भूत पिसाच निकट नहिं आवै ।महाबीर जब नाम सुनावै ॥bhūt pisāc nikaṭ nahiṁ āvaimahābīr jab nām sunāvai
Ghosts and evil spirits do not come near when someone speaks the name of the great hero.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 24, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 24
Meaning of “bhūt pisāc nikaṭ nahiṁ āvai”
"bhūt pisāc nikaṭ nahiṁ āvai" is Chaupai 24 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Ghosts and evil spirits do not come near when someone speaks the name of the great hero. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- भूतbhūt
- ghosts
- पिसाचpisāc
- evil spirits
- निकटnikaṭ
- near
- नहिंnahiṁ
- do not
- आवैāvai
- come
- महाबीरmahābīr
- the great hero
- जबjab
- when
- नामnām
- name
- सुनावैsunāvai
- speaks
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.