दुर्गम काज जगत के जेते ।सुगम अनुग्रह तुम्हरे तेते ॥durgam kāj jagat ke jetesugam anugrah tumhare tete
However many hard tasks there are in the world, your grace makes every one of them easy.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 20, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 20
Meaning of “durgam kāj jagat ke jete”
"durgam kāj jagat ke jete" is Chaupai 20 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: However many hard tasks there are in the world, your grace makes every one of them easy. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- दुर्गमdurgam
- hard
- काजkāj
- tasks
- जगत केjagat ke
- in the world
- जेतेjete
- as many as there are
- सुगमsugam
- easy
- अनुग्रहanugrah
- grace
- तुम्हरेtumhare
- your
- तेतेtete
- that many
Where this happens in the Ramayana
This line praises Hanuman or speaks to the reader. It does not retell one episode, so there is no single place in the Ramayana to point to.
Sources and method
Awadhi text: Goswami Tulsidas, Gita Press reading, checked against three Gita Press printings and Rambhadracharya's Mahaviri. English meaning and word glosses: Wisdom's own, following the traditional reading, edited by Ankur Shukla.