Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 34

Meaning of “ant kāl raghubar pur jāī”

"ant kāl raghubar pur jāī" is Chaupai 34 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: At the end that person goes to Rama's abode, and wherever they are born again they are known as a devotee of Hari.

अंत काल रघुबर पुर जाई ।जहाँ जन्म हरि-भक्त कहाई ॥ant kāl raghubar pur jāījahāṁ janma hari-bhakt kahāī

At the end that person goes to Rama's abode, and wherever they are born again they are known as a devotee of Hari.

Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 34, Gita Press reading

Word by word

अंतant
end
कालkāl
time
रघुबरraghubar
Rama's
पुरpur
abode
जाईjāī
goes to
जहाँjahāṁ
wherever
जन्मjanma
born
हरि-भक्तhari-bhakt
devotee of Hari
कहाईkahāī
is called

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 prints हरि-भगत.

The same thought in the Gita

Krishna says that whoever leaves the body remembering him at the end comes to him. Read Bhagavad Gita 8.5

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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.