Original text
जयति जय गायत्री माता, जयति जय गायत्री माता। आदि शक्ति तुम अलख निरंजन जग पालन कर्त्री। दुःख शोक भय क्लेश कलह दारिद्र्य दैन्य हर्त्री॥१॥ ब्रह्मरूपिणी, प्रणत पालिनी, जगत धातृ अम्बे। भव-भय हारी, जन हितकारी, सुखदा जगदम्बे॥२॥ भयहारिणि, भवतारिणि, अनघे अज आनन्द राशी। अविकारी, अघहरी, अविचलित, अमले, अविनाशी॥३॥ कामधेनु सत-चित-आनन्दा जय गंगा गीता। सविता की शाश्वती, शक्ति तुम सावित्री सीता॥४॥ ऋग्, यजु, साम, अथर्व, प्रणयिनी, प्रणव महामहिमे। कुण्डलिनी सहस्रार सुषुम्ना शोभा गुण गरिमे॥५॥ स्वाहा, स्वधा, शची, ब्रह्माणी, राधा, रुद्राणी। जय सतरूपा वाणी, विद्या, कमला, कल्याणी॥६॥ जननी हम हैं दीन, हीन, दुःख दारिद के घेरे। यदपि कुटिल, कपटी कपूत तऊ बालक हैं तेरे॥७॥ स्नेह सनी करुणामयि माता चरण शरण दीजै। बिलख रहे हम शिशु सुत तेरे दया दृष्टि कीजै॥८॥ काम, क्रोध, मद, लोभ, दम्भ, दुर्भाव द्वेष हरिये। शुद्ध, बुद्धि, निष्पाप हृदय, मन को पवित्र करिये॥९॥ तुम समर्थ सब भाँति तारिणी, तुष्टि, पुष्टि त्राता। सत मारग पर हमें चलाओ जो है सुखदाता॥१०॥ जयति जय गायत्री माता, जयति जय गायत्री माता॥
Transliteration
Jayati jai Gayatri Mata, jayati jai Gayatri Mata. Aadi shakti tum alakh niranjan jag paalan kartri. Dukh shok bhay klesh kalah daaridrya dainya hartri. (1) Brahmaroopini, pranat paalini, jagat dhaatri Ambe. Bhav-bhay haari, jan hitkaari, sukhda Jagdambe. (2) Bhayhaarini, bhavtaarini, anaghe aj aanand raashi. Avikaari, aghahari, avichalit, amale, avinaashi. (3) Kaamdhenu sat-chit-aananda jai Ganga Geeta. Savita ki shaashvati, shakti tum Savitri Sita. (4) Rig, Yaju, Saam, Atharva, pranayini, pranav mahamahime. Kundalini sahasraar sushumna shobha gun garime. (5) Swaha, Swadha, Shachi, Brahmani, Radha, Rudrani. Jai Satroopa Vaani, Vidya, Kamla, Kalyani. (6) Janani hum hain deen, heen, dukh daarid ke ghere. Yadapi kutil, kapati kapoot tau baalak hain tere. (7) Sneh sani karunamayi Mata charan sharan deejai. Bilakh rahe hum shishu sut tere daya drishti keejai. (8) Kaam, krodh, mad, lobh, dambh, durbhaav dvesh hariye. Shuddh buddhi, nishpaap hriday, man ko pavitra kariye. (9) Tum samarth sab bhaanti taarini, tushti, pushti traata. Sat maarag par hamen chalaao jo hai sukhdaata. (10) Jayati jai Gayatri Mata, jayati jai Gayatri Mata.
An aarti that asks for a clear mind
The last stanza sets the tone: sat marag par hamen chalao, jo hai sukhdata, "lead us on the true path, the one that truly gives happiness". It is the Gayatri Mantra's own prayer, "may she inspire our understanding", put into simple Hindi. The aarti is sung across north India and especially at centres of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, the movement that made Gayatri worship open to all; the text here follows the version printed in the Pariwar's own Gayatri Chalisa booklet.
What the stanzas praise
- The primordial power (1–3): she is Adi Shakti, invisible and stainless, who creates and sustains the world and takes away sorrow, fear, strife, poverty and despair. She is Brahman in form, protector of those who bow, mother who upholds the world.
- Pure and unchanging (3): sinless, unborn, a mass of bliss, without change, remover of sin, unshakeable, spotless, imperishable.
- Every sacred thing (4–6): she is the wish-fulfilling cow Kamadhenu, Sat-Chit-Ananda, the Ganga and the Gita; the eternal power of Savitr, the sun, which is why she is also Savitri; the inspirer of the four Vedas and the glory of Om. She is the kundalini, rising through the sushumna to the thousand-petalled lotus.
- Every goddess (6): Svaha and Svadha, Shachi, Brahmani, Radha, Rudrani, Shatarupa, Vani, Vidya and Kamala. Like the Gayatri Stotram, the aarti sees all goddesses as her forms.
- The child's plea (7–10): "Mother, we are poor and helpless, surrounded by sorrow; though we are crooked, deceitful, bad sons, we are still your children." Then the prayer that sums it all up (9): "take away lust, anger, pride, greed, hypocrisy, ill will and hatred; make our intellect pure, our heart sinless and our mind holy."
When to sing it
Sing it at the end of morning or evening Gayatri worship: after Gayatri Mantra japa, the Gayatri Stotram and the Gayatri Chalisa. It is central on Gayatri Jayanti, at the close of a Gayatri anushthana or havan, and through Navratri. Wave a ghee lamp before her picture as you sing, and offer the flame to everyone at the end.
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