौं तो तिहारो
R̤haāro bigāro maiṃ kāko kahā kehi kārana khījhata hauṃ to tihāro
साहेब सेवक नाते तो हातो कियो सो तहां तुलसी को न चारो
Sāheba sevaka nāte to hāto kiyo so tahāṃ tulasī ko na cāro
दोष सुनाये तैं आगेहुँ को होशियार ह्वैं हों मन तो हिय हारो
Doṣa sunāye taiṃ āgehu~ ko hośiyāra hvaiṃ hoṃ mana to hiya hāro
Meaning
You are the crest-jewel of the knowing, Hanuman; Your dwelling is always in Your people's minds.
Whom have I ruined, what have I spoiled, and for what cause are You angry with me, who am Your own?
By the bond of master and servant, if You have withdrawn Your hand, then Tulsi has no other recourse there.
Tell me my fault and I will be careful hereafter; but the mind is willing while the heart has already lost.
verse 17
तेरे थपै उथपै न महेस थपै थिर को कपि जे उर घाले
Tere thapai uthapai na mahesa thapai thira ko kapi je ura ghāle
तेरे निबाजे गरीब निबाज बिराजत बैरिन के उर साले
Tere nibāje garība nibāja birājata bairina ke ura sāle
संकट सोच सबै तुलसी लिये नाम फटै मकरी के से जाले
Saṃkaṭa soca sabai tulasī liye nāma phaṭai makarī ke se jāle
बूढ भये बलि मेरिहिं बार कि हारि परे बहुतै नत पाले
Būḍha bhaye bali merihiṃ bāra ki hāri pare bahutai nata pāle
Meaning
What You establish, not even Mahesha can unseat; what You unseat, who can make firm, once You have set it in Your heart, monkey?
Those whom You favour, protector of the poor, shine out, and it galls the hearts of their enemies.
All Tulsi's troubles and anxieties, at the taking of Your name, tear like a spider's web.
Have You grown old, that my turn should come to this, or are You worn out with protecting so many who bow to You?
verse 18
सिंधु तरे बड़ए बीर दले खल जारे हैं लंक से बंक मवासे
Siṃdhu tare bar̤ae bīra dale khala jāre haiṃ laṃka se baṃka mavāse
तैं रनि केहरि केहरि के बिदले अरि कुंजर छैल छवासे
Taiṃ rani kehari kehari ke bidale ari kuṃjara chaila chavāse
तोसो समत्थ सुसाहेब सेई सहै तुलसी दुख दोष दवा से
Toso samattha susāheba seī sahai tulasī dukha doṣa davā se
बानरबाज ! बढ़ए खल खेचर लीजत क्यों न लपेटि लवासे
Bānarabāja ! bar̤hae khala khecara lījata kyoṃ na lapeṭi lavāse
Meaning
You crossed the sea, crushed great warriors, burned Lanka and its crooked strongholds,
on the battlefield You, the lion, tore open enemy elephants as if they were young calves.
Serving so able and good a master, must Tulsi still endure the wildfire of sorrow and fault?
Hawk among monkeys! Why not snatch up these grown wicked birds and wring them, as a hawk takes small prey?
verse 19
अच्छ विमर्दन कानन भानि दसानन आनन भा न निहारो
Accha vimardana kānana bhāni dasānana ānana bhā na nihāro
बारिदनाद अकंपन कुंभकरन से कुञ्जर केहरि वारो
Bāridanāda akaṃpana kuṃbhakarana se kuñjara kehari vāro
राम प्रताप हुतासन कच्छ विपच्छ समीर समीर दुलारो
Rāma pratāpa hutāsana kaccha vipaccha samīra samīra dulāro
पाप ते साप ते ताप तिहूँ तें सदा तुलसी कह सो रखवारो
Pāpa te sāpa te tāpa tihū~ teṃ sadā tulasī kaha so rakhavāro
Meaning
Crusher of Aksha, breaker of the grove, at whose face the ten-faced one could not look,
to elephants such as Meghanada, Akampana and Kumbhakarna You were the lion.
You are the fire of Rama's majesty, guardian of your own side against the other, the Wind's own darling,
and Tulsi says: from sin, from curse and from the three afflictions, He is always the one who guards.
verse 20
जानत जहान हनुमान को निवाज्यो जन मन अनुमानि बलि बोल न बिसारिये
Jānata jahāna hanumāna ko nivājyo jana mana anumāni bali bola na bisāriye
सेवा जोग तुलसी कबहुँ कहा चूक परी साहेब सुभाव कपि साहिबी संभारिये
Sevā joga tulasī kabahu~ kahā cūka parī sāheba subhāva kapi sāhibī saṃbhāriye
अपराधी जानि कीजै सासति सहस भान्ति मोदक मरै जो ताहि माहुर न मारिये
Aparādhī jāni kījai sāsati sahasa bhānti modaka marai jo tāhi māhura na māriye
साहसी समीर के दुलारे रघुबीर जू के बाँह पीर महाबीर बेगि ही निवारिये
Sāhasī samīra ke dulāre raghubīra jū ke bā~ha pīra mahābīra begi hī nivāriye
Meaning
The world knows whom Hanuman has favoured; weighing Your servant's heart, I am Your sacrifice, do not forget Your word.
