Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 26

Meaning of “saṅkaṭ teṁ hanumān chuṛāvai”

"saṅkaṭ teṁ hanumān chuṛāvai" is Chaupai 26 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Hanuman frees from trouble whoever keeps him in mind, in thought, in deed and in word. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.

संकट तें हनुमान छुड़ावै ।मन क्रम बचन ध्यान जो लावै ॥saṅkaṭ teṁ hanumān chuṛāvaiman kram bacan dhyān jo lāvai

Hanuman frees from trouble whoever keeps him in mind, in thought, in deed and in word.

Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 26, Gita Press reading

Word by word

संकटsaṅkaṭ
trouble
तेंteṁ
from
हनुमानhanumān
Hanuman
छुड़ावैchuṛāvai
frees
मनman
thought
क्रमkram
deed
बचनbacan
word
ध्यानdhyān
attention
जोjo
whoever
लावैlāvai
fixes on him

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.