और मनोरथ जो कोइ लावै ।सोइ अमित जीवन फल पावै ॥aur manorath jo koi lāvaisoi amit jīvan phal pāvai
Whoever brings you any other wish receives it, and with it the boundless fruit of life.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 28, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 28
Meaning of “aur manorath jo koi lāvai”
"aur manorath jo koi lāvai" is Chaupai 28 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Whoever brings you any other wish receives it, and with it the boundless fruit of life. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- औरaur
- any other
- मनोरथmanorath
- wish
- जो कोइjo koi
- whoever
- लावैlāvai
- brings
- सोइsoi
- that very thing
- अमितamit
- boundless
- जीवनjīvan
- life's
- फलphal
- fruit
- पावैpāvai
- receives
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.
Other readings
- Rambhadracharya's Mahaviri reads तासु for सोइ. Some printings have कोई for कोइ.
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.