तुलसीदास सदा हरि चेरा ।कीजै नाथ हृदय महँ डेरा ॥tulsīdās sadā hari cerākījai nāth hṛday mahaṁ ḍerā
Tulsidas is forever Hari's servant. Lord, make your home in my heart.
Tulsidas, Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 40, Gita Press reading
Hanuman Chalisa, Chaupai 40
Meaning of “tulsīdās sadā hari cerā”
"tulsīdās sadā hari cerā" is Chaupai 40 of the Hanuman Chalisa, which Tulsidas wrote in Awadhi. It means: Tulsidas is forever Hari's servant. Lord, make your home in my heart. Read it slowly, one half at a time, and say the Awadhi aloud.
Word by word
- तुलसीदासtulsīdās
- Tulsidas
- सदाsadā
- always
- हरिhari
- Hari's
- चेराcerā
- servant
- कीजैkījai
- please make
- नाथnāth
- Lord
- हृदयhṛday
- heart
- महँmahaṁ
- in
- डेराḍerā
- your home
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.