राम दुआरे तुम रखवारे ।होत न आज्ञा बिनु पैसारे ॥rām duāre tum rakhvārehot na ājñā binu paisāre
You guard Rama's door. No one enters without your leave.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 21, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 21
Meaning of “rām duāre tum rakhvāre”
"rām duāre tum rakhvāre" is Chaupai 21 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: You guard Rama's door. No one enters without your leave. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- रामrām
- Rama's
- दुआरेduāre
- at the door
- तुमtum
- you
- रखवारेrakhvāre
- guard
- होत नhot na
- there is no
- आज्ञाājñā
- leave
- बिनुbinu
- without
- पैसारेpaisāre
- entry
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.