In service fit to be given, has Tulsi ever fallen short? Master, it is a monkey's nature; uphold Your own lordship.
If You judge me an offender, punish me a thousand ways; but if a sweet will kill him, do not use poison.
Darling of the bold Wind, beloved of Raghuvira, Mahavira: take away this pain in the arm, and take it away at once.
verse 21
बालक बिलोकि बलि बारें तें आपनो कियो दीनबन्धु दया कीन्हीं निरुपाधि न्यारिये
Bālaka biloki bali bāreṃ teṃ āpano kiyo dīnabandhu dayā kīnhīṃ nirupādhi nyāriye
रावरो भरोसो तुलसी के रावरोई बल आस रावरीयै दास रावरो विचारिये
Rāvaro bharoso tulasī ke rāvaroī bala āsa rāvarīyai dāsa rāvaro vicāriye
बड़ओ बिकराल कलि काको न बिहाल कियो माथे पगु बलि को निहारि सो निबारिये
Bar̤ao bikarāla kali kāko na bihāla kiyo māthe pagu bali ko nihāri so nibāriye
केसरी किसोर रनरोर बरजोर बीर बाँह पीर राहु मातु ज्यौं पछारि मारिये
Kesarī kisora ranarora barajora bīra bā~ha pīra rāhu mātu jyauṃ pachāri māriye
Meaning
Seeing a child, from my earliest years You made me Your own; friend of the helpless, You showed a kindness with no motive in it: mark that.
Yours is Tulsi's trust, Yours alone his strength, Yours his hope, and Yours the servant: consider it.
The Kali age is vast and dreadful: whom has it not undone? See whose foot is on my head, and drive it off.
Kesari's son, roarer in battle, overpowering hero: dash down this pain in the arm and kill it, as You dashed down Rahu's mother.
verse 22
उथपे थपनथिर थपे उथपनहार केसरी कुमार बल आपनो संबारिये
Uthape thapanathira thape uthapanahāra kesarī kumāra bala āpano saṃbāriye
राम के गुलामनि को काम तरु रामदूत मोसे दीन दूबरे को तकिया तिहारिये
Rāma ke gulāmani ko kāma taru rāmadūta mose dīna dūbare ko takiyā tihāriye
साहेब समर्थ तो सों तुलसी के माथे पर सोऊ अपराध बिनु बीर बाँधि मारिये
Sāheba samartha to soṃ tulasī ke māthe para soū aparādha binu bīra bā~dhi māriye
पोखरी बिसाल बाँहु बलि बारिचर पीर मकरी ज्यों पकरि के बदन बिदारिये
Pokharī bisāla bā~hu bali bāricara pīra makarī jyoṃ pakari ke badana bidāriye
Meaning
You make firm what was unseated and unseat what was made firm; son of Kesari, gather up Your own strength.
Wish-tree of Rama's servants, Rama's messenger: for one as poor and frail as I am, You are the only pillow.
With so able a master as You over Tulsi's head, is he still to be bound and beaten without any offence, hero?
My broad arm is the pond and the pain the water-beast in it; seize it as You seized the crocodile and tear its mouth open.
verse 23
राम को सनेह राम साहस लखन सिय राम की भगति सोच संकट निवारिये
Rāma ko saneha rāma sāhasa lakhana siya rāma kī bhagati soca saṃkaṭa nivāriye
मुद मरकट रोग बारिनिधि हेरि हारे जीव जामवंत को भरोसो तेरो भारिये
Muda marakaṭa roga bārinidhi heri hāre jīva jāmavaṃta ko bharoso tero bhāriye
कूदिये कृपाल तुलसी सुप्रेम पब्बयतें सुथल सुबेल भालू बैठि कै विचारिये
Kūdiye kṛpāla tulasī suprema pabbayateṃ suthala subela bhālū baiṭhi kai vicāriye
महाबीर बाँकुरे बराकी बाँह पीर क्यों न लंकिनी ज्यों लात घात ही मरोरि मारिये
Mahābīra bā~kure barākī bā~ha pīra kyoṃ na laṃkinī jyoṃ lāta ghāta hī marori māriye
Meaning
By love for Rama, by Rama's own courage, by Lakshmana and Sita, by devotion to Rama: drive away this anxiety and distress.
Joy is the monkey host, the disease an ocean; the creature has looked at it and despaired: Jambavan's whole trust rests on You.
Leap, compassionate one, from the mountain of Tulsi's true love; the bear sat on the fair slope of Suvela and took counsel.
