Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 25

Meaning of “nāsai rog harai sab pīrā”

"nāsai rog harai sab pīrā" is Chaupai 25 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Illness is destroyed and every pain taken away for one who repeats the name of brave Hanuman without a break. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.

नासै रोग हरै सब पीरा ।जपत निरंतर हनुमत बीरा ॥nāsai rog harai sab pīrājapat nirantar hanumat bīrā

Illness is destroyed and every pain taken away for one who repeats the name of brave Hanuman without a break.

Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 25, Gita Press reading

Word by word

नासैnāsai
destroys
रोगrog
illness
हरैharai
takes away
सबsab
all
पीराpīrā
pain
जपतjapat
repeating
निरंतरnirantar
without a break
हनुमतhanumat
Hanuman
बीराbīrā
the brave

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.

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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.