Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 37

Meaning of “jai jai jai hanumān gosāīṁ”

"jai jai jai hanumān gosāīṁ" is Chaupai 37 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Victory, victory, victory to you, Hanuman, my master. Be kind to me as a guru is kind. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.

जै जै जै हनुमान गोसाईं ।कृपा करहु गुरु देव की नाईं ॥jai jai jai hanumān gosāīṁkṛpā karahu guru dev kī nāīṁ

Victory, victory, victory to you, Hanuman, my master. Be kind to me as a guru is kind.

Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 37, Gita Press reading

Word by word

जैjai
victory
जैjai
victory
जैjai
victory
हनुमानhanumān
Hanuman
गोसाईंgosāīṁ
master, lord
कृपाkṛpā
kindness
करहुkarahu
please show
गुरुguru
guru
देवdev
revered
की नाईंkī nāīṁ
like

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

  • Many sing जय जय जय. Rambhadracharya's Mahaviri prints गुरुदेव as one word.

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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.