Gallant Mahavira, why not wring this wretched arm-pain and kill it with one kick, as You did Lankini?
verse 24
लोक परलोकहुँ तिलोक न विलोकियत तोसे समरथ चष चारिहूँ निहारिये
Loka paralokahu~ tiloka na vilokiyata tose samaratha caṣa cārihū~ nihāriye
कर्म काल लोकपाल अग जग जीवजाल नाथ हाथ सब निज महिमा बिचारिये
Karma kāla lokapāla aga jaga jīvajāla nātha hātha saba nija mahimā bicāriye
खास दास रावरो निवास तेरो तासु उर तुलसी सो देव दुखी देखिअत भारिये
Khāsa dāsa rāvaro nivāsa tero tāsu ura tulasī so deva dukhī dekhiata bhāriye
बात तरुमूल बाँहूसूल कपिकच्छु बेलि उपजी सकेलि कपि केलि ही उखारिये
Bāta tarumūla bā~hūsūla kapikacchu beli upajī sakeli kapi keli hī ukhāriye
Meaning
In this world, in the next and in all three worlds, look where You will: none as able as You is to be seen.
Karma, Time, the world-guardians, the whole web of moving and unmoving life: all are in Your hand, lord; consider Your own greatness.
He is Your own particular servant and Your dwelling is in his heart; yet Tulsi, O god, is seen to be grievously afflicted.
Wind is the root of the tree and the arm's ache the itching creeper grown on it; gather it up, monkey, and uproot it in play.
verse 25
करम कराल कंस भूमिपाल के भरोसे बकी बक भगिनी काहू तें कहा डरैगी
Karama karāla kaṃsa bhūmipāla ke bharose bakī baka bhaginī kāhū teṃ kahā ḍaraigī
बड़ई बिकराल बाल घातिनी न जात कहि बाँहू बल बालक छबीले छोटे छरैगी
Bar̤aī bikarāla bāla ghātinī na jāta kahi bā~hū bala bālaka chabīle choṭe charaigī
आई है बनाई बेष आप ही बिचारि देख पाप जाय सब को गुनी के पाले परैगी
Āī hai banāī beṣa āpa hī bicāri dekha pāpa jāya saba ko gunī ke pāle paraigī
पूतना पिसाचिनी ज्यौं कपि कान्ह तुलसी की बाँह पीर महाबीर तेरे मारे मरैगी
Pūtanā pisācinī jyauṃ kapi kānha tulasī kī bā~ha pīra mahābīra tere māre maraigī
Meaning
Trusting in cruel Karma, that king Kansa, why should Baki, sister of Baka, fear anyone at all?
Vast and dreadful, a killer of children beyond telling, she will cheat handsome little boys by the strength of her arms.
She has come in disguise: think and see for Yourself. Her sin will be undone, for she will fall into the hands of one who knows the craft.
As Putana the demoness died at Krishna's hands, monkey, so Tulsi's arm-pain will die when Mahavira strikes it.
verse 26
भाल की कि काल की कि रोष की त्रिदोष की है बेदन बिषम पाप ताप छल छाँह की
Bhāla kī ki kāla kī ki roṣa kī tridoṣa kī hai bedana biṣama pāpa tāpa chala chā~ha kī
करमन कूट की कि जन्त्र मन्त्र बूट की पराहि जाहि पापिनी मलीन मन माँह की
Karamana kūṭa kī ki jantra mantra būṭa kī parāhi jāhi pāpinī malīna mana mā~ha kī
पैहहि सजाय नत कहत बजाय तोहि बाबरी न होहि बानि जानि कपि नाँह की
Paihahi sajāya nata kahata bajāya tohi bābarī na hohi bāni jāni kapi nā~ha kī
आन हनुमान की दुहाई बलवान की सपथ महाबीर की जो रहै पीर बाँह की
Āna hanumāna kī duhāī balavāna kī sapatha mahābīra kī jo rahai pīra bā~ha kī
Meaning
Is it of the forehead, or of Time, or of anger, or of the three humours? A cruel ache it is, of sin, of fever, of trickery, of some shadow.
Is it of some hidden deed, or of spell, charm and root? Be gone, you sinful thing that lives in a foul mind.
You will be punished, or else I say it out loud to you: do not be mad, learn what the monkey-lord's way is.
I invoke Hanuman, I swear by the mighty one, I take the oath of Mahavira: if the pain in the arm remains.
verse 27
सिंहिका सँहारि बल सुरसा सुधारि छल लंकिनी पछारि मारि बाटिका उजारी है
Siṃhikā sa~hāri bala surasā sudhāri chala laṃkinī pachāri māri bāṭikā ujārī hai
लंक परजारि मकरी बिदारि बार बार जातुधान धारि धूरि धानी करि डारी है
Laṃka parajāri makarī bidāri bāra bāra jātudhāna dhāri dhūri dhānī kari ḍārī hai
तोरि जमकातरि मंदोदरी कठोरि आनी रावन की रानी मेघनाद महतारी है
Tori jamakātari maṃdodarī kaṭhori ānī rāvana kī rānī meghanāda mahatārī hai
भीर बाँह पीर की निपट राखी महाबीर कौन के सकोच तुलसी के सोच भारी है
Bhīra bā~ha pīra kī nipaṭa rākhī mahābīra kauna ke sakoca tulasī ke soca bhārī hai
Meaning
You destroyed Simhika by force, dealt with Sursa by a trick, felled and killed Lankini and laid the garden waste.
