संकट कटै मिटै सब पीरा ।जो सुमिरै हनुमत बलबीरा ॥saṅkaṭ kaṭai miṭai sab pīrājo sumirai hanumat balbīrā
Troubles are cut away and all pain ends for whoever remembers Hanuman, the strong hero.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 36, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 36
Meaning of “saṅkaṭ kaṭai miṭai sab pīrā”
"saṅkaṭ kaṭai miṭai sab pīrā" is Chaupai 36 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Troubles are cut away and all pain ends for whoever remembers Hanuman, the strong hero. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- संकटsaṅkaṭ
- troubles
- कटैkaṭai
- are cut away
- मिटैmiṭai
- ends
- सबsab
- all
- पीराpīrā
- pain
- जोjo
- whoever
- सुमिरैsumirai
- remembers
- हनुमतhanumat
- Hanuman
- बलबीराbalbīrā
- the strong hero
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.