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Kabir's Aarti: Aisi Arati Tribhuvan Tarai: Text, Transliteration and Meaning
Aarti · 5 verses · original in Hindi
About Kabir's Aarti: Aisi Arati Tribhuvan Tarai
A nirguna aarti by Sant Kabir in which the lamp, flowers and bell become inner practices: the senses are the flowers, knowledge is the lamp, the sound of the Word is the bell, and the aarti is offered to the formless, stainless God (Niranjan). The closing line names Kabir.
Text: Sant Kabir (15th century (d. 1518))
Meanings and summaries are editorial, written for this library from the cited edition.
Text and meaning
Verse 1
ऐसी आरति त्रिभुवन तारै । तेज:पुंज तहँ प्राण उतारै ॥१॥
aisī ārati tribhuvana tārai | teja:puṃja taham̐ prāṇa utārai ||1||
Such an aarti carries the three worlds across: there, one's very life-breath is waved before the mass of light (the Divine).
Source: Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 56 (PDF p. 92), Marathi Wikisource, revision 225157, Aarti no. 15, verse 1 (book p. 56)
Verse 2
पाती पंच पुहुप करि पूजा । देव निरंजन और न दूजा ||२||
pātī paṃca puhupa kari pūjā | deva niraṃjana aura na dūjā ||2||
Make the five (senses) your leaves and flowers of worship; the God is Niranjan, the stainless one, and there is no other.
Source: Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 56 (PDF p. 92), Marathi Wikisource, revision 225157, Aarti no. 15, verse 2 (book p. 56)
Verse 3
तन मन सीस समरपन कीन्हा । प्रगट ज्योति तहँ आतम लीना ॥३॥
tana mana sīsa samarapana kīnhā | pragaṭa jyoti taham̐ ātama līnā ||3||
Body, mind and head are offered; there the self has merged into the light made manifest.
Source: Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 56 (PDF p. 92), Marathi Wikisource, revision 225157, Aarti no. 15, verse 3 (book p. 56)
Verse 4
दीपक ज्ञान सबद धुनि घंटा | परम पुरिख तहँ देव अनंता ।। ४॥
dīpaka jñāna sabada dhuni ghaṃṭā | parama purikha taham̐ deva anaṃtā || 4||
Knowledge is the lamp, the sound of the Word is the bell; there dwells the supreme Person, the infinite God.
Source: Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 56 (PDF p. 92), Marathi Wikisource, revision 225157, Aarti no. 15, verse 4 (book p. 56)
Verse 5
परम प्रकाश सकल उजियारा । कहै कबीर मैं दास तुम्हारा ।। ५॥
parama prakāśa sakala ujiyārā | kahai kabīra maiṃ dāsa tumhārā || 5||
The supreme light illumines everything. Says Kabir: I am your servant.
Source: Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 56 (PDF p. 92), Marathi Wikisource, revision 225157, Aarti no. 15, verse 5 (book p. 56)
Sources and licence
- Nityanemavali (comp. R. D. Ranade), 12th ed., Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum, 1987, p. 56 (PDF p. 92), Marathi Wikisource, revision 225157. CC BY-SA 4.0 (edition relicensed by its publisher, Wikimedia VRT ticket 2023060210002841; Marathi Wikisource transcription)
The text is copied character for character from the Marathi Wikisource transcription of "Nityanemavali" (compiled by Gurudev R. D. Ranade; 12th edition, 1987, Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Belgaum), which its publisher has released under CC BY-SA 4.0. The printed spelling is kept as is. This is the book's aarti no. 15 (p. 56), added in the 8th edition (1960). Its language is Kabir's old Hindi (Sant bhasha), not Marathi. The printed page wraps lines mid-phrase, so its line breaks are not kept; the words and marks are unchanged, including the colon in "तेज:पुंज". IAST is generated by a fixed rule and writes every inherent "a"; it is not a pronunciation guide.