You burned Lanka, tore the crocodile apart, and again and again ground the demon hosts to dust.
You broke Yama's dagger and dragged Mandodari off by force, Ravana's queen and Meghanada's mother.
Yet the crowding pain of the arm You have let stand, Mahavira: out of consideration for whom? Tulsi's anxiety is heavy.
verse 28
तेरो बालि केलि बीर सुनि सहमत धीर भूलत सरीर सुधि सक्र रवि राहु की
Tero bāli keli bīra suni sahamata dhīra bhūlata sarīra sudhi sakra ravi rāhu kī
तेरी बाँह बसत बिसोक लोक पाल सब तेरो नाम लेत रहैं आरति न काहु की
Terī bā~ha basata bisoka loka pāla saba tero nāma leta rahaiṃ ārati na kāhu kī
साम दाम भेद विधि बेदहू लबेद सिधि हाथ कपिनाथ ही के चोटी चोर साहु की
Sāma dāma bheda vidhi bedahū labeda sidhi hātha kapinātha hī ke coṭī cora sāhu kī
आलस अनख परिहास कै सिखावन है एते दिन रही पीर तुलसी के बाहु की
Ālasa anakha parihāsa kai sikhāvana hai ete dina rahī pīra tulasī ke bāhu kī
Meaning
Hearing of Your childhood play, hero, the steadfast are dismayed; Indra, the Sun and Rahu forget the very sense of their bodies.
Where Your arm rests, all the world-guardians live free of sorrow; those who take Your name are left with no distress at all.
Conciliation, gift and division, the Veda's own methods and the ways of attainment: all are in the monkey-lord's hand, the crown of the honest and of the thief alike.
Is it out of idleness, or vexation, or by way of jest, or is it a lesson, that Tulsi's arm has been in pain so many days?
verse 29
टूकनि को घर घर डोलत कँगाल बोलि बाल ज्यों कृपाल नत पाल पालि पोसो है
Ṭūkani ko ghara ghara ḍolata ka~gāla boli bāla jyoṃ kṛpāla nata pāla pāli poso hai
कीन्ही है सँभार सार अँजनी कुमार बीर आपनो बिसारि हैं न मेरेहू भरोसो है
Kīnhī hai sa~bhāra sāra a~janī kumāra bīra āpano bisāri haiṃ na merehū bharoso hai
इतनो परेखो सब भान्ति समरथ आजु कपिराज सांची कहौं को तिलोक तोसो है
Itano parekho saba bhānti samaratha āju kapirāja sāṃcī kahauṃ ko tiloka toso hai
सासति सहत दास कीजे पेखि परिहास चीरी को मरन खेल बालकनि कोसो है
Sāsati sahata dāsa kīje pekhi parihāsa cīrī ko marana khela bālakani koso hai
Meaning
A beggar wandering house to house for scraps: You called him as one calls a child, compassionate one, and reared and fed the one who bowed to You.
You have taken all the care there was, son of Anjani, hero; You will not forget Your own, and my trust does not fail either.
This much is my complaint: You are able in every way, monkey-king; I say it truly, who in the three worlds is like You?
The servant bears the punishment while You look on it as sport; but killing an ant is play only to children.
verse 30
आपने ही पाप तें त्रिपात तें कि साप तें बढ़ई है बाँह बेदन कही न सहि जाति है
Āpane hī pāpa teṃ tripāta teṃ ki sāpa teṃ bar̤haī hai bā~ha bedana kahī na sahi jāti hai
औषध अनेक जन्त्र मन्त्र टोटकादि किये बादि भये देवता मनाये अधीकाति है
Auṣadha aneka jantra mantra ṭoṭakādi kiye bādi bhaye devatā manāye adhīkāti hai
करतार भरतार हरतार कर्म काल को है जगजाल जो न मानत इताति है
Karatāra bharatāra haratāra karma kāla ko hai jagajāla jo na mānata itāti hai
चेरो तेरो तुलसी तू मेरो कह्यो राम दूत ढील तेरी बीर मोहि पीर तें पिराति है
Cero tero tulasī tū mero kahyo rāma dūta ḍhīla terī bīra mohi pīra teṃ pirāti hai
Meaning
Whether from my own sin, or from the three afflictions, or from a curse, the ache in the arm has grown past bearing, and cannot be told.
Many medicines, charms, spells and counter-charms I have tried, and all went for nothing; the gods were propitiated and it only grew worse.
Creator, sustainer, destroyer, karma and Time: it is the world's whole web, and whoever will not accept it, so much the worse.
