साधु संत के तुम रखवारे ।असुर निकंदन राम दुलारे ॥sādhu sant ke tum rakhvāreasur nikandan rām dulāre
You protect the good and the saints. You destroy the asuras, and Rama holds you dear.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 30, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 30
Meaning of “sādhu sant ke tum rakhvāre”
"sādhu sant ke tum rakhvāre" is Chaupai 30 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: You protect the good and the saints. You destroy the asuras, and Rama holds you dear. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- साधुsādhu
- the good
- संतsant
- saints
- केke
- of
- तुमtum
- you
- रखवारेrakhvāre
- protector
- असुरasur
- asuras
- निकंदनnikandan
- destroyer
- रामrām
- Rama's
- दुलारेdulāre
- beloved
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.