Tulsi is Your servant, and You said Yourself, Rama's messenger, that You are mine; hero, Your delay is a worse pain to me than the pain.
verse 31
दूत राम राय को सपूत पूत वाय को समत्व हाथ पाय को सहाय असहाय को
Dūta rāma rāya ko sapūta pūta vāya ko samatva hātha pāya ko sahāya asahāya ko
बाँकी बिरदावली बिदित बेद गाइयत रावन सो भट भयो मुठिका के धाय को
Bā~kī biradāvalī bidita beda gāiyata rāvana so bhaṭa bhayo muṭhikā ke dhāya ko
एते बडे साहेब समर्थ को निवाजो आज सीदत सुसेवक बचन मन काय को
Ete baḍe sāheba samartha ko nivājo āja sīdata susevaka bacana mana kāya ko
थोरी बाँह पीर की बड़ई गलानि तुलसी को कौन पाप कोप लोप प्रकट प्रभाय को
Thorī bā~ha pīra kī bar̤aī galāni tulasī ko kauna pāpa kopa lopa prakaṭa prabhāya ko
Meaning
Messenger of King Rama, worthy son of the Wind, able in hand and foot, helper of the helpless,
Your gallant roll of titles is known, and the Vedas sing it: that Ravana, such a warrior, fell to the rush of a single fist.
So great and able a master's favour, and yet today a good servant suffers in word, mind and body.
A small pain in the arm, but a great shame; whose sin is it, whose anger, that Tulsi's plain power is hidden away?
verse 32
देवी देव दनुज मनुज मुनि सिद्ध नाग छोटे बड़ए जीव जेते चेतन अचेत हैं
Devī deva danuja manuja muni siddha nāga choṭe bar̤ae jīva jete cetana aceta haiṃ
पूतना पिसाची जातुधानी जातुधान बाग राम दूत की रजाई माथे मानि लेत हैं
Pūtanā pisācī jātudhānī jātudhāna bāga rāma dūta kī rajāī māthe māni leta haiṃ
घोर जन्त्र मन्त्र कूट कपट कुरोग जोग हनुमान आन सुनि छाड़त निकेत हैं
Ghora jantra mantra kūṭa kapaṭa kuroga joga hanumāna āna suni chār̤ata niketa haiṃ
क्रोध कीजे कर्म को प्रबोध कीजे तुलसी को सोध कीजे तिनको जो दोष दुख देत हैं
Krodha kīje karma ko prabodha kīje tulasī ko sodha kīje tinako jo doṣa dukha deta haiṃ
Meaning
Goddesses, gods, demons, men, sages, siddhas and nagas, all living things great and small, conscious and unconscious,
Putana and the she-demons, the demon women and the demons in their throngs: all take Rama's messenger's command upon their heads.
Dire spells and charms, trickery and deceit, foul diseases and afflictions: hearing Hanuman's name invoked, they leave the house.
Turn Your anger on the deed, wake Tulsi to knowledge, and set right those who give him fault and pain.
verse 33
तेरे बल बानर जिताये रन रावन सों तेरे घाले जातुधान भये घर घर के
Tere bala bānara jitāye rana rāvana soṃ tere ghāle jātudhāna bhaye ghara ghara ke
तेरे बल राम राज किये सब सुर काज सकल समाज साज साजे रघुबर के
Tere bala rāma rāja kiye saba sura kāja sakala samāja sāja sāje raghubara ke
तेरो गुनगान सुनि गीरबान पुलकत सजल बिलोचन बिरंचि हरिहर के
Tero gunagāna suni gīrabāna pulakata sajala bilocana biraṃci harihara ke
तुलसी के माथे पर हाथ फेरो कीस नाथ देखिये न दास दुखी तोसो कनिगर के
Tulasī ke māthe para hātha phero kīsa nātha dekhiye na dāsa dukhī toso kanigara ke
Meaning
By Your strength the monkeys won the war against Ravana; by Your blows the demons were finished, household by household.
By Your strength Rama's reign was made and all the gods' work done, and Raghuvara's whole array was set in order.
Hearing Your praises sung, the gods thrill, and the eyes of Brahma, Hari and Hara fill with tears.
Pass Your hand over Tulsi's head, lord of monkeys; do not let a servant of one as great as You be seen in misery.
verse 34
पालो तेरे टूक को परेहू चूक मूकिये न कूर कौड़ई दूको हौं आपनी ओर हेरिये
Pālo tere ṭūka ko parehū cūka mūkiye na kūra kaur̤aī dūko hauṃ āpanī ora heriye
भोरानाथ भोरे ही सरोष होत थोरे दोष पोषि तोषि थापि आपनो न अव डेरिये
Bhorānātha bhore hī saroṣa hota thore doṣa poṣi toṣi thāpi āpano na ava ḍeriye
अँबु तू हौं अँबु चूर अँबु तू हौं डिंभ सो न बूझिये बिलंब अवलंब मेरे तेरिये
A~bu tū hauṃ a~bu cūra a~bu tū hauṃ ḍiṃbha so na būjhiye bilaṃba avalaṃba mere teriye
बालक बिकल जानि पाहि प्रेम पहिचानि तुलसी की बाँह पर लामी लूम फेरिये
Bālaka bikala jāni pāhi prema pahicāni tulasī kī bā~ha para lāmī lūma pheriye
Meaning
I am reared on Your scraps; if I have slipped, do not stay silent; I am not worth a cracked cowrie, so look my way.
Simple lord, You are angry over a small fault out of Your very simplicity; nourish it, be pleased, establish Your own, and do not cast me out now.
You are the mango, I the mango's stone; You are the mango, I the sprout: do not delay, my only support is Yours.
Know the child is distressed and protect him, recognise his love; pass Your long tail over Tulsi's arm.
verse 35
घेरि लियो रोगनि कुजोगनि कुलोगनि ज्यौं बासर जलद घन घटा धुकि धाई है
Gheri liyo rogani kujogani kulogani jyauṃ bāsara jalada ghana ghaṭā dhuki dhāī hai
बरसत बारि पीर जारिये जवासे जस रोष बिनु दोष धूम मूल मलिनाई है
Barasata bāri pīra jāriye javāse jasa roṣa binu doṣa dhūma mūla malināī hai
करुनानिधान हनुमान महा बलवान हेरि हँसि हाँकि फूंकि फौंजै ते उड़आई है
Karunānidhāna hanumāna mahā balavāna heri ha~si hā~ki phūṃki phauṃjai te ur̤aāī hai
खाये हुतो तुलसी कुरोग राढ़ राकसनि केसरी किसोर राखे बीर बरिआई है
Khāye huto tulasī kuroga rār̤ha rākasani kesarī kisora rākhe bīra bariāī hai
Meaning
Diseases, ill conjunctions and ill company have closed in on me, as clouds gather and rush in by day.
The rain that falls burns me like the javasa plant scorched by pain; anger without cause is the smoke, and the root of it is my own foulness.
Store of compassion, Hanuman, greatly strong: with one look, one laugh, one shout and one breath You blew that army away.
The foul disease and its demon rabble had all but eaten Tulsi; Kesari's son, the hero, has kept him by main force.
verse 36
राम गुलाम तु ही हनुमान गोसाँई सुसाँई सदा अनुकूलो
Rāma gulāma tu hī hanumāna gosā~ī susā~ī sadā anukūlo
पाल्यो हौं बाल ज्यों आखर दू पितु मातु सों मंगल मोद समूलो
Pālyo hauṃ bāla jyoṃ ākhara dū pitu mātu soṃ maṃgala moda samūlo
बाँह की बेदन बाँह पगार पुकारत आरत आनँद भूलो
Bā~ha kī bedana bā~ha pagāra pukārata ārata āna~da bhūlo
श्री रघुबीर निवारिये पीर रहौं दरबार परो लटि लूलो
Śrī raghubīra nivāriye pīra rahauṃ darabāra paro laṭi lūlo
Meaning
Rama's servant, You alone, Hanuman Gosain, a good master and always favourable,
You reared me like a child; from two syllables came father, mother, well-being and joy, root and all.
The ache of the arm cries out from the arm itself; distressed, I have forgotten what joy is.
Shri Raghuvira, take away the pain; let me stay at Your court, fallen and lamed as I am.
verse 37
काल की करालता करम कठिनाई कीधौ पाप के प्रभाव की सुभाय बाय बावरे
Kāla kī karālatā karama kaṭhināī kīdhau pāpa ke prabhāva kī subhāya bāya bāvare
बेदन कुभाँति सो सही न जाति राति दिन सोई बाँह गही जो गही समीर डाबरे
Bedana kubhā~ti so sahī na jāti rāti dina soī bā~ha gahī jo gahī samīra ḍābare
लायो तरु तुलसी तिहारो सो निहारि बारि सींचिये मलीन भो तयो है तिहुँ तावरे
Lāyo taru tulasī tihāro so nihāri bāri sīṃciye malīna bho tayo hai tihu~ tāvare
भूतनि की आपनी पराये की कृपा निधान जानियत सबही की रीति राम रावरे
Bhūtani kī āpanī parāye kī kṛpā nidhāna jāniyata sabahī kī rīti rāma rāvare
Meaning
Is it Time's cruelty, or the hardness of karma, or the effect of sin, or is the wind itself gone mad?
The pain of this evil kind cannot be borne, night or day; that same arm was seized which the Wind's son had held.
Tulsi is a tree You planted: look at it and water it; it is withered, scorched by the three fevers.
Of spirits and of one's own and of others: store of compassion, the ways of all are known to You, Rama's own.
verse 38
पाँय पीर पेट पीर बाँह पीर मुंह पीर जर जर सकल पीर मई है
Pā~ya pīra peṭa pīra bā~ha pīra muṃha pīra jara jara sakala pīra maī hai
देव भूत पितर करम खल काल ग्रह मोहि पर दवरि दमानक सी दई है
Deva bhūta pitara karama khala kāla graha mohi para davari damānaka sī daī hai
हौं तो बिनु मोल के बिकानो बलि बारे हीतें ओट राम नाम की ललाट लिखि लई है
Hauṃ to binu mola ke bikāno bali bāre hīteṃ oṭa rāma nāma kī lalāṭa likhi laī hai
कुँभज के किंकर बिकल बूढ़ए गोखुरनि हाय राम राय ऐसी हाल कहूँ भई है
Ku~bhaja ke kiṃkara bikala būr̤hae gokhurani hāya rāma rāya aisī hāla kahū~ bhaī hai
Meaning
Pain in the feet, pain in the belly, pain in the arm, pain in the mouth: worn out, I have become all pain.
Gods, spirits, ancestors, karma, the wicked, Time and the planets have all fallen upon me like a squall of hail.
I was sold without price from childhood; the shelter of Rama's name is written on my forehead.
Kumbhaja's servants, wretched and worn, drowning in cow's-hoof puddles: alas, King Rama, has such a state ever been?
verse 39
बाहुक सुबाहु नीच लीचर मरीच मिलि मुँह पीर केतुजा कुरोग जातुधान है
Bāhuka subāhu nīca līcara marīca mili mu~ha pīra ketujā kuroga jātudhāna hai
राम नाम जप जाग कियो चहों सानुराग काल कैसे दूत भूत कहा मेरे मान है
Rāma nāma japa jāga kiyo cahoṃ sānurāga kāla kaise dūta bhūta kahā mere māna hai
सुमिरे सहाय राम लखन आखर दौऊ जिनके समूह साके जागत जहान है
Sumire sahāya rāma lakhana ākhara dauū jinake samūha sāke jāgata jahāna hai
तुलसी सँभारि ताडका सँहारि भारि भट बेधे बरगद से बनाई बानवान है
Tulasī sa~bhāri tāḍakā sa~hāri bhāri bhaṭa bedhe baragada se banāī bānavāna hai
Meaning
Bahuka, Subahu, the low Lichara and Maricha together: the pain in the mouth is a comet, the foul disease a demon.
I mean to make a sacrifice of repeating Rama's name with love: what are Time's messengers and spirits to me then?
Remembered, Rama and Lakshmana are my help, and those two syllables whose hosts keep the whole world awake.
Tulsi, take heart: He who destroyed Tadaka and pierced great warriors as though they were banyans has made His arrows ready.
verse 40
बालपने सूधे मन राम सनमुख भयो राम नाम लेत माँगि खात टूक टाक हौं
Bālapane sūdhe mana rāma sanamukha bhayo rāma nāma leta mā~gi khāta ṭūka ṭāka hauṃ
परयो लोक रीति में पुनीत प्रीति राम राय मोह बस बैठो तोरि तरकि तराक हौं
Parayo loka rīti meṃ punīta prīti rāma rāya moha basa baiṭho tori taraki tarāka hauṃ
खोटे खोटे आचरन आचरत अपनायो अंजनी कुमार सोध्यो रामपानि पाक हौं
Khoṭe khoṭe ācarana ācarata apanāyo aṃjanī kumāra sodhyo rāmapāni pāka hauṃ
तुलसी गुसाँई भयो भोंडे दिन भूल गयो ताको फल पावत निदान परिपाक हौं
Tulasī gusā~ī bhayo bhoṃḍe dina bhūla gayo tāko phala pāvata nidāna paripāka hauṃ
Meaning
In childhood, with a straight heart, I turned to face Rama; taking Rama's name I begged and ate my scraps.
Then I fell into the ways of the world, and the pure love of King Rama I broke off in delusion and sprang away.
Practising one bad conduct after another, still the son of Anjani took me as His own and made me fit for Rama's hand.
Tulsi became a gosain, and in bad days he forgot; now at the ripening I am getting the fruit of that.
verse 41
असन बसन हीन बिषम बिषाद लीन देखि दीन दूबरो करै न हाय हाय को
Asana basana hīna biṣama biṣāda līna dekhi dīna dūbaro karai na hāya hāya ko
तुलसी अनाथ सो सनाथ रघुनाथ कियो दियो फल सील सिंधु आपने सुभाय को
Tulasī anātha so sanātha raghunātha kiyo diyo phala sīla siṃdhu āpane subhāya ko
नीच यहि बीच पति पाइ भरु हाईगो बिहाइ प्रभु भजन बचन मन काय को
Nīca yahi bīca pati pāi bharu hāīgo bihāi prabhu bhajana bacana mana kāya ko
ता तें तनु पेषियत घोर बरतोर मिस फूटि फूटि निकसत लोन राम राय को
Tā teṃ tanu peṣiyata ghora baratora misa phūṭi phūṭi nikasata lona rāma rāya ko
Meaning
Without food, without clothing, sunk in bitter grief: seeing one so poor and frail, who would not cry out in pity?
Raghunatha made that orphaned Tulsi His own and gave him the fruit, out of His own nature, ocean of good conduct.
The low man, having gained standing in the meanwhile, grew heavy with it and let go of the Lord's worship in word, mind and body.
That is why the body is seen covered in dreadful boils, and King Rama's salt keeps bursting out of it.
verse 42
जीओ जग जानकीजीवन को कहाइ जन मरिबे को बारानसी बारि सुरसरि को
Jīo jaga jānakījīvana ko kahāi jana maribe ko bārānasī bāri surasari ko
तुलसी के दोहूँ हाथ मोदक हैं ऐसे ठाँऊ जाके जिये मुये सोच करिहैं न लरि को
Tulasī ke dohū~ hātha modaka haiṃ aise ṭhā~ū jāke jiye muye soca karihaiṃ na lari ko
मोको झूँटो साँचो लोग राम कौ कहत सब मेरे मन मान है न हर को न हरि को
Moko jhū~ṭo sā~co loga rāma kau kahata saba mere mana māna hai na hara ko na hari ko
भारी पीर दुसह सरीर तें बिहाल होत सोऊ रघुबीर बिनु सकै दूर करि को
Bhārī pīra dusaha sarīra teṃ bihāla hota soū raghubīra binu sakai dūra kari ko
Meaning
Let me live in the world called Janaki's Life, and for dying, Varanasi and the waters of the Ganga.
Tulsi has sweets in both hands in such a place: whoever lives or dies there, no one need grieve or quarrel.
Let people call me false or true, everyone says I am Rama's; in my own mind there is regard for neither Hara nor Hari.
The heavy pain, unbearable, leaves the body wretched; and who but Raghuvira can take it away?
verse 43
सीतापति साहेब सहाय हनुमान नित हित उपदेश को महेस मानो गुरु कै
Sītāpati sāheba sahāya hanumāna nita hita upadeśa ko mahesa māno guru kai
मानस बचन काय सरन तिहारे पाँय तुम्हरे भरोसे सुर मैं न जाने सुर कै
Mānasa bacana kāya sarana tihāre pā~ya tumhare bharose sura maiṃ na jāne sura kai
ब्याधि भूत जनित उपाधि काहु खल की समाधि की जै तुलसी को जानि जन फुर कै
Byādhi bhūta janita upādhi kāhu khala kī samādhi kī jai tulasī ko jāni jana phura kai
कपिनाथ रघुनाथ भोलानाथ भूतनाथ रोग सिंधु क्यों न डारियत गाय खुर कै
Kapinātha raghunātha bholānātha bhūtanātha roga siṃdhu kyoṃ na ḍāriyata gāya khura kai
Meaning
Sita's lord is my master, Hanuman my constant help, and Mahesha I hold as my guru for his teaching of what is good.
In thought, word and body I take refuge at Your feet; trusting You, I have known no other god as god.
Whether the trouble comes of disease or of spirits or of some wicked man, settle it; know Tulsi for a servant in truth.
Lord of monkeys, Raghunatha, Bholanatha, lord of spirits: why not throw this ocean of disease away with a cow's hoof?
verse 44
कहों हनुमान सों सुजान राम राय सों कृपानिधान संकर सों सावधान सुनिये
Kahoṃ hanumāna soṃ sujāna rāma rāya soṃ kṛpānidhāna saṃkara soṃ sāvadhāna suniye
हरष विषाद राग रोष गुन दोष मई बिरची बिरञ्ची सब देखियत दुनिये
Haraṣa viṣāda rāga roṣa guna doṣa maī biracī birañcī saba dekhiyata duniye
माया जीव काल के करम के सुभाय के करैया राम बेद कहें साँची मन गुनिये
Māyā jīva kāla ke karama ke subhāya ke karaiyā rāma beda kaheṃ sā~cī mana guniye
तुम्ह तें कहा न होय हा हा सो बुझैये मोहिं हौं हूँ रहों मौनही वयो सो जानि लुनिये
Tumha teṃ kahā na hoya hā hā so bujhaiye mohiṃ hauṃ hū~ rahoṃ maunahī vayo so jāni luniye
Meaning
I say it to Hanuman, to the discerning King Rama, to Shankara the store of compassion: listen with care.
Joy and sorrow, passion and anger, virtue and fault: the whole world is seen to be made of these, and Brahma fashioned it so.
Maya, the living being, Time, karma and their natures: Rama is the maker of them all, so the Vedas say, and the mind should hold it true.
What is there that You cannot do? Alas, make me understand that; and I too will stay silent, knowing that whatever is sown is reaped.
colophon
इति श्रीमद्गोस्वामितुलसीदासकृत हनुमानबाहुक॥
Iti śrīmad-gosvāmī-tulasīdāsa-kṛta hanumāna-bāhuka
Meaning
Thus the Hanuman Bahuk composed by the revered Goswami Tulsidas.
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